THE MAGICAL WORLD OF ANALOGUE FILM /

THE MAGICAL WORLD OF ANALOGUE FILM /

foto: Neža Knez

A public screening of film experiments created at the workshop of learning about and experimenting with analogue film in the facilities of the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, the Video, Animation and New Media Programme, in cooperation with Klubvizija from Zagreb. A discussion and evaluation in the presence of workshop participants and their mentor, visual artist Neža Knez.

The participants will work in groups and the workshop will take place over four days in the ALUO premises at Tobačna 5.

PUBLIC SCREENING AT THE V-F-X LJUBLJANA FESTIVAL
Wednesday, 15. May, 5 pm, Čufarjeva Classroom of the Slovenian Cinematheque

Free admission at the Čufarjeva Classroom of the Slovenian Cinematheque..

Workshop: The Magical World of Analogue Film

Participants:

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.

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.

Ejla Kovačević (1989) is a freelance film critic, curator and independent/experimental cinema researcher. She is a member of the curatorial team of the International Experimental Film and Video Festival 25 FPS, a selection committee member at the Belgrade-based International Analog Film Festival KINOSKOP and a film programmer at /’fu:bar/ Glitch Art Festival in Zagreb. Since 2011, she has been a member of the Zagreb-based filmlab Klubvizija, within which she has organised numerous screenings, workshops and lectures on analogue film practice. As an Erasmus + scholar, she completed a four-month internship at the filmmakers’ cooperative Light Cone in Paris, expanding her knowledge on the promotion and distribution of experimental films. Her texts have been published in various media for film and culture (Hrvatski filmski letopis, Filmoskop, a programme on the Third Channel of Croatian Radio, Vizkultura, Kulturpunkt etc.). She earned her MA in French Language from the Sorbonne Nouvelle University and her MA in Comparative Literature from the University of Zagreb.  

Supported by the Municipality of Ljubljana - Department of Culture