DARK SIDE OF ANALOGUE FILM: INDEPENDENT FILM LABORATORIES /
DARK SIDE OF ANALOGUE FILM: INDEPENDENT FILM LABORATORIES /
foto: Klubvizija
Dark Side of Analogue Film: Independent Film Laboratories
Panel Discussion
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.
Panellists: Rok Nagode, Neža Knez, Peter Fettich
Moderated by Nadja Šičarov.
Free tickets will be available one hour before the event.
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.
Peter Fettich (1979, Ljubljana) has engaged in photography since 2009. At first, as a professional commercial and sports photographer. In 2011, he began studying Photography at the Faculty of Applied Sciences in Ljubljana (VIST), where his approach to photography transformed from a primarily photojournalistic to a documentary/auteur one and he began his active path in the darkroom. In 2019, he completed a semester at Vraa Hojskole (Denmark), where he gained experience in "alternative" photographic techniques under the mentorship of Emil Schild. In 2020, he co-founded the Artard Institute, within which the Kela production space operates and develops. He is actively engaged in developing photos, self-publishing and conducting photo workshops. His work has been presented at solo and group exhibitions in Slovenia and abroad.
After finishing her undergraduate studies in Conservation and Restoration of Fine Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Ljubljana, Nadja Šičarov (Ljubljana, 1992) obtained her MA in Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image at the University of Amsterdam. She further developed her interest in the archiving and restoring of experimental and amateur cinema through her work at the Slovenian Cinematheque between 2017 and 2019, where she set up its home movie collection. Between 2019 and 2022, she worked as a restorer at the Austrian Film Museum in Vienna, were she was also a co-coordinator of the international project Share That Knowledge: Finding Strategies for Passing on Knowledge Across Generations of Archivists. She currently lives between Ljubljana and Belgrade and works as a freelance conservator-restorer and archivist.
Rok Kajzer Nagode (1992) is a director of photography, who graduated in 2014 by his work on the short fiction film The Springtime Sleep. In 2018, he obtained his MA from AGRFT with his master's thesis Researching, Restoring, Digitising and Revitalising Film Heritage. Since obtaining the status of a self-employed person in culture in 2019, he has worked on several short, feature and documentary films, TV series and videos. For his work during his studies, he received two Prešeren Awards for Students from AGRFT, while for the student films C.H.A.O.S. and What Remains and the music video for Koala Voice's Vertigo, he received the IRIS Awards conferred by the Slovene Association of Cinematographers. He is a member of the European Film Academy, Slovene Association of Cinematographers and the IMAGO Film Preservation and Restoration Committee. He is Assistant Professor of Film and Television Picture at AGRFT and is writing his PhD thesis in Film and Television Studies on the datafication of film heritage. He is also completing his MA in Art History at the Faculty of Arts.
Hrvoje Spudić (1987, Zagreb) graduated in 2015 from the Faculty of Architecture, where he is employed as an assistant for Drawing and Plastic Design. In his work, he explores the techniques and technology of printing, photography and film and the phenomena of light and sound. He is a member of the experimental laboratory Klubvizija, where he experiments with images and sound on 16mm film. His work has been shown at solo and group exhibitions at the Miroslav Kraljević Gallery in Zagreb (Sound Reproduction Experiment, Rotoprojector), the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka (translations 1 with Sara Salamon), 3m3 gallery in Belgrade (1m2 of light), the Sound Art Incubator festival (Light Analysis, Soft Objects with Sara Salamon), the EMAF festival in Vienna (1m2 of light) and the Avant festival in Karlstad in Sweden (Rotoprojector 2). In 2020, he received the Young Artist Award for the visual identity of the 30th Zagreb Music Biennale at the 55th Zagreb Salon (together with Sven Sorić, Sara Salamon and Tin Dožić). In 2020, he and Sara Salamon received Youth Salon’s “Vladimir Dodig Trokut, Iva Vraneković – Artist to Artist” award for Soft Objects.