Deep Focus: Temperature Check – Open Call for Artists and Moving Image Works

Are you an artist working with film, video or moving image? Deep Focus is inviting artists and collectives worldwide to submit work for Temperature Check, an open-call screening opportunity exploring energy, movement and exchange.

Themed around the concepts of Heat, Cold and Thermal Equilibrium, the open call welcomes moving image works that explore energy, its use and its effects. This could include themes of movement, presence and abundance through Heat; absence, stillness and refusal through Cold; or the ways bodies connect and adjust their energy through Thermal Equilibrium. Interpretations can be broad, and submissions need only relate loosely to the themes.

The opportunity is open to artists internationally, with no restrictions on experience or location. Each artist may submit one completed film, with a maximum duration of 10 minutes. Short films, video works and excerpts are particularly encouraged, and previously screened work is also eligible. There is no submission fee.

Selected works will be screened at RHB Cinema, Goldsmiths, London, on 20 January, 19 February and 19 March 2027, from 7pm to 9pm, with each screening followed by a Q&A. Priority will be given to artists who can attend in person. As Deep Focus is a volunteer-run, unfunded project, travel and accommodation expenses cannot be covered, although letters of support may be available to help shortlisted artists apply for travel funding.

Submissions must be made via CuratorSpace by midnight on 15 November 2026.

If you have a short moving image work that responds to questions of energy, connection or stillness, this is an opportunity to share it with an audience and be part of the Temperature Check screening programme.