Submit to Notebook’s “Exquisite Cinema”

An interactive adventure making imaginary movies, across issues, image by image.
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EXQUISITE CINEMA

We’re inviting our readers to join us on an interactive adventure. Notebook magazines Exquisite Cinema is a new collaborative feature in which we make imaginary movies together, image by image.

Please send us an original photograph (analog or digital) to propose as the opening shot to an imagined film. We’ll choose and print three of the most evocative submissions in Issue 7, setting in motion three parallel visual stories that will continue in subsequent issues.

Over time, and through an associative chain of imagery, three chimeric, evolving films-in-print will take shape by the logic of the Surrealists’ “exquisite corpse” game.

We hope that this unusual form of movie-making will be a way to bring our readers together, and, by combining contrasting ideas and images from all around the world, will enable the creation of something unexpected and new. 

Submit your photograph via this form by March 1, 2025, to allow time for the selection of images ahead of the production of Issue 7. Please review all details below.

THE DETAILS

Photographs can be analog or digital, either captured with a cellphone or camera, as long as they were created by you. Please refrain from sending AI-generated content or images that you did not create yourself.

Photographs can be in any shape, size, and aspect ratio, but landscape images are preferred. 

Images can be color or black and white.

Feel free to submit multiple entries if you wish, but images need to be sent one at a time. 

We reserve the right to select or reject at our sole discretion any images we receive for publication.

By sending an image, you agree that you alone have rights to the content created and you give us the right to publish it in Notebook magazine and/or on MUBI’s social media channels.

If you see that your image has been selected for publication, please contact us at magazine@mubi.com to receive a special gift.

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