DIVA Station & Videospotting & Short Film Night
Thank you for your attention!
Video screening from DIVA Station archive

Short Film Night: Wednesday, 21 December 2016, 23pm
Slovenian Cinematheque, Miklošičeva 28, Ljubljana

On the winter solstice, the longest night of the year, SCCA-Ljubljana joins the initiative of promoting and supporting short filmography with a selection of works from its DIVA station archive.

For this opportunity on the 21th of December the Slovene Cinematheque will host numerous programmes showing a huge selection of short films from 5.00 pm. Short film night will offer a colourful display of works, finishing in early morning hours.

A selection of works from DIVA station, prepared by Neža Grum and Luka Polutnik titled Thank you for your attention! will be shown at 11.00 pm.

Welcome!

Thank you for your attention!

In today's time we face an abundance of information, which are outlining our daily routines and often divert out attention. The curated video programme explores attention deficiency on two levels. The selection of six video works tries to catch the viewers’ attention and at the same time test it and look for reasons for its absence. It tackles it with humour, sexuality, meditation and spirituality, provocation, repetitivity and materiality. Subjects, which are each in its own way connected with the search for meaning and for that reason, present a potential escape, might in the right balance offer a solution. For what exactly? Well, that is a whole other question.

Duration: 52''
Curators: Neža Grum and Luka Polutnik
Production: SCCA-Ljubljana, 2016
Premiere: Short Film Night: 21 December 2016, Slovenian Cinematheque, Ljubljana

Selected works:

• Oliver Marčeta: Jesus von New Orleans, 1994, 2'50''
• Jasna Hribernik: House of Contrasts, 1998, 20'17''
• Ana Sluga: Still Life I/, 2011, 2'30''
• Mark Požlep: Soft machine, 2010, 9'53''
• Nataša Prosenc Stearns: Betonski človek (The Concrete Man), 1995, 15'29''
• Ana Čigon: OHOHO, 2015, 1'30''

The third Short Film Night all around Slovenia

On Winter Solstice on 21 December, the sun will rise at 7:41 and set at 16:19. The day will only be 8 hours and 38 minutes long. On this day five years ago, France thought of the shortest film format and founded the International Short Film Day. The number of countries participating in the event is increasing steeply: this year more than fifty countries will take part in it worldwide. Slovenia joined the event in 2014. At the initiative of the Slovenian Film Centre, on 21 December the selected cinemas will be showing short films for the third time in a row.

Slovenian Cinematheque, where the central event will take place, will screen films in the following categories: classics, animated films for adults, a selection from the the 19th Festival of Slovenian Film, student films of the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television and the Academy of Arts of the University of Nova Gorica, a selection of the DIVA Station archive (SCCA, Centre for Contemporary Arts – Ljubljana), and a selection from the Ljubljana Short Film Festival.

Also this year, the Slovenian Film Centre invited the following institutions to participate in the preparation of the programme: the Directors Guild of Slovenia, Slovenian Animated Film Association, Kraken Film Society, Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television, Academy of Arts of the University of Nova Gorica, Slovenian Film Archive of the Archives of the Republic of Slovenia, and the SCCA, Centre for Contemporary Arts – Ljubljana/ DIVA Station. Viba Film Studio will contribute technical assistance.

The events are free and some of the films will also be shown on the Vimeo channel of the Slovenian Film Centre.

How many shorts do therefore fit into the longest night?
Programme (pdf)

DIVA Station is a physical and on-line archive of video art which is being developed since 2005 at SCCA – Ljubljana, Center for Contemporary Arts with the intent to research, document, present and archive video/media art in Slovenia.

Videospotting is a series of curated programs of video art in Slovenia produced and presented by SCCA-Ljubljana in solo screenings, exhibitions, lectures, and at international festivals, exhibitions, meetings (Basel, Moscow, Los Angeles, Tallinn, Sarajevo, St. Petersburg, Vienna, Almaty, Oslo, Prishtine, Cairo, Beijing, Luxemburg, etc.)

Supported by: City of Ljubljana – Department for Culture
Videospotting online documentation: Vesna Bukovec

[Published December 11, 2016]