Got a rejection letter from the London Film and Video Development Agency today. No completion funds. Not enough information provided in this criteria I'm told.
a) We define artists' film and video as relating to artists working in the context of contemporary fine art moving image practice and producing work intended for exhibition in galleries, festivals, specialist venues and as site specific installations.
What a waste of time it is dealing with the establishment. I could have made a short for the amount of effort that goes into these funding proposals.
Of course, same evening I get a request from an Italian university
Dear Michela Ledwige,
Your name was provided as a strong and important reference in the framework of collaboration programs that see our University active in the fields of scientific visualization, digital art and movie production....
Can't win.... is this art or not? I don't care, I just want to complete the project as intended and move on.
This is going to make it so much harder to complete VFX and pretty much blows our chances of getting something to Cannes by April 5th. So disappointing but that's the game. Those who do, make stuff. Those who don't, sit on funding panels.
There you go. I feel better now. My moment of self-pity has passed. Tomorrow we're going to try and get a 3D scan of a nanobat! {:-)