OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS for 12Gates & PAAFF’s Contemporary Video Art Exhibition 2025!

The 7th iteration of the Contemporary Video Art Exhibition continues to celebrate contemporary video art—using recorded moving images— by artists from South and South-West Asia, North Africa (SSWANA), as well as artists of indentured Indian descent and their diasporas. The 7th edition of the juried show will be co-presented by Twelve Gates Arts (12G) and the Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival (PAAFF).

Film screenings will take place at the Twelve Gates Arts Gallery on Sunday, Nov 9th, 12PM-2PM and on Tuesday, Nov 11th, 6PM-8PM.

Subjects and themes for the exhibit include queer, controversial, poetic, abstract, political, philosophical, uncensored – anything that stretches beyond conventional. We look forward to producing a thought-provoking and inspiring exhibit to follow the well-received exhibits in 2015, 2016, 2019, 2022, 2023, and 2024, which drew submissions from global contemporary artists.

Submissions close on Friday, September 7th, 2025.