Croatia's 25FPS Experimental Film and Video Festival reaches its seventh edition this year (Zagreb, September 20-25). During its six days, the festival will present over seventy short films, features and performances. This year's jury, formed by Tanja Vrvilo (Croatia), Tina Frank (Austria) and Ben Russell (USA), will have to select the winners from the 33 works in the competitive section. Each member of the jury, as in previous years, will also present a programme of short films curated by them.
The section 'Focus on Croatia' will present a selection of recent film and video works from the Balkan country, including the latest pieces by Ivan Faktor, Ana Hušman or Dalibor Baric. The festival keeps a special attention to expanded cinema, with the seminal Light describing a cone by Anthony McCall and live performances by Paul Clipson & Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, Greg Pope & Gert-Jan Prins and Ben Russell.
25FPS International Experimental Film and Video Festival
September 20th-25th, 2011, Zagreb
Tuesday September 20th, 20h, Kino Student Center
Opening Ceremony
Competition 1: Not in a million years!
- Versions (Oliver Laric, 2010, HDCAM, 9')
- The External World (David O'Reilly, 2010, Digibeta, 15')
- A Film That Cleans Your Eyes (Peter Miller, 2011, 16 mm, 3'30'')
- Magic for Beginners (Jesse McLean, 2010, Beta SP, 20')
- A Time Shared Unlimited (Zachary Epcar, 2010, Digibeta, 9'58'')
- IT, HEAT, HIT (Laure Prouvost, 2010, Digibeta, 6')
Tuesday September 20th, 23h, Theatre &TD – Small Venue
Expanded Cinema I
- Line Describing a Cone (Anthony McCall, 1973, 16 mm, 30')
16 mm film/light installation/light sculpture.
Wednesday September 21st, 16h, Kino Student Center
Kino 16 I
- Forms Are Not Self-Subsistent Substances (Samantha Rebello, 2010, 16 mm, 22')
- Burning Palace (Mara Mattuschka & Chris Haring, 2009, 35 mm, 32')
The substance perversion or an erotic night in a Burning Palace Hotel. Women's choice!
Wednesday September 21st, 18h, Kino Student Center
Kino 16 II
- Slow Action (Ben Rivers, 2010, 16 mm, 45')
Post-apocalyptic SF between documentary, ethnographic study and fiction.
Wednesday September 21st, 20h, Kino Student Center
Competition 2: Reflection Road
- Did I? (Hiraki Sawa, 2011, HDCAM, 9'31'')
- Long Shadows (Joshua Bonnetta, 2009, 35 mm, 12')
- Llora Cuando Te Pase (Laida Lertxundi, 2010, 16 mm, 14')
- Reflect (Tsen-Chu Hsu, 2010, 16 mm, 3'30'')
- On the Way to the Sea (Tao Gu, 2010, Digibeta, 19'37'')
- Endeavour (Johann Lurf, 2010, Digibeta, 16')
Wednesday September 21st, 22h, Kino Student Center
Jury’s choice - Tanja Vrvilo - A short organum for the film eye
- Tsuburekakatta migime no tame ni (Toshio Matsumoto, 1968, 3 x 16 mm, 13')
- Les photos d'Alix (Jean Eustache, 1980, 35 mm, 19')
- Le genou d'Artémide (Jean-Marie Straub, 2007, 35 mm, 26')
- Halcion (Dietmar Brehm, 2007, 16 mm, 20')
A short organum for… the crushed, the crazy, the lonely, the reflexive, the one which observes us...
Thursday September 22nd, 16h, Kino Student Center
Kino 16 III
- Because We Are Visual (Olivia Rochette & Gerard-Jan Claes, 2010, Digibeta, 47')
The world of public video journals in a 21st century found-footage capsule.
Thursday September 22nd, 18h, Kino Student Center
Jury’s choice - Tina Frank - Graphic movies
- Stuck in a Groove (Clemens Kogler, 2010, Beta SP, 4'05'')
- Machination 84 (Lia, 2010, Beta SP, 5'43'')
- Color Flight (Len Lye, 1938, 16 mm, 4')
- Poemfield No. 2 (Stan VanDerBeek, 1966, 16 mm, 5'40'')
- Calculated Movements (Larry Cuba, 1985, 16 mm, 6'10'')
- Vergence (Tina Frank & Florian Hecker, 2010, HDCAM, 6'40'')
- Synchromy (Norman McLaren, 1971, 35 mm, 7'28'')
- Fuji (Robert Breer, 1974, 16 mm, 9')
- Spiral PTL (Dan Sandin, 1980, Beta SP, 7')
Do you speak the language? Zgrass, Beflix, Sandin I.P., Phonovideo and few more lovely graphic dialects!
Thursday September 22nd, 20h, Kino Student Center
Competition 3: Instructions for a traveloguer
- Oh (Anouk De Clercq, 2010, HDCAM, 8')
- Rihla (Gerbrand Burger, 2009, HDCAM, 10'40'')
- Jan Villa (Natasha Mendonca, 2010, HDCAM, 20')
- Planet Z (Momoko Seto, 2011, 35 mm, 9'30'')
- Un luogo a venire (Flatform, 2011, Digibeta, 7'30'')
- Travelogue (Jani Ruscica, 2010, Digibeta, 8')
- La linea generale (Oleg Tcherny, 2010, HDCAM, 16')
Thursday September 22nd, 22h, Theatre &TD
Expanded Cinema II
- Sound/Film Performance (Paul Clipson & Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, Super 8 mm, 40')
Super 8 mm film performance with live sound.
Friday September 23rd, 16h, Kino Student Center
Kino 16 IV
- Why Colonel Bunny Was Killed (Miranda Pennell, 2010, HDCAM, 28')
- Domashnyee Kino (John Price, 2010, 35 mm, 27')
Old colonial life in India meets the speckled study of childhood in today's Canada. Family stories.
Friday September 23rd, 18h, Kino Student Center
Jury’s choice - Ben Russell - Vision quest
- The Visitation (Nathaniel Dorsky, 2002, 16 mm, 18')
- My Name is Oona (Gunvor Nelson, 1969, 16 mm, 10')
- Children's Magical Death (Timothy Asch & Napoleon Chagnon, 1974, 16 mm, 7')
- Paranoia Trilogy Part One: The Chemical Bath (Xander Marro, 2001, 16 mm, 6')
- Le spectre rouge (Segundo de Chomon & Ferdinand Zecca, 1907, 16 mm, 9')
- Invocation of My Demon Brother (Kenneth Anger, 1969, 16 mm, 12')
- Careless Reef 4: Marsa Abu Galawa (Gerard Holthuis, 2004, 35 mm, 13')
- Trypps #7 (Badlands) (Ben Russell, 2010, HDCAM, 10')
…Vision, the primary vehicle for the ingestion of that psychotropic substance we call cinema…
Friday September 23rd, 20h, Kino Student Center
Competition 4: Roles
- Manque de preuves (Hayoun Kwon, 2011, Digibeta, 9')
- Hotel - serie (Benjamin Nuel, 2009, Beta SP, 10')
- Sans-titre (Neil Beloufa, 2010, Beta SP, 15')
- K14 (Zlatko Kopljar, 2010, HDCAM, 12'05'')
- Players (Pilvi Takala, 2010, Digibeta, 7'50'')
- Stardust (Nicolas Provost, 2010, HDCAM, 20')
- These Hammers Don't Hurt Us (Michael Robinson, 2010, Digibeta, 13')
- 3 Minute Pop Song After Notions (Paul Abbott, 2011, Digibeta, 8'42'')
Friday September 23rd, 22h, Theatre &TD
Expanded Cinema III
- The Black and The White Gods (Ben Russell, 2008, 2 x 16 mm, 25')
Double 16 mm projection and light-sensitive audio circuits.
Saturday September 24th, 16h, Kino Student Center
Kino 16 V
- The Return (Nathaniel Dorsky, 2011, 16 mm, 27')
- Get Out of The Car (Thom Andersen, 2010, 16 mm, 34')
Two experienced film masters from the West Coast: Devotional Cinema at its finest!
Saturday September 24th, 18h, Kino Student Center
Focus on Croatia
- Pustara (Ivan Faktor, 2010, Digibeta, 26')
- Nogomet (Ana Hušman, 2011, Digibeta, 14'45'')
- The Spectres of Veronica (Dalibor Baric, 2011, Digibeta, 7'44'')
- Violence expérimentale (Vladimir Kanic, 2010, HDCAM, 7'45'')
- Oio (Josip Šcurec, 2011, 16 mm, 4')
Experimental film the Croatian way.
Saturday September 24th, 20h, Kino Student Center
Competition 5: The shutter inside
- Curious Light (Charlotte Pryce, 2011, 16 mm, 4')
- Ouverture (Christopher Becks, 2010, 35 mm, 5')
- Emaki/Light (Takashi Makino & Takashi Ishida, 2011, HDCAM, 17')
- Compline (Nathaniel Dorsky, 2009, 16 mm, 19')
- Shutter (Alexi Manis, 2009, 16 mm, 8')
- The Achromatic Island (Sofie Thorsen, 2010, HDCAM, 15')
Saturday September 24th, 22h, Theatre &TD
Expanded Cinema IV
- Light Trap (Greg Pope & Gert-Jan Prins, 2007, 4 x 16 mm, 40')
4 x 16 mm projectors performance with live sound.
Sunday September 25th, 18h, Kino Student Center
Best of 2011
Screening of awarded films @ 7th 25 FPS