A Call for Entries & Exits

In 2002, Me Head will continue hosting "Show Us Your Shorts, Tulsa!" (SUYS) at the Nightingale Theatre. Although SUYS began as a monthly short film festival, we have let it run itself wild, like an espresso-injected chihuahua on hot asphalt. Now it's become a variety show that features some of the best underground performances in the midwest, complimented by short films by local and quasi-local film & video artists.

Details

We seek to give artists of all types exposure, but we must impose these following parameters:

• Video/Film artists may submit only one short film per event. The films will be judged, and the winner will be entered into a yearly competition.
• Musicians must play accoustic or a capella. We are not opposed to Electricity, but the Nightingale is, and we are in solidarity with them.
• Writers & Poets may perform readings provided their materials are original and not stolen, and that we accep them.
• Performance Artists of any and all experimental persuasions are encouraged to perform.
• Dramatists, theater companies, and actors are also encouraged to perform unique, unusual work
• We can never get enough breakdancers.
• Oh, you can sell stuff like CDs or books if you want.

Some Things You Need to Know

1. If you live in Tulsa, you know how utterly dreary the entertainment scene is. We have no interest in duplicating anything going on elsewhere. If you have a band, you may perform, but please plan on doing something radically different and mostly unelectric.

2. Your performances should consists of at least 3-4 vignettes lasting around 5-10 minutes each. This is a highly flexible format, and we are willing to bend, depending on the nature of your performance.

3. Past performances include: FUZZ (a pure improv session), NC5 (radioactive theater), Broke Theater's HORRIBLE CHILD, DAVE & CO. Barbershop Quartet, and countless others. Prizewinning filmmakers have won Cash In Hand, Johnny Cash cds, Portable Phones, Footprints in the Sand Clocks, Trickling Fountains, Irish Holiday pins and other stuff we were quite sad giving away.

5. Jared Gilbert is free, if you need a date.

7. We do not charge much and so far have not kept a dime for our efforts. In other words, if you choose to perform for us, your payment is the exposure you receive, and not any money.

How to Enter

11. Send a brief description of Your Performance by email to editor@mehead.com

13. We will seriously consider anything you wish to do. If we accept your performance, we will contact you to negotiate performance dates, and may also ask for a video tape/cd or other proof that you are who you say you are and that you do what you claim you do. Even if you are an absolute fraud, you may still be fun to watch, though.
  Oh, you can also mail proposals to the TAC Gallery, 9 East Brady, Tulsa, OK 74103.

17. Short film makers must drop their short films off at the TAC gallery. We will post the entry guidelines in January.