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Collectors

Director Biography – Mia Martinović
Mia Martinović was born in 1993 in Zagreb. She graduated at the Faculty of Architecture in Zagreb with the project Archive of Arts. Since 2019, she is a member of Kinoklub Zagreb.
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She enters the Archives to hand over her memories. How much time can she get in return for the things she experienced?
Film essay that combines videos and photographs, reality and fiction, where author explores the value of her memories and her imagination.

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A poet is dead

Director Biography – Mattia Biondi
Mattia Biondi is an italian independent filmmaker who works at the end of the images. His research is based on the use of minimal and essential technical instruments and it is oriented at the development of creative processes concerning the fusion of archival material and autobiographical elements. He is also one of the curators of the Laterale Film Festival in Cosenza (IT).
SYNOPSIS
When death enters the home, the poet imagines being elsewhere.

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A Crooked Path Through The Dark

Director Biography – David Franklin
David Franklin is an Irish visual artist and film maker currently based in Barcelona. He has exhibited internationally and received grants from various institutions in Spain and Japan. He works at the crossroads of art, cinema, literature, and performance, utilising a range of media from painting to video to explore irrational and chaotic realities. “A Crooked Path Through The Dark” is the first work from his ongoing project “Out of Earth and Sky”, made in collaboration with some of the world’s leading butoh dancers, including members of the internationally-renowned groups Dairakudakan and Sankai Juku.
SYNOPSIS
A butoh dancer (Atsushi Matsuda, of the internationally-renowned group Dairakudakan) travels across Tokyo on his way to rehearsals, traversing a subconscious landscape that bridges the interior world of the self with an exterior world that extends through the city to the cosmos. In reflecting on a dancer’s creative process, “A Crooked Path Through The Dark” offers a phantasmagorical look at the ties that bind the individual to the world around them, the connections we form with our environment, and the role of personal experience in shaping both lives and artwork. As storms boil and earthquakes rattle, we witness the visceral and moving process of destruction and renewal needed for the creation of a new performance.

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Feel The Change

Director Biography – Luka Tokić
Luka Tokić was born in 1990. He graduated from the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb in 2022, with a focus on editing. He develops film and TV scripts and works as a director and editor. His short film “Jazavci” (2012), which he wrote and directed, won a Special Mention at the Croatian Film Festival in 2013. As an editor, he has worked on documentary projects with many renowned authors, such as Ivona Juka, Dario Juričan, Sandra Basso, and others. Among the projects he has edited, he highlights the editing of the feature-length documentary film “Kumec” (Dario Juričan, 2020) and the film “Hipokritovi sinovi” (Anton Mezulić, 2019), which was co-financed by the Croatian Audiovisual Centre (HAVC) and on which he also worked as a screenwriter. He is a co-author and director of the popular YouTube talk show “Gradonačelnik svemira” (Mayor of the Universe), produced by Tibor Keser. He worked as an assistant director and editor on the documentary film “Pravilo zlatnog sata” (The Golden Hour Rule) (Ivona Juka, 2023), directed by Ivona Juka in the production of the Center for Cultural Activities, which is scheduled to be broadcast on HRT in November 2023. He is currently working as a director and screenwriter on the pre-production of the documentary series about street art “Pred zidom” (Behind the Wall), produced by Anita Juka and Mihovil Pirnat for HRT.
SYNOPSIS
The Ever-Changing Shape speaks to us about change and what change really means to it.

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Refractions

Vladislav Knežević
Vladislav Knezevic biography 28.8.1967. , Zagreb, Croatia
Between 1989 and 1993 He studied at the Academy of Dramatic Art (film / TV dept.) in Zagreb and one semester at the De Vrije Academie (audiovisual dept.) in Den Haag
Primarily engaged in audiovisual research and creating works using recorded video material, digital photography, micro-animation, stereoscopic 3D technique and generic electronic sound in an attempt to create a new experience of watching the movie media. In the focus of interest are concepts related to the marginal areas of real categories, the novelty images, digital aesthetics, utilitarian / fantastic constructs and the consequences of technological and scientific research on human experience.
He won awards at festivals in Split, MFNF (Grand Prix, 1997), New York, Be Film Underground Film Festival (2015 Best 3D) and Karlsruhe, Beyond 3D, (2015 Best Short). He has also won two Oktavian Prizes (Croatia Film Critic Asocciation Award for the best experimental film in 2010 for Arhcheo 29 ​​and in 2015 for A.D.A.M at Days of Croatian Film festival.  He participated in exhibitions HT Awards for Contemporary Art at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb in 2106 and 2018.  A.D.A.M, was shown in the digital edition of the Machine Minds and Digital Neurons, Labocine in New York, 2018. 
He worked as a curator on TV projects, all related to the presenting of contemporary art, experimental films and videos, Videodrome (TV show 2002-2004), 25fps (International Festival 2005-2009), TV – performance DM talks to DM (HRT 1, 2010) animated film series Animatik (HRT 3) and New Collections (HRT 3). Since 1989, his films have been shown at festivals, exhibitions and presentations in Europe, USA, Australia, Japan, Brazil …  As a TV director, he mostly worked on programs for culture and art (Second Format, HRT 1, (2005-2014). In 2010 he directed a TV documentary New Tendency which was screened at the Venice Biennale in 2014 in the program Meetings on Architecture.
During high school education at the Center for Culture and Art, he participated in activities of Kinoklub Zagreb, between 1985 and 1989 he made several experimental films.
SYNOPSIS
Analog photographs,chemical processes and digital micro-animation establish an interspace between the photographic and cinematic, the static and the moved. The form as a shape of energy transforms the view. Every moment for itself and simultaneously, eternity. The outer space and the constellations, the coldness, the doubt and the movement, chance and an attempt of conscious break.

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The Last Step of an Acrobat

Cesare Bedogné
Cesare Bedogné is an Italian photographer, film-maker and writer. His first, autobiographical novel and his black and white photographs were at he basis of the film “Story for an empty theatre”, which he co-directed with the Russian film-maker Aleksandr Balagura. He later directed the experimental/documentary short films “Maria’s Silence”, “The Last Step of an Acrobat”, “Photographing New York”. All these experimental films won numerous awards internationally and were screened in prestigious film festivals such as Art Visuals&Poetry in Vienna, the 75th Festival Internazionale del Cinema di Salerno, the L’Europe autour de l’Europe film Festival in Paris, the 69th Montecatini International Short Film Festival in Italy, the 14th Harlem International Film Festival in New York, the London Greek Film Festival, The Cinemistica Film Festival in Spain, the AMIIWorkFest in Vilnius, the Concrete Dream film Festival in Los Angeles and many others.He recently completed (March 2022) another experimental short entitled “Lost Images”. Further information is available on the artist’s website:
www.cesarebedogne.com
SYNOPSIS
“We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us, and we drown”.
(T.S.Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock)
This film appeared to us, as it unfolded almost by itself, day after day while shooting, as a mythical fairy-tale about dead sea creatures and the desire to fly – Death and Flight, that cannot exist without one another.
Like a dream, it is based on a series of interconnected visions, longings and forebodings that could not possibly be reduced to a unity of meaning. As life itself, or as the sea which is always changing and yet remains the same, unable to betray its mystery.
More like a visual poem than a narrative film, it is the story of an Equilibrist suspended on the slack rope of existence, the thin and always changeable borderland joining all opposites, Sky and Earth, Life and Death, Light and Shadow, Elsewhere and Nowhere.
This film is also about transformation and loss of identity, about the desire to become someone else, or even something else – the screech of a seagull, bleaching bones, a broken dolphin’s mouth, dissolving into deep eternity – a meditation on melancholy and on the frailty of existence, permeated by the secret whispering of all things shipwrecked and lost.

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Ruined World: An AI Elegy

Zoran Poposki
Zoran Poposki FRSA, MFA, PhD is a multi-award-winning transdisciplinary visual artist, curator, and filmmaker in Hong Kong.
His work has been shown in more than 100 exhibitions, screenings and festivals worldwide, including Ars Electronica, Crypto Art And Digital Art Fair (CADAF) in Paris, 30th Biennial of Graphic Arts Ljubljana, XIII Cairo Biennale, Institute of Contemporary Arts London, Xi’an Art Museum in China, Minsheng Art Museum Beijing, Art Basel Hong Kong, City Art Museum Ljubljana, Sergey Kuryokhin Modern Art Center in St. Petersburg, CICA Museum in South Korea, National Gallery of Macedonia, Xi’an Art Museum in China, Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje, National Museum of Montenegro, Museu da Vila Velha Portugal, Museo de Arte de Ponce San Juan in Puerto Rico, Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art in Manchester, Art Stays Festival of Contemporary Art in Slovenia, and the University of Sharjah. His public art projects have been presented on urban LED screens, video billboards, posters and billboards in NYC, Skopje, Dublin, Hong Kong, and the demilitarized border zone between South Korea and North Korea.
Awards include: CEC Artslink Award (New York), ArtSlant Prize (Los Angeles), Rise Art Prize Shortlist (London), Global Art Awards Finalist (Dubai, in association with The Wall Street Journal), ArtRights Prize Finalist (Italy), Fellowship of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA, London), etc.
Poposki’s work is collected in the Luciano Benetton Foundation’s Imago Mundi collection (Italy) and in the Videotage Media Art Collection (Hong Kong). His work is archived in the AUP archive (a project of e-flux in collaboration with the Serpentine Gallery London), the Ocean Archive by TBA21-Academy, and Google Arts & Culture.
Filmography: Peace Piece (2022), Ruined World: An AI Elegy (2022), Rain (2020), Crisis (2020), The City Alone (2017-2020), We Immigrants (2017), Hong Kong Atlas (2013), Portrait of the Artist (2010), Different (2009), Here / The Border (2007)
SYNOPSIS
“Ruined World” is a short experimental film generated by artificial intelligence (AI) in collaboration with award-winning contemporary artist and director Zoran Poposki, FRSA. This is the first ever short film where all the elements (visuals, text, and music) have been created utilizing artificial intelligence.
In a post-apocalyptic world where humans have been eradicated due to planetary-wide environmental collapse, an artificial intelligence ruminates on the nature of existence through a visual poem.
The visuals are a series of AI-generated artworks created by Polyptech (Poposki’s creative alter ego in the Metaverse ) through text-to-image synthesis utilizing a neural network. The neural network has been trained by Polyptech through thousands of iterations to generate visuals based on a string of keywords associated to climate change, such as the Anthropocene, ecology, nature, etc.
The text is an AI-generated poem co-written with Poposki, based on the text of Henry David Thoreau’s reflection upon simple living in/with nature, “Walden”. The AI uses a generative text model developed by Open AI, leveraging machine learning and deep learning to achieve the generation of natural language. The resulting AI poem is then read by an AI text-to-speech voice generator.
The music in the film is a generative sound piece created by an AI music algorithm trained on Johann Sebastian Bach’s Chorale BWV639 (Choral Prelude in F Minor).

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Dustbin of a Politician

Parashar Sadanand Naik
arashar Naik is a a visual artist living in the suburbs of Bombay, in a city that predated Bombay – Vasai.
He completed his GD arts from Vasai Vikasini School of Visual Arts. He also is a professional film editor and his art practice mainly consists of the interpretation of his surroundings. He works in various media from drawings, assemblages, kinetic sculpture to videos.
He has worked on various projects collaborating with the Jharkand government, P.S.B.T and various other banners within Bollywood. His short films and videos have been selected and screened in various national and international platforms. Working as a collaborator with Clark house initiative for almost three years now, he has contributed in the show Bunting, Guadeloupe Oriental, Home videos and edited the series of videos for Gondwana Series at the Centre Pompidou in 2017. He curated a group show of 23 artists at Clark House titled Narcissism and Social Interaction, 2017.
SYNOPSIS
The work is an attempt to portray a society through damaged videos and images, a lot can be understood of a person by knowing what he or she throws away in a dustbin, various videos images, and audio come together to create an experience that is like going through the contains of a DUSTBIN.
For example: If in the future an Archaeologist finds a dustbin from our current times, what will his experience be like while going through its contains, and what kind of picture will he paint of our society? the work is a satirical take on that feeling or that picture of our society that the Archaeologist will imagine.

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XX

Vasja Lebarič, Julij Zornik
Vasja Ris Lebarič – born in 1975 in Yugoslavia.
My early plan was to get retired after kindergarten. As this didn’t work out I decided to be a painter. And then it all went in this direction – Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana, then in 2001 a year at Universität der Künste, Berlin, where I joined an alternative art collective Fleischerei – now Czentrifuga – where I still participate.
Collaboration with alternative art collectives and autonomous spaces formed my ways of production.
Julij Zornik, born on 8.10.1974, began flirting with the world of audio in 1994 as a radio and television technician, and as a concert and festival monitor mixer. From 1996 on, when domestic audio post-production experienced a boom of studio activity, Julij focused his efforts in that direction. To date, Zornik has designed sound for countless TV and radio ads, over fifty short and animated films, and more than sixty feature and documentary films.
SYNOPSIS
An animated-experimental film which, in accordance with the process of creation – the chemical and thermomechanical processes – features coincidences as its immanent part and thus tries to surpass the conventions of traditional animation and narration.

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Intrusion

Matevž Jerman, Niko Novak
Matevž Jerman has directed several experimental short films and music videos. He is also one of the co-funders of Kraken Short Film Promotion Society, the program director of the FeKK – Ljubljana Short Film Festival, and a short film curator for several other film festivals. Jerman is also a film critic and editor and works at the programme department at the Slovenian Cinematheque.
Niko Novak is active in the fields of film, theatre, and music. He has been working as a production designer on feature and short films for the last twenty years. As a musician he is making music independently as a singer/songwriter and a composer for theatre and film.
SYNOPSIS
The Gian Rinaldo Carli High School in Koper keeps a late 19th century set of animals preserved in formaldehyde, one of the oldest collections of the kind in Slovenia. The film shows specimens stored in glass jars in the Oreste Gerosa Natural History Cabinet.