Calling All Women Everywhere: Overheated Symphony is an all-women directed interactive mobile phone film. This cinematic symphony of women’s voices from around the world is part of the Birds Eye View film festival taking place in London next month which showcases the work of female film-makers. Women across the world are being asked to make a short film -a “quick flick” - between 40 seconds and four minutes long on a mobile phone and then send it via the internet to a London-based film director who will edit all together.

“If it’s hot, we’d like to see it,” the project’s Web site declares: “Ladies, wherever you are, whoever you are, we want you to join in.” The inspiration for Overheated Symphony was the 1927 film by German filmmaker Walter Ruttmann called “Berlin - Symphony of a Great City,” which used a montage of still pictures from many sources to document city life.

Rachel Millward, director of the Birds Eye View festival, which is now in its third year, says via Reuters the film is as much about new technology as it is about women and heat … Making a film from all these female voices around the world is quite a beautiful thing, but also it’s about shooting down the idea that women are not up to date with technology.”

Contributors are being asked on www.birds-eye-view.co.uk to upload their cinematic efforts onto the festival’s own YouTube channel to be edited.

LIVE EDIT

On Sunday March 9th, between 12noon and 5pm, celebrated artist and film director Sarah Turner (see also her feature screening of Ecology at the festival) and sound designer Annabelle Pangborn will use the structure of a symphony to edit your work. Films submitted by women from around the world will be sampled into one fiery flick, LIVE in London, in the ICA bar, and later published on this website and on youtube.

DEADLINE

Films must be submitted by Sunday 2nd March.

UPLOAD

Once you’ve completed your phone-film please follow instructions (here) and upload it to www.youtube.com with the tag: OVERHEATED SYMPHONY, being sure to put your name and contact information in the descriptions box so that we can credit you and keep in touch. [blogged by Ilari Valbonesi on Ecopolis]