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Emerge

Director Biography – Neven Dužanec
Neven Dužanec član je Kinokluba Zagreb od 2001. godine. Autor je brojnih eksperimentalnih i kratkometražnih igranih filmova s kojima je sudjelovao je na domaćim festivalima poput Dana hrvatskog filma, Revije hrvatskog filmskog stvaralaštva, kratkog programa Pulskog filmskog festivala, programa Kockice Zagreb Film Festivala, One Take Film Festivala te nekoliko stranih (Cluj Comedy Film Festival, Tuzla Film Festival).
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Sequence 01

Director Biography – Jeronim Jandrić

Rođen 1999 u Zagrebu završio preddiplomski studij Povijesti umjetnosti i Komparativne književnosti na FFZG. Diplomski upisao ove godine na UMAS Film i video. Amaterski se bavi glazbom i zvukom, koje translatira u eksperimentalni video.

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Audiovizualni uradak/eksperimentalni video realiziran u sklopu radionice Modularni film Kino kluba Zagreb. Otprilike se bavi se odnosom budućnosti i napretka. Je li kauzalno povezivanje njih dvoje samo nuspojave određenog, možda preoptimističnog, viđenja svijeta? Je li takav sentiment u modernom duhu zaista moguć, ili su za nas već stvar prošlosti? Ako je tako, čemu se okrenuti?




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jogginggodard

Director Biography – Lara Badurina
Lara Badurina (Rijeka, 1968) is a visual artist whose experimental artistic projects explore themes from everyday life. In them, the artist creates conceptual frameworks of different approaches to developing a sense of space and its specificities, as well as the interdisciplinary methodology for its shaping and perception.
She earned her Master’s degree in 2003 on the topic of “Documents in art” at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design of the University of Ljubljana. Since the late 80s she has continually been the author of various exhibits, theatre scenographies and light designs both in theatres and in other venues. She has been rewarded for her work with multiple national and international rewards.


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As part of her Hommage series, visual artist Lara Badurina presents a new work, this time in the form of an experimental film. After her tribute to Dan Flavin (2015), Badurina now pays homage to Jean-Luc Godard. Hommage series is generally inspired by artists who explored space and influenced Badurina’s work. With this work specifically, Badurina refers to Godard’s use of narratives (“Weekend” (1967), ”Band of Outsiders” (1964), ”Sympathy for the Devil” (1968)) and his innovative jump cuts. By realizing the work on non-typical locations and by dividing the scenes based on what is near and what is far, Badurina reveals the fragility of the picture itself.Throughout “jogginggodard, removie” the artist develops and explores various female roles inspired by Godard’s heroines (Anna Karina and Anne Wiazemsky).The concept of the film was based around the idea of the live performance inside a museum, which premiered in 2019 at the Zagreb Museum of Contemporary Art. It had a continuous linear order from beginning to end, that was then changed when the author inserted edited scenes into surveillance camera frames, and by doing so, she contrasts different dramatic compositions. The synchronized surveillance cameras suggest that the events happened simultaneously.



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Theta

Director Biography – Lawrence Lek
Based in London, Lawrence LEK (1982, Germany) is a Malaysian-Chinese artist, musician and filmmaker working in the fields of virtual reality and simulation. He was educated at Trinity College, University of Cambridge, the Architectural Association in London, and the Cooper Union in New York. He creates site-specific virtual worlds and speculative films using gaming software, 3D animation, installation and performance. His work has been exhibited at galleries, museums and festivals around the world.

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This CGI animation follows a self-driving police car in a desolate landscape. In dialogue with a built-in therapist, they contemplate the meaning of freedom and lament their uselessness. As their conversation ensues, it becomes increasingly clear in what kind of world our protagonist is living. Theta is part of Lawrence Lek’s Sinofuturist cinematic universe, in which he explores the psychological impact of technology on emerging forms of non-human life



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Lotus-Eyed Girl

Director Biography – Rajee Samarasinghe
Rajee SAMARASINGHE (1988, Sri Lanka) was born and raised amidst the decades-long civil war in Sri Lanka. He later left for the United States where he is now based. Much of his work examines sociopolitical conditions in Sri Lanka through the scope of deconstructing ethnographic practices and the colonial gaze in contemporary media. Samarasinghe’s films have been screened at venues internationally including the Ammodo Tiger Short Competition at IFFR in 2020.
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A haunting collage of pomegranate arils, rural and urban landscapes, family history and mandalas undulate at a crossroads between death and longing. Inspired by the love poem Caurapañcāśikā by Bilhana, Lotus-Eyed Girl unfurls the impacts of colonialism on human desire with a pulsating, ambient eeriness.


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Blinded by Centuries

Director Biography – Parinda Mai
PARINDA Mai (1990, Thailand) is filmmaker who studied at Princeton University and gained a Master of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, specialising in cinematography and film production. Her work has been screened at festivals and galleries around the world. Inspired by the folk story Twelve Sisters, learned across multiple platforms as a child, she reinterpreted the moral of the story and its implications with 12 Kalpas – A Beginning of Beginning (2021). Blinded by Centuries stems from the same project, and was selected for IFFR 2023
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The Buddhist tale Twelve Sisters forms the basis of this speculative folk tale that scrutinises our existence on this planet, depicting a generation adrift between mythical and earthly realms. Parinda Mai questions the effects of globalisation, technological progress, and humanity’s place within an endless cycle of exploitation and destruction. Blinded by Centuries captures the confusing times we are living in, culminating in a synergy of image and sound.

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As If No Misfortune Had Occurred in the Night

Director Biography – Larissa Sansour, Søren Lind
Soren LIND (1970, Denmark) is a Danish author, artist, director, and scriptwriter. With a background in philosophy, Lind wrote books on mind, language, and understanding before turning to art, film, and fiction. He has published novels and short story collections. His children’s books are translated into several languages. Lind screens and exhibits his films at museums, galleries, and film festivals worldwide. His work was shown at the Danish Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennial. Other venues and festivals include Copenhagen Contemporary, MoMA, Barbican, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Berlinale, BFI London Film Festival, and International Film Festival Rotterdam.

Larissa Sansour is a Palestinian artist who currently resides in London, England.[1] Her practice includes photography, film, sculpture, and installation art. Some of her works include Tank (2003), Bethlehem Bandolero (2005), Happy Days (2006), Cairo Taxilogue (2008), The Novel of Novel and Novel (2009), Falafel Road (2010), Palestinauts (2010), Nation State (2012), In the Future, They Ate From the Finest Porcelain (2016), and Archaeology in Absentia (2016).
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Steeped in black and white, Palestinian soprano Nour Darwish delivers an Arabic-language aria about intergenerational sorrow and maternal grief. The haunting composition, based on Gustav Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder and the Palestinian traditional song Mashaal, traces a century of loss and harrowing conflict with extraordinary power and grace.

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Cave Paintings

Director Biography – Siegfried A. Fruhauf
Siegfried A. FRUHAUF (1976, Austria) studied experimental visual design at the University of Art and Design in Linz. He has been experimenting with video, film and photography since 1993 and his short films have been shown at IFFR and other major film festivals, including Cannes, Venice and Sundance. In his work, Fruhauf explores the perception of cinematographic movement through the exposure and structural montage of individual film frames and photographs. In 2002, Fruhauf received the Supporting Award for Film Art from the Austrian Federal Chancellery. His most recent film Cave Painting was selected for IFFR 2023.
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It’s all the rage to evoke spectacular ‘immersive’ cinema today, but nothing matches the immersion effect of a Siegfried A. Fruhauf film. Agglomerating the textures of cave surfaces with the material traces of filmic processes, Cave Painting offers a trippy visual and sonic journey for the senses that evokes an avant-garde, grunge version of the psychedelia in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Oydssey. Don’t blink, or you’ll miss something good. As always, Fruhauf conjures a new world.

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Zabriskie Point

Director Biography – Cho Seoungho
CHO Seoungho (1959, South Korea) holds an MFA in Graphic Arts from Hongik University and an MFA in Video Art from the University of New York. His work focuses on using digital processing techniques to manipulate everyday objects and scenes into highly lyrical sound and image collages, and has been the subject of a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He lives and works in New York City.
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A landscape that has captivated many filmmakers and enshrined itself in our collective cinematic lore is here abstracted to its foundation: colour, shape, light and shadow. Through the high contrast geometry of its image, the film brings us further from its popular references and closer to the essence of the cinematic experience.

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Repetitions

Director Biography – Morgan Quaintance
Morgan QUAINTANCE is a London-based artist and writer. His moving-image work has been shown widely, with presentations in 2020 including Curtas Vila Do Conje, Portugal, at which he received the Best Experimental Film award and CPH:DOX, at which he received the New Vision Award, both for the film South (2020); European Media Art Festival, Germany; Alchemy Film and Arts Festival, Scotland; and Images Festival, Toronto. Over the past 10 years, his incisive writings on contemporary art, aesthetics and their sociopolitical contexts have featured in publications including Art Monthly, the Wire, and the Guardian, and helped shape the landscape of discourse and debate in the UK.
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An exercise in observing repetition, following patterns and deciphering loops. Drawing focus through the lull of recurring images and repeating sounds, a clearer image emerges of industrialised labour and the vulnerable bodies of those performing it. This film finds a rhythm, much a like a machine, to manifest the misgivings of the working class.