Festival day 3
Thursday at the 21st 25 FPS Festival brings a selection of early digital films by visual artist and curator Martijn van Boven; a film program by our Grand Jury member, filmmaker Michael Robinson, as well as two International Competition programs. Lastly, Ivan Šarar, also known as ŠÆRÅR, will treat us to a very special musical program at the Klet studio-gallery at Ilica 73.
Our day opens with a specially curated film selection by Martijn van Boven, Raw Data: The Origins of Digital Film at 2 p.m. It brings together a variety of experimental works dealing exclusively with the possibilities of digital image processing, providing insight into the development of digital image processing techniques, especially in the context of art, from the 1980s to the present day. The program is realised in collaboration with the European Short Film Network.
In his selection of films, titled Inwards Outwards Onwards, US filmmaker Michael Robinson, member of the Grand Jury, presents four of his own works, and four works by other artists which he “deeply admires, both for how they commune with the cosmic, and for their observational clarity.” He will present his program at 4 p.m. at the Kinoteka cinema.
At 6 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. there will be two film blocks of films from the international competition program: the first united by the 'Elements', those of a devastated, but ultimately uncontrollable nature, yet undeniably influenced by human activity, and the second entitled 'Ghosts', and dealing with the remnants and ghosts of the past and their marks on our future.
The filmmakers who will be joining us for a conversation are Benjamin Darville (L’Acqua Xe Morta/The Water Is Dead) in the first program block, and Juan Francisco Rodriguez (Relatives of the Luminous Valley) and Émilien Dubuc (ODAMADO) in the second. Elements also feature L’mina by Randa Maroufi, Scrap by Noémie Lobry and Les rites de passage by Florian Fischer and Johannes Krell, while Ghosts bring Archipelago of Earthen Bones - To Bunya by Malena Szlam and Arguments in Favour of Love by Gabriel Abrantes.
We end the day at the Klet studio-gallery at 10:30 p.m. with Muzikice, a special musical program by Ivan Šarar, which the author himself describes as “DIY lo-fi cinematic electronica,” which “it’s maybe 100% not,” based on a small part of his independent oeuvre.