4th International festival of experimental audiovisual practices V-F-X Ljubljana
15—18 may 2024
Tomaž Grom: Don’t Think It Will Ever Pass, 25. 4.–26. 1.
Live musical accompaniment: Tomaž Grom.
Wednesday, 15 May, 9 pm
at Slovenian Cinematheque
An experimental feature-length documentary by the acknowledged musician and music producer Tomaž Grom on mourning and his daily confrontation with the painful loss of his son. Last year, it won the Vesna Award for Best Film at the Festival of Slovenian Film. It was the first time in the festival’s history that the main award went to an experimental film.
Focus: Total Refusal
Performative lecture and retrospective.
Thursday, 16 May, 7 pm and 9 pm
at Slovenian Cinematheque
The work of the Viennese collective Total Refusal is at the intersection of film, video, gaming and engaged techno philosophy. The collective will present a retrospective and a lecture-performance in collaboration with art historian Valentina Tanni.
House of Reasoned Truths
Recent Video Art from Africa
curator Kisito Assangni
Friday, 17 May, 7.30 pm
at Slovenian Cinematheque
Drawn from practices that are touched by video art and film, House of Reasoned Truths assembles works by African artists who consider community and social fabric, feminist histories, diasporic subjectivity, geopolitical and environmental forces, performativity, and power issues. Over the past three decades, video art has increasingly become an accepted genre of visual expression in the field of contemporary African art and also a veritable form of visual culture. Representing the current energy, vitality, and range of expression in Africa's thriving arts scene, House of Reasoned Truths emphasises societal discourses, especially the challenges of modern existence, and offers a new kind of gaze on narratives and spectacles of globalism.
Natural Causes?
Retrospective of Romanian Experimental Cinema
curator Călin Boto
Saturday, 18 May, 5 pm
at Slovenian Cinematheque
While enjoying its picture-perfect landscapes, Natural Causes?, a retrospective of eight Romanian experimental short films, of which seven were made during communism, asks itself about the near-death experiences of utopia, cinema, and anthropocentric thought.
Kino-uho/Vasko Pregelj: The Constants of Vanishing
Live musical accompaniment: Tine Vrabič – Nitz.
Friday, 17 May, 9 pm
at Slovenian Cinematheque
In the 1960s, Vasko Pregelj made an impressive series of graphically well thought-out, compositionally perfected, darkly grotesque and “baroquely surrealist” experimental films. The screening will be accompanied by a live electronic act by Tine Vrabič – Nitz, an established name on the Slovenian electronic and club music scene.
Vistas
Selection of films by the festival team
Friday, 17 May, 5 pm
Saturday 18 May, 7 pm
at Slovenian Cinematheque
Vistas is an international programme of short films curated by the festival’s programme team that tries to present to the public the most resounding and innovative contemporary films on the international and Slovenian experimental scenes. The programme is stylistically and thematically eclectic, while its selection process is open until the festival programme is completed as the latest film achievements are included in it. The programme’s diversity requires an in-depth introduction to the films.
What's Cooking?
Curated selection of student productions AU UNG, UL AGRFT, UL ALUO and AVA
Thursday, 16 May, 5 pm
at Slovenian Cinematheque
The student programme consists of a curated selection of the latest production in cooperation with ALUO and AGRFT, University of Ljubljana; School of Arts, University of Nova Gorica; and AVA – Academy of Visual Arts.
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Amélie Nilles Out of the Techno-Cocoon
Immersive live performance
Saturday, 18 May, 9 pm
at Kino Šiška
Amelie Nilles presents the first version of her project for V-F-X Ljubljana. She performs within a multichannel speaker system symbolizing the 'techno-cocoon', specially set up for the live performance. Organic textures, field recordings, vocals, and electronic rhythms converge to create a sonic landscape that yearns for the absent nature within urban environments. The audience is immersed within this ever-evolving environment, traversing from enchanting places to darker ones.
VR point/Line Katcho: Immortelle
A film in virtual reality (VR). Free entrance.
In Cinematheque’s café
15–18 May, 4–9 pm
A cathartic and dynamic room-scale trip into the mind of an artist in turmoil. In this immersive artwork of 12 minutes, viewers travel through different scenes and seasons that show both the soft and the fiery sides of a fighter spirit. Immortelle was adapted from Lina Katcho’s live performance, whose premiere at the 2018 MUTEK electronic music festival in Montréal was received with a standing ovation.
Dark Side of Analogue Film: Independent Film Laboratories
Wednesday, 15 May, 7pm
Panel Discussion
at Slovenian Cinematheque
A reflection on and an open conversation about the possibilities of establishing and running independent local film laboratories in Slovenia and the region, where artists can develop analogue film and photographs by joining into artist cooperatives.
Free tickets will be available one hour before the event.
The Magical World of Analogue Film
Workshop
9.–14. May
Academy of fine arts and design Ljubljana
at ALUO, Tobačna ulica 5
Wednesday, 15 May, 5pm
Čufarjeva Classroom of the Slovenian Cinematheque
What are independent film labs? What does analogue photochemical film consist of? What is the difference between the compositions of black-and-white and colour film emulsions and how do they react upon contact with various substances. An introduction to filming, various procedures of developing and editing 16mm film and operating a projector. At V-F-X Ljubljana, we are again organising a workshop on exploring analogue film led by the team of the independent film lab Klubvizija from Zagreb (𝗘𝗷𝗹𝗮 𝗞𝗼𝘃𝗮𝗰̌𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗰́ in 𝗛𝗿𝘃𝗼𝗷𝗲 𝗦𝗽𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗰́) and the visual artist Neža Knez. The participants will work in a group. The four-day workshop will take place in ALUO’s facilities at 5 Tobačna Street.