Screening
22 March 2025, 7 pm
W 1 – Theatersaal, Regensburg, Germany
SCCA-Ljubljana is joining the 31st International Short Film Week in Regensburg, one of the most prominent short film festivals in Germany, which will take place from 20 to 30 March. The festival, which has been presenting innovative and daring short film expressions from all over the world for more than three decades, will this time pay special attention to Slovenian film.
As part of the national focus on Slovenia, SCCA-Ljubljana – together with the Slovenian Cinematheque, the FeKK Short Film Festival in Ljubljana and the Animateka International Animated Film Festival – has co-curated five curated programmes representing the broad spectrum of Slovenian film and video creativity. The festival audience will have the opportunity to see a selection of video works from the Postaja DIVA archive, new queer film productions, restored Slovenian classics from the former Yugoslavia, contemporary shorts and the best of Slovenian animation. The programmes were curated by Peter Cerovšek, Igor Prassel, Jelena Radić and Matevž Jerman.
The DIVA Station archive will present Interlaced DIVA, a programme curated by Peter Cerovšek, presenting the voices and perspectives of mainly female authors. The title of the programme plays on the double meaning of the term “interlaced”. On a technical level, it refers to the structure of the video signal, while on a symbolic level it expresses the interplay of diverse artistic voices and highlights the contribution of women artists in exploring themes such as gender roles, normative representations of femininity and the representation of the female body. The selected works critically examine entrenched social structures that influence our understanding of identity, sexuality and social relations. Through an interplay of images and ideas, the programme invites the viewer to reflect on how these motifs resonate in a contemporary context.
The programme features works by artists Zemira Alajbegović, Neven Korda, Ana Nuša Dragan, Ema Kugler, Sasha Ihnatovich, Jasmina Mustafić, Duba Sambolec and Sara Bezovšek.
More: https://www.kurzfilmwoche.de/en/programm/interlaced-diva
Interlaced DIVA
Curator: Peter Cerovšek
TV Slovenija, 1993, 11′ 10”
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Reconstruction of the life of Lela: in the Middle Ages she was accused of witchcraft; in the 20th century she finds herself in the midst of war, in the future she will leave the planet.
TV Skopje, 1989, 8’ 47’’
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A woman’s body communicates with its surroundings, it is a receptor of the macrocosm that bears traces of all other laws, including even the physiology with all its energetic zones.
Forum Ljubljana & VPK, 1996, 8’ 22’’
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The video was shot after the performance of the same name, performed at the international festival of contemporary arts City of Women in October 1995 in Ljubljana. The viewer enters a dark atmosphere dictated by dramatic vocal-electronic music, passing anthropomorphic and waxy zoomorphic figures.
Luskuz produkcija, 2019, 6′
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An attempt to challenge status quo of normative heterosexual pornography. The film takes us on a journey through images that were made to give viewers pleasure: from ‘naive’ erotic found footage to close-ups of porn actresses and queer fetishist images. What do people on both sides of the screen feel?
D.S., 2001/2013, 9′ 33”
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The idea for this ethnography was born in the 1990s when the artist noticed the increasing number of military personnel traveling to war zones in the Balkans at an airport in Norway.
Aksioma, 2019, 4′ 53”
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A film about the phenomenon of ‘revenge porn’ by linking various clips from the film, series and cartoon landscape.
FV Video, Brut, VS Video/Forum, E-motion film, TV Slovenija & PIAS, Ljubljana, 1989, 5′ 20”
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A music video for a song by Borghesia group places human bodies seemingly captured inside video projections. The singer is set in a role of observer and is a direct creator of the story.
One of the highlights of the festival will be the audiovisual performance The Constants of Vanishing, produced by the V-F-X Ljubljana festival, organised by SCCA-Ljubljana in collaboration with the Slovenian Cinematheque, in which the Slovenian electronic music producer Tine Mulej Vrabič – Nitz will accompany live restored experimental films by Vasko Pregelj. In addition to the film screenings, the Regensburg event will be complemented by a literary evening with Milena Miklavčič and a concert by Zoran Predin & Damirov Django Group, which will bring together Slovenian music and film.
The participation of SCCA-Ljubljana in the festival is part of a broader effort to promote and internationalise Slovenian film and video creativity and to strengthen cooperation with related film institutions in Germany and wider Europe. The Regensburg Festival thus offers a unique opportunity to showcase the diversity of Slovenian film practices in the international arena. The organisation of the event was also supported by SKICA Berlin – the Cultural Centre of the Republic of Slovenia in Berlin.