3rd INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF EXPERIMENTAL AUDIOVISUAL PRACTICES
11—14 May 2023
Gudrun Krebitz
Author in Focus
Thursday, 11 May, 9 pm
at Slovenian Cinematheque
The filmmaker in focus at the third edition of V-F-X Ljubljana is Gudrun Krebitz. She is an original, daring artist who has been creating a unique oeuvre for almost fifteen years. Her drawings, narrative-based short films and installations have been presented at exhibition spaces and film festivals worldwide. In her films, she animates drawings and paintings, but does not consider herself an animator. In her films, she experimentally documents her life. Gudrun is not a film director, she makes films like the rest of us breathe to survive.
Salts and Grounds
Friday, 12 May, 9 pm
Saturday, 13 May, 7 pm
at Slovenian Cinematheque
Two programs of Pan-American cinema curated by Jean-Jacques Martinod.
These two programmes strive to harness the powers of the imaginal rhythms already univocally present all over our living earthly crust. In deep mirrors, obsidian and long-forgotten sands, sleepless memory subsists. Cinema in touch with the ancestral, the horizon, and the never-ending imaginal of an unending prenatal futurity. These two programmes conjure modes of witnessing the slice of our days; enacting the unnerving and the primordial, disturbing the memories and the gestures of the deep metanoias to come one day.
Everything Moves
New Light from the Avant-garde Collections of the Slovenian Cinematheque
Friday, 12 May, 7 pm
at Slovenian Cinematheque
In 2010, the Slovenian Cinematheque began systematically creating special collections focusing on the previously overlooked history of Slovenian avantgarde and experimental cinema. Now, thirteen years later, these collections include over a hundred archived titles. In the last year, the Cinematheque has accelerated its systematic digitisation and restoration of avant-garde films. In the first part of the programme, we will present collection of experimental animated films by Tone Rački, which will be screened from 8mm prints in the presence of the filmmaker. In the second part, we will present a selection of Slovenian experimental films that the Cinematheque digitally restored in the last year.
After the screening, Matevž Jerman will talk with Tone Rački.
Vistas
Selection of the Programme Team.
Saturday, 13 May, 9 pm
Sunday, 14 May, 9 pm
at Slovenian Cinematheque
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Jan Kulka: Archeoscope
Film Performance
Sunday, 14 May, 7 pm
at Slovenian Cinematheque
New worlds of film discovered by unique projection technology: the Archeoscope is a special opto-mechanical projecting apparatus created for live film performances, invented and constructed by Czech filmmaker Jan Kulka. The Archeoscope can project all traditional film formats, but also a scope of mixed media such as bandages, Scotch tape, laces, bubble wraps – an array as broad as the imagination. The Archeoscope brings brand new possibilities and radically different ways of perceiving, understanding, and working with film material, alongside modernising creative process of the act of projection.
RAJ X TOT and Antonio Giacomin: Journey Into the Universe of Consciousness
VR Point
Presentation of the interactive multimedia VR installation.
Thursday, 11 May, 7.30 pm
at Slovenian Cinematheque
The project is an interactive multimedia art installation as well as an educational event. Visitors can place brain sensors on their foreheads and then use VR glasses to witness a three-dimensional video that tells the story of the journey of the sphinx who, as the keeper of knowledge, explores the core of its being through a 3D fight into the realm of its dreams. At the same time, the front sensor reads the brain wave frequency signals, which are then translated into a graphic image with precisely defined parameters via the (BCI) Brainwave Computer Interface, a specially adapted computer software. These video brain maps, reflect the viewers various states of meditation, concentration and movement and various cognitive, psychophysical and emotional states.
Neža Knez: Analogue Diffractions #1
Exhibition
Opening: 11 May, 6 pm
12 — 18 May, noon — 5 pm
at SCCA-Ljubljana, Metelkova 6
The exhibition represents the current phase of a long-time artistic and research project of the visual artist Neža Knez, which will eventually be condensed into an experimental film. By researching a specific space – her aunt’s former plot in the middle of a forest with abundant vegetation – and delving into childhood memories and experiences, the artist investigates the intertwining of memory and the passing of time. She experiments with materials and records the organic memory and the chemical-physical imprints that plants and objects leave on film in phytograms and photograms.
The exhibition intervenes in space with a kinetic installation of an expanded film projector. The artist focuses on experimenting with the materiality of analogue mechanisms and organic processes that evoke images, light and sound from the film strip. More than in the actual film image, the magic of film is manifested in revealing the process of the complex mechanical structure of image production.
Analogue Formats in the Digital Environment
Panel discussion
Free tickets will be available one hour before the event.
Saturday, 13 May 2023, 5 pm
at Slovenian Cinematheque
With the visiting filmmakers, we will discuss their work with analogue film material, how it defines their expression, how they understand the aesthetic and ethics of the analogue in relation to the digital and the future of such art practices.
A Picture of the Materiality of Light and the Toxins of Plants
Presentation of the Workshop
Friday, 12 May, 5 pm
at Slovenian Cinematheque
What does an analogue filmstrip look like, and what are its features? How to make a film without a camera and play it on a 16mm projector?
The workshop on experimenting with 16 mm film and phytogram-making will last three hours daily, from Friday to Sunday. It will be led by the visual artist Neža Knez, who is participating in the V-F-X Ljubljana festival with her solo exhibition Analog Diffractions #1 in the SCCA Project Room, where she will present her work using the processes that are the subject of the workshop.
The participants will each create two phytograms on photo paper and three film sequences (loops), which will be shown at a public screening in the Čufarjeva Classroom of the Slovenian Cinematheque.