About the festival Program Cafa collaboration Contact & Links Press Open Call for Entry The HIV Awareness One Minutes A collaboration between Borderline, UNESCO and the One Minute Foundation Good art is never connected from its social environment, or to put it another way: art has the extraordinary capacity to reflect on the societies we are living in, and the real-life issues and problems we are confronted with. This does not imply that artists are obliged to take a stand or to display an explicit point of view, but refers to the responsibility they have to open discussion, to rise awareness on exactly those things we tend to turn away from. To counter taboos, to initiate dialogue we find difficult to engage on. It is exactly in this spirit that we have designed the HIV awareness project. For the Borderline video art festival, we commission three established Chinese video artists,in close collaboration with UNESCO and the One Minute Foundation, to create a one minute film on HIV awareness. These one minute shorts will be screened during the festival and will be put on the Borderline website. They will also be shown before every evening screening of national and international shortfilms. This is the start of a long-term collaboration on HIV awareness with The One Minute Foundation and UNESCO. Through a nation-wide Call for Entry, artists are invited to send in One Minute Films dealing with the topic. UNESCO, the One Minute Foundation and Borderline will select the best of them and use them for events and campaigns on HIV/aids. For more information mail info@borderlinefestival.org Project Co-ordinators: Pauline Doutreluingne pauline@borderlinefestival.org Natalie Sun natalie@platformchina.org View flyer Partners