25 FPS: Complex reality and attention

This year's edition will include a two-day seminar titled Dispersions, along with the usual programming; we are also excited to announce the members of Grand Jury, a companion to experimental cinema in the works, as well as a performance by a very special guest – a pioneer of British avant-garde & master of expanded cinema, Guy Sherwin.

With a few more weeks left for submissions, 25 FPS Festival announces a few programming novelties that will make the 22nd edition special.

Confronted with the overpowering digital and the 'enshittification' of the Internet, with a need for forstering active participation in the community, with increasingly limited public space open to discussions about the ways cinema can contribute to a tolerant and thoughtful society, the Festival is set to organize a two-day seminar titled Dispersions, dedicated to the importance of our attention. It will comprise short lectures and film programs with the aim of highlighting how we focus and get distracted, and how our attention spans disperse. Scholars, students and spectators will get a chance to take part in the collaborative film programming, as curated by the host, Austrian Vienna Shorts and Bosnian Sarajevo Film Festival.

The Festival is ready to present members of this year's Grand Jury: Gloria Vilches (ES), Alia Syed (UK) and Federico Windhausen (AR). While they will prepare special programs for the Festival, showcasing different archival, iconic and art films, we are also excited to announce the publication of a special companion to experimental cinema, incorporating texts on ethnographic cinema, European avant-garde, expanded cinema and collage films, on sound and soundtrack, on feminist perspectives on filmmaking, as well as the significance of film festivals for contemporary cinema.

As for our popular live Expanded Cinema section, we will welcome to Zagreb a pioneer of the British avant-garde and expanded cinema tradition, Guy Sherwin, who will perform his iconic Man with Mirror.

The Festival's old slogan, "Increase the resolution of your perception", is emodied not only in this year's film and discursive programming but also in the new design and visual identity by the 25 FPS Festival's longstanding designer Andro Giuonio, inviting everyone to give this multidimensional image their full attention.

The programming of 25 FPS Festival are supported by the Croatian Audiovisual Center, the City Office for Culture and Civil Society of the City of Zagreb, the Kultura Nova foundation, the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, the European Short Film Network and the European Union.