Four festival days challenge the horizon of the domesticated gaze: with the filmmaker in focus, the experimental animator Gudrun Krebitz, we will explore the polyphonic layering of intimate cinematic landscapes; we will get to know the blazing Pan-American experimental production through two programmes selected by the guest curator Jean-Jacques Martinod, while this year’s new section Vistas brings together what the programme team has gleaned from the wide field of current practices. With the New Light programme we would like to emphasise the significance of preserving Slovenian heritage, but we at the same time also unreservedly think about the future: during the festival, the interactive VR installation Journey Into the Universe of Consciousness will test the limits of the gaze. In addition to Neža Knez’s workshop and exhibition, the Czech artist Jan Kulka will provide a fitting closing of the festival with his AV performance.
Vive le expérimental!
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SCCA PROJECT ROOM, Metelkova 6, Ljubljana
Friday – Sunday, 5 – 7 May A Picture of the Materiality of Light and the Toxins of Plants, workshop by Neža Knez
Thursday, 11 May 6 pm — Neža Knez: Analogue Diffractions #1, exhibition opening (on view until 18 May, every day from noon to 5 pm)*
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SLOVENIAN CINEMATHEQUE, Miklošičeva 28, Ljubljana
Thursday, 11 May 7.30 pm — VR Point: Journey Into the Universe of Consciousness, presentation of the interactive multimedia VR installation (authors RAJ X TOT and Antonio Giacomin)* 9 pm — Author in Focus: Gudrun Krebitz, screening and artist Q&A
Friday, 12 May 5 pm — A Picture of the Materiality of Light and the Toxins of Plants, presentation of the workshop* 7 pm — Everything Moves: New Light from the Avant-garde Collections of the Slovenian Cinematheque, screening and talk with Tone Rački 9 pm — Salts and Grounds. Programme of Pan-American Cinema I: Living Scents, screening and introduction by the curator Jean-Jacques Martinod
Saturday, 13 May 5 pm — Analogue Formats in the Digital Environment, panel discussion* 7 pm — Salts and Grounds. Programme of Pan-American Cinema II: Please an Abyss, screening and introduction by the curator Jean-Jacques Martinod 9 pm — Vistas I, curated by the festival programme team
Sunday, 14 May 7 pm — Jan Kulka, film performance 9 pm — Vistas II, curated by the festival programme team
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VR POINT Thursday, 11 May, 7.30 pm (presentation) Friday – Sunday, 12 – 14 May, from 2 pm to 7 pm RAJ X TOT and Antonio Giacomin: Journey Into the Universe of Consciousness, museum lecture room of the Slovenian Cinematheque during the festival hours, individual view with VR glasses*
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