OPEN CALL ICELAND
DEADLINE 19.11.2025
Fee: €5,000 + Travel & Accommodation
Deliverables: Completed SCORE / SYNC-READY RECORDING for short film
This is a paid opportunity for EU, Balkan OR CREATIVE EUROPE NATION based COMPOSERS to join a creative team exploring NEURODIVERSE identity ICELAND.
Applicants can respond using text, video or audio or a combination - use the dropdown on the form to select your prefered approach
What we are looking for
This project focuses particularly on NEURODIVERSITY and we encourage applications from COMPOSERS with lived experience.
We are a creative team of three, working on a short film, excited to contemplate ways to escape from the productivity imposed on us in the neo-liberal capitalistic system we are trapped in. The film will explore our identities as complex and multiple, challenge the definition of unproductivity, and invite the soothing nature of repetitions to resonate with our identities in the landscape, identities in the landscape, identities in the landscape.
Are sounds forming as you read this?
We want to hear them and invite you to start a dialogue with the textures and coloUrs below.
Details of this opportunity
This is an opportunity for an EU / Balkan / Creative Europe participating country based COMPOSER to create a NEW piece for the 10-15 minute film being created as the CREATIVE OUTPUT for the SECOND MCSB commission in collaboration with a film maker and WRITER in ICELAND.
Approx 10 day residency in ICELAND over two visits.
dates Are not fixed and will be agreed following selection, other than late 2025/2026 working with creative team
Film finalised by Spring 2027
Artist Fee: EUR5000 + travel expenses and accommodation
This project focuses particularly on NEURODIVERSITY, and we encourage applications from COMPOSERS with lived experience.
The application form will close on 19.11.2025 at noon GMT.
Eligible artsts must reside in and have permission to work in Creative Europe participating countries
About MCSB
Building on the 2014-2016 Creative Europe project ‘Moving Classics’ & the 2018-2022 “Sonic Flux” our new project Moving Classics: Sonic Bridges (MCSB) is a project that will be creatively inspired by the Skopje 2028 theme ‘Culture over Diversity”. Working with personal testimony, original music and AV/Film installations It will connect Writers, musicians and AV/Film artists with our production teams to explore modern European identity at the edges.
The OVERALL Project will create 10 hybrid sonic & visual experiences (art films, projections) enabling musicians and artists from all corners of Europe to work with diverse ethnographers, visual storytellers and communities along with the Project Partners and their creative teams. The films will be published by creative placemakers and presented at project partner events and our festival networks.
to apply
use the link to the form below
Whether text, video or audio your application should:
- Respond to the visual prompt above
- Outline your previous collaborative experiences
- explain why this is a good opportunity now
- Provide a biography you are happy to have shared publicly if selected
- Provide a headshot you are happy to have shared publicly if selected
- Provide a CV relevant to the opportunity
- provide examples of your previous scored and/or recorded works
- confirm your eligibility as resident in a Creative europe country
Please ensure that your Response clearly draws a link from your experience, interest and expertise to the open call. What you submit is up to you, we are very keen to hear why you want to engage with this project and collaboration.
The application form will close on 19.11.2025 at noon GMT.
For any further information on this opportunity please “ask a question”.