Talk and screening
Friday, 14 March 2025, 7 pm
Project Room SCCA, Metelkova 6, Ljubljana
Back2Back is a series of events where we invite local and international authors to present their production and establish a dialogue with works of their choice from the DIVA Station archive. Interdisciplinary artist, poet and filmmaker Hannah Koselj Marušič will present her award-winning short film Split Ends.
The program of short experimental documentary videos and films is based on the sense of frustration I experience in a world where people, especially women, are pigeonholed. A world that can’t stand contradictions; being good and bad, smart and stupid, feminist and ‘male gaze-y pussy’ at the same time. The angry, frustrated, unhappy, beautiful, dream girl who wants to kill herself. That’s not good marketing. ‘Who do you think you are, snot, make up your mind!’ In this reality, flooded with images of women who are supposed to be beautiful, and where we are suffocated at every turn by imposed ideals of beauty, the question arises: how to enjoy life when the fetishization of the female body becomes the greatest pain when the fear of aging is even greater than the fear of death? The program is thus an expression of an inner struggle – to hate the objectification of the body, but at the same time to crave and submit to the validation it brings.
The works are selected based on my film Split Ends (Luksuz Production & ALUO, 2024) and represent a broader spectrum of themes that are close to my heart. They evoke feelings of horror mixed with bizarre humor – feelings that I have myself when I experience life. With their boldness and emotional intensity, they explore pain, fear, sexuality, social inequalities, and the objectification of the female body. Through intimate narratives, subversive gestures, and powerful visual metaphors, they invite the viewer to reflect on the body as a site of social expectations and internal struggles.
– Hannah Koselj Marušič
PROGRAMME
Curator: Hannah Koselj Marušič
Duration: 55′
1995, 12′ 34”
2024, 6′ 36”
2002, 4′ 28”
2019, 6′ 6”
2019, 5′ 59”
2024, 14′ 59”
2011, 3′ 29”
2016, 1′ 22”
Hannah Koselj Marušič is an interdisciplinary artist, poet, and filmmaker who explores the transformation of difficult life experiences into universal stories of strength, growth, and vulnerability. She graduated in Fine Arts from the Academy of Visual Arts – AVA and is completing her MA in Video, Animation, and New Media at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design – ALUO, University of Ljubljana. Her work, which combines video, film, poetry, performance, photography, painting, and spatial installations, goes beyond mere storytelling – it becomes a visceral sharing of a personal experience that encourages the viewer to empathize and understand.
Her short films have reached national and international festivals and two have won awards; ALL IS ONE NOTHING MATTERS and Split Ends. She has exhibited in numerous group exhibitions, both at home and abroad, and in seven solo exhibitions. She was awarded the UL ALUO Prize for her series of exhibitions and short film Split Ends. Her poetry has been published in the anthologies Bog si ga drka na nas and Poezija upora, as well as on the LUD Literatura and Vrabec Anarchist websites. Her poetry debut, VSE JE ENO VSE JE VSEENO (Literarno društvo IA / Črna skrinjica Collection, 2024), which is also a collection of audiovisual works, was nominated for the Best Literary Debut 40. It was selected as the Best Literary Fiction of the Slovenian Book Fair.
When she’s not creating, she’s crying, observing life, and making poems.
(Photo: Marijo Županov)
DIVA Station is a physical and web archive of video and new-media art which has been developing since 2005 and is also a broader compendium of SCCA projects that seek to research, present, document and archive video/new-media art.
Videospotting are curated and thematic programs of video art, which have been created since 1994 in the form of lectures, public discussions, exhibitions and screenings.
Production: SCCA-Ljubljana/DIVA Station
Supported by: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, City of Ljubljana – Department for Culture
