Talk and screening
Thursday, 8 October 2026, 7:30 pm
Project Room SCCA, Metelkova 6, Ljubljana
As part of the Back2Back events, we invite local and international artists to present their work and engage in a dialogue with pieces from the Postaja DIVA archive of their own choosing. Multimedia artist Gregor Kocjančič, creator of the award-winning experimental short film Ninth Village (Deveta Vas, 2025) and its sequel, Ninth Peak (Deveti Vrh, 2026) compiled the programme as a journey through maps and places, exploring the connections between villages and cities.
PROGRAMME
The village grew into a city
Curator: Gregor Kocjančič
Duration: 55′
This documentary, investigative and, to some extent, experimental adventure will take us from the countryside to the city centre and, finally, to the high mountains. We will explore Slovenian villages, the town of Krško and its surroundings, where we will seek out LGBTQ+ communities. We will continue to the capital, to the former autonomous Rog factory, and listen to passers-by as they tell us which woman they would erect a monument to in Ljubljana. Accompanied by jazz music, we will stroll through the city, pass through Sarajevo, and slowly rise above the clouds. To round things off, we will head back home and explore Slovenia’s peaks.
2025, 4′ 25′′
2019, 2′ 22′′
2007, 6′ 27′′
2015, 9′ 30′′
2013, 9′ 2′′
2002, 4′ 5′′
2000, 7′ 30′′
2024, 4′ 29′′
2026, 6′ 31′′
Gregor Kocjančič is a director, screenwriter, editor, animator and musician. He has worked in live-action, animated, experimental, and documentary film, as well as music videos, for 15 years. Last year, he received the Audience Award for Best Film at the 11th FeKK Festival for his short documentary Ninth Village (Deveta vas, 2025), and this year he received the Jury Award for Best Story at the 11th SHOTS Festival. (Photo: personal archive)
DIVA Station is a physical and web archive of video and new-media art which has been developing since 2005 and is also a broader compendium of SCCA projects that seek to research, present, document and archive video/new-media art.
Videospotting are curated and thematic programs of video art, which have been created since 1994 in the form of lectures, public discussions, exhibitions and screenings.
Production: SCCA-Ljubljana/DIVA Station
Supported by: City of Ljubljana – Department for Culture
