In recent years, audiovisual formats and techniques have exponentially increased, a reality which has led us to projects that specifically address the use of the medium as well as works which investigate the possibilities of new forms. As new technologies and skills progress, a further examination of the history of audio-visual techniques is needed, in particular those that are often abandoned before their full potential is realized. The screening series and archive also functions as a means to see how audio-visual production is used in other cultural fields (performance, architecture, dance, photography, etc.)

By holding screening in varied locations OVP is able to reach a diverse public, oftentimes one that has not been exposed to the medium before. Video art, documentaries, experimental film, film shorts, and video installations and other audio-visual productions which fall out of these prescribed categories are presented together in OVP screenings. These distinct formats are viewed outside of the traditional contexts of movie theaters, art galleries, museums and television.

Archive
OVP is assembling an audio-visual archive through the use of international open calls and project proposals by local and visiting artists, filmmakers, curators and writers. Works are selected based on quality and not an adherence to specific themes or formats. We seek to provide proof of audio-visual production’s dynamic evolution.

Selection criteria
Submitted material is divided into seven categories; the most significant examples of each will be included in the screenings and archive. The categories are: Video Art, Film Shorts, Experimental Cinema, Music Videos, Video Installations, Documentaries and works that fall out of these prescribed categories. Submissions will be evaluated based on the following criteria:

- Organic unity between the theoretical and technical
- Medium specificity
- Originality


During the screenings the chosen works may be incorporated with other material to define a given context.

Founders
Lorenzo Benedetti is an independent curator, Project Curator of Volume! contemporary art foundation/non-profit, co-curator of the Sound Art Museum, in Rome, Italy and since 2007, the exhibition curator of the MARTa Herford museum in Herford, Germany.

Sarra Brill is an AV artist/filmmaker and co-director of the New York-based art collective, Aviate.

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