Video game landscapes and the Archeoscope projection on Expanded Cinema, new film by Ben Rivers
The 20th edition of the 25 FPS Festival brings two special, yet very different performances as part of its Expanded Cinema program section. We are also very excited to welcome Ben Rivers and his new film Bogancloch at our Festival.
For the first Expanded Cinema performance, the pseudo-marxist media guerilla Total Refusal promises to take us on a digital (art) walk through the virtual spaces of the video game GTA V – Everyday Daylight. Similar to their previous works, some of which were shown at the Festival (most notably, their film How to Disappear earned them the Grand prix in 2020), their live ingame lecture performance also explores and stages various strategies for artistic intervention in contemporary video game world, done by appropriating and rededicating available resources. Three performers/lecturers will guide us through a number of artworks by different artists exhibited inside the video game. Everyday Daylight is screening on Friday, September 27, 10 pm at Kino Kinoteka.
The other performance to expand the cinema is analog in nature; Prague-based experimental filmmaker Jan Kulka will screen his Patterns, handmade film created by printing on a 60mm film base, using a special projecting apparatus designed for film understood as an 'articulation of light' – the Archeoscope. In this performance, Kulka is interested in examining the cinematic potential of regular, repetitive structures, revealed when projected in many different ways. The resulting audiovisual struggle between chaos and order brings into question the established tradition and technology in cinema. Kulka’s performance is set to close the Festival, on Saturday, September 28, at 9.30 pm, at Kino Kinoteka.
In addition to the two performances, this year’s Festival edition promises one additional treat – award-winning Ben Rivers will arrive in Zagreb to present his latest feature Bogancloch. Rivers’ work treads a fine line between documentary and fiction; it often centers on hermits and social outcasts, while creating oblique narratives imagining alternative existences. For this film he returns to his old film subject, Jake Williams, and observes his life in the forests of Scotland, as it unfolds through various seasons. His lone wolf lifestyle is only interrupted by occasional visitors and passers-by. The film and Q&A are scheduled for Wednesday, September 25, 6 pm at Kino Kinoteka.