SMIBE, the Society for Moving Images about the Built Environment, is running their second annual short film competition on the subject of "Personal Infrastructures," exploring the "social, environmental, political, technological and economic issues that designers of the built world should be discussing."

What are issues that we should be addressing in our built world? To answer this question, SMIBE turns to our talented community of professionals, college and university students from architecture, landscape, art, industrial design, interior design, motion graphics and film to offer a challenge: produce a three minute, engaging and entertaining moving image story about "Personal Infrastructures." We are looking for stories about memorable characters and the infrastructures in their lives. Enlighten and entertain us with stories about infrastructure, either on a personal scale, public scale or somewhere in between.

The Graham Foundation in Chicago, IL and the MAK Center in Los Angeles will screen the work of ten finalists. Of these ten, two grand prize winners will be awarded $500 each and a unique SMIBE trophy.

More guidelines here.

image by Sarah Lorenzen