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MISSION STATEMENT
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VAR.tv is an experimental video zine/web tv station designed for New Orleans based artists, performers, musicians, writers, poets, and filmmakers to share work with each other as much as with an audience. VAR takes it's name from the anacronym for Volt-ampere Reactive — the reactive power in AC systems referred to as "imaginary" power that does "no real work" but is still required for magnetic and electrical systems to function and as such seems like an appropriate metaphor for the current role of artists, especially those with no platform, in our current American culture. Filmmakers are facing steeper and steeper obstacles to making and showing their work due to the monopolization of media, and Video Artists are often relegated to dark gallery corners in spaces not ideal for multimedia work. Musicians make videos that get lost in Vimeo and Youtube algorithms. DIY writers and performers on the margins have little to no access to creators that could benefit from their POV. VAR.tv aims to fill the vacuum and close the gap between "professional" filmmaking that insists on the dialectic of "narrative vs documentary", and DIY self taught artists who make art without serving the agenda of executive boards. VAR.tv's only agenda is to counteract corporate and fascist media by inviting others to demonstrate their POV. Join us. Check out the CONTRIBUTE page if you have something you'd like to broadcast, or SIGN UP to watch.
CONTRIBUTE
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VAR.tv invites any New Orleans based artist working in time based visual media to submit, as long as the work has no other distribution platforms or conflict of interest. Vertical or horizontal, we don't care. VAR.tv uses it's own standalone server, no third party streaming through vimeo/youtube etc, it's just us, streaming weird stuff from this url. If you're interested in joining the broadcast, here is a loose idea of the broadcast categories we are interested in, but also, rules are made to be broken. If you want to be involved, SUBMIT YOUR WORK HERE.

CATEGORIES:
Narrative— Short films — 20 minute max recommended. If you have a feature project sitting on a hard drive, lets talk!
Documentary— No time constraints.
Experimental Video art— No time constraints, but loops need to be 10 minutes or less.
Music / Performance Videos— If you are a musician or performer living in New Orleans, please send us your stuff.
Exquisite Corpse ("B-Roll" and Audio Tracks)— We will have a special segment where we mash up B Roll submissions with Audio track submissions. Audio Tracks include but are not limited to Music, Spoken word poetry, prose, stories, found city sounds etc. B-roll means we want the random weird cool footage of the city you have that has no context — send it in. Please note that B-roll featuring an individual or individuals faces needs written permission for us to use it.
Animation— Also welcome.
Other— Do you have a weird thing? We like weird.
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VARTELE.VISION IS FREE TO CONTRIBUTORS.
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