Fiction submissions
We accept submissions during the months of September and December. Submissions should be sent, as an attachment, to Greg Gerke. Please include a short third-person biography. The word limit for stories is 2,000 words. Any additional submission sent when the first one was not yet replied to, will be deleted.
Observations on the long take
I think capturing the sacred while simultaneously capturing the ugly reality as being flat; and that flatness can still hold things that are sacred — if that makes sense. I feel like in other films, long takes often are about bringing out the beauty in subjects, they romanticize the subject maybe. In B éla Tarr, we might say that the subjects of a lot of these long takes are not worthy of long takes. Sometimes it’s watching someone fall asleep. Or watching it rain.
Maxi Kim interviews Janice Lee on the cinema of B éla Tarr.