WHAT'S COOKING? /

WITH:

Academy of Fine Arts and Design University of Ljubljana / Video, Animation and New Media ( UL ALUO)
AVA - Academy of Visual Arts (AVA)
University of Nova Gorica School of Arts (AU UNG)
Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television Ljubljana (UL AGRFT)

Screening in the presence of the filmmakers.

The selection of student films was curated by the festival team.

Abstraction of Emotion

Abstrakcija emocije, Ksenija Todorović (UL ALUO), Slovenia, 2023, digital format, colour, 1' 50''

The film’s goal is to elicit the viewer’s emotional reaction with sound and forms that dynamically change and differ in their energy and the speed of motion, movements and colour. With its indefiniteness, the film enables the viewers to experience the event in front of them from their own viewpoint, which makes each screening a private creation dependent on personal perception.

Meaning experimental

Milena Brkić (AU UNG), Slovenia, 2022, digital format, colour, 7' 50''

A film within a film, which challenges the audience and the real audience to ask or not what is before them.

Generation Z

Mia Zigmund (AVA), Slovenia, 2022, digital format, colour, 2' 12''

What happens when the general objectification of women moves to the domain of social networks, where women themselves foreground themselves as sexual objects? Generation Z, born between 1995 and 2010, assesses its potential largely from the viewpoint of social networks, where one’s status is measured by likes, shares and comments under one’s posts. In a humorous way, the protagonist Nina “capitalises” on her looks through everyday chores.

Ready, Steady, Go

Špela Ambrož (UL ALUO), Slovenia, 2023, digital format, B&W, 1'

What drives one into a new personal era? The filmmaker deals less with concrete events and more with almost unrecognisable images, which, together with the sound background, occupy the place of experiencing. Individual parts of the periods are separated by dark sighs of censorship, establishing the film as an integral aesthetic experience.

Tower II

Andraž Žigart (UL AGRFT), Slovenia, 2023, digitalni format, colour, 6' 13'', bd

Among macro and micro landscapes, the director searches for his view of an always known tower.

Lovingly Painful Breathing

Sebastjan Skutnik (AVA), Slovenia, 2023, digital format, colour, 7' 55''

A consecutive visualisation based on three songs from Pink Floyd’s album The Dark Side of the Moon (“Speak to Me”, “Breathe”, “On the Run”), released in 1973. The filmmaker tries to understand the spirit of the time, the unfolding of the period in which the work was created, and to visually transfer it to the present time. The resulting product is merely an iteration, a sort of visual recap of something that he imagines as an “inner journey of collective self-reflection in its search for the truth of human existence”.

Column

Ciril Zupan (UL AGRFT), Slovenia, 2023, digital format, colour, 3' 20''

Somewhere in nature, there stand a few columns.

I reflect

Toma Kirina (AU UNG), Slovenia, 2022, digital format, colour, 3' 24''

A video essay on thinking and reflection, joy and the question about what affects me.

Rebirth

Sergia Editerovich (UL AGRFT), Slovenia, 2023, digital format, colour, 1' 12'

This experimental film explores the possibilities of a rebirth of something new, which emerges with an energetic journey of two elements. Their end creates a new beginning.

Dark Witch, White Shaman

Amadea Ris (UL ALUO), Slovenia, 2023 digital format, colour, 24' 39''

What do concepts such as transformation, identity, madness, obsession and self-healing mean? The ability of insight into one’s mental state is an inborn or natural ability of our being and is a cause of sustainable changes at the level of beliefs, experiencing and decision-making in all situations in life.

Hunting

Tomi Sokolov (UL ALUO), Slovenia, 2024, digital format, colour, 2' 02'', bd

This animated comedy full of absurds features Vera, an unnoticeable housewife who enjoys baking cakes. She has a secret, which she carefully protects with her smile. Her husband is a rather unusual gentlemen, a lemon – at least it seems so. When the sun sets and the cosy house becomes filled with the intoxicating smell of cake, Vera prepares an unusual evening.