The M17 Video Archive

Video Artists!!!!  Submit your work to The M17 Video Archive

Download  (alt-click)  : Submission Form PDF 

                                    Release Form PDF 

The M17 Video Archive is a curated collection of contemporary, single-channel video art, maintained by Clark Buckner and housed at MISSION 17 in San Francisco.  The archive provides an on-going platform for local artists and other video producers to exhibit their work, and a way for local audiences to access videos from throughout the world. 

Visitors to the gallery are invited to watch videos from the collection "on-demand."  Beginning in January, 2009, at the latest, we plan to organize programs of works drawn from the archive, which will be presented, in conjunction with our regular exhibition schedule, on a monitor at the gallery.  And, in the future, we may also draw from the archive to curate screenings at the gallery or other outlets.            

Artists and other video producers are encouraged to submit preview copies of their work for possible inclusion in the archive.

Guidelines for Submissions:

-  All submissions should be accompanied by

• Completed submission forms,

• Signed release forms.

-  Preview copies of videos should be submitted on playable DVDs, either as single works, or as compilations of several pieces distinguished as “chapters” on the disc.  If DVDs loop, please leave at least 30 seconds of black at the end of the recording.

-  The DVDs should be packaged in plastic slim line DVD cases with printed covers that include title and artist on both the binder and the front cover, along with the following information:

              a) Artists Name, Address, Contact Info

b) DVD Title        

c) Total Running Time

d) Titles, Production Dates, Running Time of Specific Works (In order as Chapters), and any other relevant information, including performance or production credits if necessary.

-  If you want your DVD returned, in the event that it is not included in the archive, please provide a self-addressed, stamped, envelope

The M17 Video Archive has been sponsored by a generous grant fromThe Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation.