Impressive audiovisual cinema performances, program announcement for Rijeka and Split
The 21st 25 FPS Festival will feature two screenings of expanded cinema, as a part of the Kino 11 program, Olivia, directed by our laureate Sofía Petersen. The three-day program at the Rijeka Art-kino will feature Reflexes, Croatian Competition, the best from the International Competition, and a tribute to representatives of the Iranian New Wave – Forugh Farrokhzad and by Marva Nabili.
This year’s first Expanded Cinema is a sound performance by multimedia artist Enrique del Castillo, who uses optical readers to transform film samples into sound. His performance Umbráfono is based on an optical-analog system that has been used in cinemas since 1919 to play film soundtracks, and which will be used to transform light stimuli into sound. The performance will take place on Wednesday, September 24, at 10:30 p.m. at the Kinoteka Cinema.
The performance group La Cellule d’intervention Metamkine returns to Zagreb after 16 years. Their visuals are swirling improvised vignettes sounded live using tape fragments and old synthesizer sounds. Relying on the magic of mirrors, multiple projectors and ingenious live editing, Metamkine create an immersive viewing experience, taking us back to the world of early film special effects. Their performance is scheduled for Friday, September 26, at 9 p.m. at Histrionski dom in Ilica 90.
The excellent debut of Argentinian filmmaker Sofía Petersen, who won the 2021 Grand Prix with her Passing Place, will be featured in the Kino 11 program. The feature film Olivia draws on the tradition of slow film, and owes its specific, luxuriant look to a 16-mm Ektachrome. It is a story of a daughter searching for her father in Tierra del Fuego. After its premiere at the Locarno Festival, the director and the producer will present the film to the Zagreb audience on the last day of the festival, on Saturday, September 27, at 11 a.m. at the Kinoteka Cinema.
25 FPS Festival in Rijeka and Split
A selection of films from the 21st 25 FPS Festival will be screened at the Rijeka Art-kino (September 30 and October 1) and the Split Multimedia Cultural Center (October 30). In addition to the international program, the Rijeka audience will also have opportunity to see Croatian competitive program Reflexes, featuring films by Marija Georgiev, Vladislav Knežević, Maja Ležaić, Karla Mesek and Tin Žanić, and on Friday, October 3rd at 6 p.m., the program will feature a tribute to Iranian female directors: the black-and-white documentary The House is Black by Forugh Farrokhzad, known as one of the notable works of Iranian cinema and the film which inspired the Iranian New Wave, and the earliest fully preserved and recently restored feature film by Iranian director Marva Nabili, The Sealed Soil, interpreted as an uncompromising critique of institutionalized misogyny.