KINO-EAR: VASKO PREGELJ – THE CONSTANTS OF VANISHING/

KINO-EAR: VASKO PREGELJ – THE CONSTANTS OF VANISHING/

In the second half of the 1960s, Vasko Pregelj made a series of graphically well thought-out, darkly grotesque and baroquely surrealist experimental films, in which he masterfully and originally intertwined both the key tendencies of the first historical avant-gardes, directed towards expanding and researching the formal capacities of the medium, and an element – which was absolutely modern at the time – of later avant-gardes, which saw in film a lyrical possibility of most directly expressing one’s intimate emotional states.

The screening will be accompanied live by Tine Vrabič – Nitz.

Dreams

Vasko Pregelj, Slovenia (Yugoslavia), 1966, 8 mm, 1.37, colour, silent (the sound has been lost), 5'

Fantazija

Vasko Pregelj, Slovenia (Yugoslavia), 1965, 8 mm, 1.37, colour, silent (the sound has been lost), 8'

Old Courtyard

Vasko Pregelj, Slovenia (Yugoslavia), 1967, 8 mm, 1.37, B&W, 10', bd

Requiem

Vasko Pregelj, Slovenia (Yugoslavia), 1966, 8 mm, 1.37, B&W, silent (the sound has been lost), 14'

Nocturne

Vasko Pregelj, Slovenia (Yugoslavia), 1965, 8 mm, 1.37, B&W, 12', bd

Vasko Pregelj (1948–1985) was a screenwriter and director who made experimental films exploring the medium's formal possibilities in the style of historical avant-gardes. He substituted a realistic narrative with an associative fusion of images. He was the author of fifteen films made between 1965 and 1982. Pregelj has participated in many Slovenian and international festivals and won numerous awards. At the 1975 Domestic Film Week, he received a silver plaque for his direction of Nocturne by Method Badjura. In addition to filmmaking, he also worked on film reflection for the Ekran magazine.

Tine Vrabič - Nitz has established himself as one of the more active representatives of the Slovenian electronic scene in the last decade. He creates original music and performs as a live act, is a former long-time programme manager of the Ljubljana club K4 and is an experienced resident DJ. He is the programme director of Keep in Mind, a festival dedicated to contemporary electronic club music, and the head of Ambient Soup, a label and series dedicated to contemporary ambient music.