Welcome to 12th 25 FPS Festival edition!
Take your pick, make your own schedule and share some of your time with us and fantastic filmmakers in the following days. Right after Reflexes, program of Croatian films, join us for the festival opening at 20:00 and first Competition program. Admission is free.
In a fantastic moment of reverse biology, urban interiors prey on their harmless random travellers, devour them and digest them in the shape of small fidgety anthills. The flora of Korčula emits a sonic wall and fills the entire landscape. A metropolis is upgraded ad falls apart through the history of an unfinished utopian vision of modernism. Ghosts of the past of a mega-city rise from the grave to tell their tale and project a mental image of a curious and near future. Welcome to Reflexes, a line-up gathering four outstanding titles by Croatian filmmakers: Miranda Herceg, Ana Hušman, Darko Fritz, Dane Komljen and James Lattimer. At 6pm their views on spaces from all four corners of awareness will help us liven up the space of SC Cinema and open it up for our four-day bestiary of cinephilia.
After the opening at 8pm, the Competition begins. Today’s first bloc speaks about ‘standards’: how we perceive them and how much they condition a work of art. Suspicious, chromophobic technical settings during the shooting process reveal uncomfortable social practices (Lili), the spirit of Zagreb School of Animation is literally reanimated (Moving Elements), mythical, real and sci-fi landscapes are ground together in a lost film fragment from the future (A Distant Episode), Norwegian folklore myths suffer a panic attack under the stroboscopic light (Boyg) and techno-pops dreams of life without resolution (B-Roll with Andre).
Short lens, wide field: we will wrap up the night at &TD theatre with Bruce McLure. Our dear guest from Brooklyn is all warmed up are ready for us ‘where obstacles replace transitions’, with the first of his three multi-projector festival performances. Great fun guaranteed, undamaged sound and vision receptors – not so much!