Festival Guests
Gudrun Krebitz
Gudrun Krebitz was born in 1983 in Graz. She is an artist and filmmaker whose work focuses on experimental animation, installation, and single image drawing. Her drawings, narrative-based short films, and installations have been screened and presented at exhibition spaces and film festivals worldwide, including the Berlinische Galerie, ICA London, Museum of Contemporary Art Frankfurt, MUMOK Vienna, London Short Film Festival, International Film Festival Oberhausen, Annecy International Animated Film Festival and the American Documentary film festival Palm Springs. Her films have won main awards including the Grand Prix at Tampere, the Jury Prize at Short Film Festival Hamburg, the Golden Horseman at Filmfest Dresden as well as Jury Prizes at the Poetry Film Festivals in Berlin and Vienna. She received the Prize for an Experimental Animation by the “Künstlerhaus Wien/ Artist House Vienna” for EXOMOON and was a holder of scholarships by the German Academic Exchange Programme, the Film/ Video Artist Programme of the Berlin Senate as well as the Stiftung Kunstfonds- Art Foundation. She graduated from the Royal College of Art in London in 2015 and studied Animation at the University of Film and Television in Potsdam-Babelsberg. Krebitz currently lives and works in Berlin. (Photo: sixpackfilm)
Jean-Jacques Martinod
Jean-Jacques Martinod is an Ecuadorian filmmaker, radio DJ & media artist. Inhabiting living locales as deterritorialized landscapes, his practice consistently considers the interrelations inherent in fluctuating psychic geographies and expanded human noesis. His works endeavor to interrogate sensory cognition in relation to the natural world, potential planes and parapoetic territories, by interlacing ethnofiction with artisanal experimental film techniques.
His work has earned awards and screened in museums, galleries, film festivals and independent artist-led spaces and co-ops, including The Museum of the Moving Image, Cinemateca Nacional del Ecuador, Cinemateca do MAM Rio de Janeiro, Cinemateca de Bogotá, Centre PHI Montreal, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Nomadica at LABA, Sheffield Doc/Fest, FIDMarseille, Mar del Plata, DocumentaMadrid, European Media Arts Festival, 25FPS, Images Festival, Frontera Sur, Camden International Film Festival, Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Fracto Experimental Film Encounter, Experiments in Cinema, Encuentros Cinematográficos Cámara Lúcida, among many others. (Photo: personal archive)
Neža Knez
Neža Knez (1990) completed her bachelor’s and master’s studies in sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design (ALUO) in Ljubljana. She participated in the international WHW Academy in Zagreb, where she also attended the documentary and experimental film school RESTART. Neža Knez is a recipient of various awards: the recognition (2012) and award (2014) for outstanding academic achievements at ALUO in Ljubljana, the award for an innovative approach to printmaking Zlata preša (2015), the Prešeren Prize for Students for outstanding academic achievements (University of Ljubljana, 2015). For her master’s thesis, she received the highest distinction – summa cum laude (2017). In 2017, she participated in the Youth Biennale in Tirana. In 2018, she received the OHO Award and participated in a two-month residency at Residency Unlimited in New York. In 2021, she received a work scholarship from the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia. Neža Knez has shown her work at numerous solo and group exhibitions, screenings and performances. She lives between Ljubljana and Zagreb. (Photo: Sanja Bistričić)
RAJ X TOT
RAJ PER TOT, in graphical form RAJ X TOT, is an audiovisual artist and architect born as Rajko Pertot in Trieste where he studied violin and music that later evolved into electronic composition in London. He finished the University of Architecture in Ljubljana and got his professional habilitation at the IUAV University in Venice. He is the Creative Coordinator of the Institute for Audiovisual and Performing Arts IND – Intimate Notions’ Dream based in Ljubljana. For more than 30 years Raj Per Tot has been carrying out his professional and artistic career in different areas of fine arts, architecture, set design and teaching. Lately he oriented his artistic expression in audiovisual installations, concerts and performances creating a space of images and light with the vibration of the body, mind, sound and voice. (Photo: Jernej Čampelj)
Antonio Giacomin aka. fluido
Antonio Giacomin aka. fluido was born in 1974 in Trieste. As a creative technologist and video designed started to experiment with immersive media in 2015 working on various XR projects with his company fluido.it. In 2016 became the curator for the VR section at the Trieste Film Festival and started to collaborate with Casa del Cinema in Trieste organizing events like workshops and panel on XR culture. Since 2018 is guest curator for VR content at FeKK in Ljubljana (Slovenia) and ShorTS Festival. In 2017 he was creative producer and creative technologist for the project “In the Cave”, created during the Biennale College VR program and presented at the 75th Venice Film Festival in Venice VR category. He is also a blogger and a podcaster. (Photo: Lara Perentin)
Jan Kulka
Jan Kulka is a Prague-based experimental filmmaker and a graduate of Editing department at the FAMU. His primary focus is the invention of special projection apparatuses for live performances. Rather than telling a story, he tries to target the senses of each spectator directly with light and sound to reveal some of the foundations of our perception. (Photo: personal archive)
Anže Peršin
Anže Peršin is a film producer with many years of experience in film. He had worked on commercial film production throughout Southern Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, and owned a commercial production company in Lisbon. Since 2015, he has been developing Stenar Projects, a production platform for the artists’ moving image, based in Portugal. Anže is a member of Associação de Produtores de Cinema e Audiovisual in Portugal and a 2019 Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program Grantee.
Tone Rački
Academic painter Tone Rački graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana in 1973. He also studied at the Pedagogical Academy under Prof. Zoran Didko, where he became interested in the methods of art education, which defined his further work. He is involved in pedagogical work in the field of visual media: film, video, animation, comics and fine arts. He is particularly interested in methods of teaching art skills. He develops and introduces systems of practical exercises for acquiring skills in particular fields of art. The results of his pedagogical work are published in numerous articles and independent publications.
Vladislav Knežević
Vladislav Knežević (Zagreb, 1967) is a media artist and director. He studied film and TV directing at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb and De Vrije Academie in The Hague. He primarily focuses on audiovisual research and creates using filmed video materials, digital photography, micro-animation, stereoscopic 3D technique and generative electronic sound in an attempt to create a new film media watching experience. His interests revolve around concepts referring to the marginal areas of realistic categories, the experience of new media images, digital aesthetic, utilitarian/fantastic constructs and the consequences of technological-scientific research on human experience. He professionally pursues TV directing, working with multiple cameras, and as a director he made almost 2000 TV shows and documentary projects between 1994 and 2017 (Drugi format, Modul 8, Briljanteen, Animatik, Videodrom, Nove kolekcije, DM talks to DM, Nove tendencije, Crna kutija). Since 1989 he has been making experimental and art films, screened at over 200 festivals and exhibitions in Europe, USA, Australia, Japan, Brazil. Winner of two Oktavijan Awards (Arheo 29, 2010, and A.D.A.M., 2015). Vladislav took part in HT Contemporary Art Award exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb in 2016, 2018 and 2019. A co-founder and curator of the Festival 25 FPS (2005–2009) and in 2017 a founder of collaborative media project Sonvoyce on Source (CD edition Readouts, 2018, Consequent Recordings). In the early 1990s he worked on several music videos shown on TV channels such as MTV Europe, Viva, MCM, with the FX Interzone collective.
Ivonne Sheen
Ivonne Sheen is an audiovisual artist, film critic and teacher. Her work and writings mainly relate to experimental audiovisual expressions, such as poetic and political exercises. She writes for the online magazine Desistfilm. She co-directs "Taller Helios", through which she has taught workshops on experimental photographic techniques and artisan cinema in Peru. Ivonne Sheens short film “Con cierto Animal” (2018) has been screened internationally at various festivals and experimental film exhibitions.
Martin Baus
Filmmaker, sound artist, and researcher. Graduate in Social Sciences with a major in Film Aesthetics and Universal Literature (Catholic University of Chile), and Master's degree in LAV: Audiovisual Laboratory of Creation and Contemporary Practices (Madrid). Member of the CEIS8 collective of exploration and experimentation with film formats and photochemical processes, and collaborator of the film magazine laFuga.cl. He currently lives in Ecuador where he co-directs the film and cartography research group Guayaquil Analógico, and the meeting Rialécticas: Jornadas cinematográficas de Guayaquil. His artistic work explores the relationship between history, materialism, and perception, with a special interest in sound experimentation and working with film and textual archives.