Guest screenings of Slovenian avant-garde films and a master class by Karpo Godina
13th and 14th September 2024
Beton Kino, Ulica Slobode 28, Split, Croatia
In 2022, as part of the World AV Heritage Day, SCCA and the Slovene Cinematheque hosted the Cine Club Split (Kino klub Split) in Ljubljana. This year, we continue our cooperation with two evenings of screenings and talks in Split. The first evening will begin with the presentation of the DIVA Station archive and the guest-curated VideoGarden programme Landscapes, Spaces, which will be presented by Peter Cerovšek and Robert Kuret. The evening will end with the screening of the programme From the Avant-Garde Collections of the Slovenian Cinematheque: Everything is Spinning. In cooperation with the Slovenian Cinematheque, the second evening will be dedicated to one of the most important Slovenian directors and cinematographers, Karpo Godina, with whom Igor Prassel and Matevž Jerman will hold a conversation and opening remarks. The evening begins with a screening of his short, recently restored films and ends with a masterclass by Karpo Godina.
PROGRAMME
Friday, 13 September 2024, 7.30 pm
Landscapes, Spaces
Curator: Robert Kuret (SCCA-Ljubljana)
The films deal with landscapes, both internal and external, in one way or another. If human characters or figures are present, they are part of the landscape rather than occupying the foreground; in this way, we establish a relationship to space, its dimensions, and the entities within it, which manifest themselves in different ways. Above all, humans manifest themselves through the traces of social arrangements that determine the ways and possibilities of moving through spaces.
- Ana Brumat, Pursuit of Anomalous Mind Habitats, Netherlands, 2019, 4’
- Blaž Kutin, Warm for this Time of Year, Slovenia, 2011, 10’
- Ester Ivakič, Reversed Air, Slovenia, 2020, 8’
- Maja Prelog, Blaž Murn (RÁTNEEK), 2 0 4 5, Slovenia, 2016, 9′
- Juš Premrov, x1-ESCHATON, Slovenia, 2022, 7′
- David Paige, Harnessing, France, 2023, 22’
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Friday, 13 September 2024, 9 pm
From the avant-garde collections of the Slovenian Cinematheque: Everything is spinning
Curator: Matevž Jerman (Slovenian Cinematheque)
- Vasko Pregelj, Nocturne (Nokturno), Slovenia (Yugoslavia), 1965, 14′
- Vinko Rozman, Prague Spring (Praška pomlad), Slovenia (Yugoslavia), 1969, 11′
- Davorin Marc, Bite Me. Once Already (Ugrizni me. Že enkrat), Slovenia (Yugoslavia), 1978/80, 1′
- Davorin Marc, Everything Is Spinning (Vse se vrti), Slovenia (Yugoslavia), 1978, 2’
- Sulejman Ferenčak, Dislocated Third Eye Series: Bismillah /In Four Movements/ (Serija Dislocirano tretje oko: Bismillah /v štirih stavkih/), OM produkcija, Slovenia (Yugoslavia), 1984, 28′ 38”
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Saturday, 14 September 2024, 7 pm
Short films by Karpo Godina
Curator: Matevž Jerman (Slovenian Cinematheque)
Karpo Godina’s short films are always marked by joyful playfulness, aesthetic perfection and often a subversive (and always witty) political note. This is evidenced by the series of black-and-white experimental films on 8mm, which he shot in the 60s as a student at the Ljubljana Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television (AGRFT), in which he explores the kinetic and technical capabilities of the camera-pen (caméra-stylo). His recognized author’s approach appeared in full glory shortly after Karpo replaced the small format with color 35mm and never looked back. In The Gratinated Brains of Pupilija Ferkeverk (1970), the camera tripod sinks into the muddy bottom of the Sečovlje salt pans, and then the principle of tableaux vivants is introduced in a groundbreaking way. In the space of a few years, he created a series of short films that today are considered to be some of the key short-film classics of black and Yugoslav film.
- A.P. (Anno Passato), 1966, 6’
- Game (Divjad), 1965, 6’
- Dog (Pes), 1965, 8’
- Excerpt from the documentary about the making of the film I miss Sonia Heine, 1972, 15’
- I miss Sonia Heine (Nedostaje mi Sonja Henie), 1971, 20’
- The Gratinated Brains of Pupilija Ferkeverk (Gratinirani mozak Pupilije Ferkeverk), 1970, 12’
- About the Art of Love or a Film with 14441 Frames (O ljubavnim veštinama ili film sa 14441 kvadratom), 1972, 11’
- Healthy People for Fun (Zdravi ljudi za razonodu) 1971, 15’
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Saturday, 14 September 2024, 9 pm
Karpo Godina: Masterclass
More at the Kino klub Split website
Organisation: SCCA-Ljubljana/DIVA Station, Slovenian Cinematheque, Kino klub Split
The programme of SCCA-Ljubljana is supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the City of Ljubljana, Department for Culture.
