Preferably while in both comfortable and uncomfortable states of being — mind and physical. Stream the archive while you cook beige food in a disgusting kitchen because you haven’t taken the trash out in 2 weeks because you don’t have a trash can. Project the archive onto a wall with a projector you stole from your work. Show your Tinder date the weather channel. Laugh at the content, the format, the audacity. Distort the picture to make it yours using the video mixer. Record your distortion. Distort your distortion. Understand that nothing is perfect unless you think it is. Make the Archive yours first by exploiting it, warping it, and discovering what is there to be found.

Do not send us a video shot on your iPhone 18, 4K Ultra Quality RED HD video camera that you got “for a good price” at FotoŠkoda. Throw a computer at a wall, cradle a DVD, massage the hinges of a VHS cassette. Lend yourself to the imperfection of the imperfect world. Send us films from Kačerov, Černý Most, your neighbour’s wedding — wherever a poetry reading is happening. And Žižkov, anything Žižkov. Work with others in the network. Film badly, poorly, all the way zoomed in and set it to a soundtrack of a blender while your Tinder date reads their grocery list. We are not being difficult. Send good films, instead, to YouTube and Instagram and TikTok so they can monetise it and profit off it by feeding it to its algorithm where it spits it out in a stranger’s feed. They love that shit.

We want to ensure that those who submit get the idea of the Archive and the collective (if you haven’t noticed). We allow all users who have an account on the Archive to submit.

• Supporters can submit, but the work must be in collaboration with a Verified Poet — someone already listed in the Poet Directory. Tag them in the submission field; the field searches the Directory, so the spelling matches the record.
• Verified Poets can submit work of themselves or from their own direction — but are always encouraged to collaborate with other poets in the network.

The title of the work, a description, the associated poets, and why you think the film fits O:P:TV. If you have any questions, shoot us an email and we’ll take it from there.

The work stays yours. Submitting transfers nothing. What you give us, if we accept it, is permission — a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to preserve, show, stream and distribute the video as part of the archive, including on Archive.org under the OBJECT:PARADISE label, with credit to you and to the poets you tag. You stay free to show, sell or license it anywhere else.

That licence has to be permanent, because Archive.org is. Once an item is up there it cannot be withdrawn, so we cannot honestly offer you a revocable one. We can and will take a video off objectparadise.com on request.

What you’re confirming when you tick the boxes: that the footage is yours, that any music in it is yours or cleared for this use, that no third party’s work is in it without permission, and that everyone recognisable has agreed to appear in a permanent public archive. Music is where this usually goes wrong — a commercial track on a live recording is not cleared just because the gig happened. If a rights problem surfaces later, tell us and we’ll pull it from this site the same day; Archive.org we cannot undo.

We know. Poetry happens. But Archive.org is a public library and the archive is read by people at work, in schools, and by our own grandmothers — so keep explicit material out of it where you can, and flag it in your note where you can’t.

The link, what you write below and the name and address on your account go into our review queue and stay there as the record of the submission — accepted or not. If we take it, the video is credited to the poets you tag, and it joins the Directory, the Network Map and the search index through those credits, which is how anybody finds anything here. Full terms in the Privacy, Archival & Community Policy.

Google Drive, Dropbox, WeTransfer, Nextcloud, a plain https link to the file: all fine. Not YouTube, and not Instagram, TikTok or Vimeo — we need the master, not a re-encode of a re-encode, and we are not building this archive out of other people’s players. Leave sharing set so anyone with the link can download, and leave it up until you hear from us.