Vesna Bukovec

Video in Progress 5: Reflections of the Past

Video in Progress 5: Reflections of the Past
International video festival

5-7 June 2014
CUK Kino Šiška and Atrij ZRC, Ljubljana

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Video in Progress is an international video festival, directed by artists and curators Vesna Bukovec and Metka Zupanič and organised by Zavod Kolektiva in collaboration with Photon – Centre for Contemporary Photography, Ljubljana. In 2014, the festival joined with Photonic Moments – Month of Photography festival.

The fifth edition brings forth a variety of contemporary international video art addressing the issues of past times and memories. In this edition the selectors took up the research of time and transitoriness. They were interested in how the common historical narratives intertwines with personal memories and how they both affect our identity and our sense of being in the world. At a time of multimedia culture, saturated with numerous events and information quickly sliding into oblivion, memories become fragile and evasive. Because of that there is a need to constantly interpret or reinterpret past events in order to make sense out of our present society and our actions as individuals.

In the previous edition of the festival the topic of pain was explored from a personal perspective. With the current festival edition the selectors expanded their research of the presence of pain in everyday life to include a wider socio-political context marked by turbulent historical events of the past century leading up to the present moment. The selected videos each address pain from a particular historical moment in a specific way.

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PROGRAMME:

Main Selection
APPROPRIATING HISTORY
Artists: Ana Bilankov (HR/DE), Lana Čmajčanin & Adela Jušić (BA), Aleksandra Domanović (RS/DE), Marina Gržinić & Aina Šmid (SI), Vladislav Knežević (HR), Iva Kontić (RS)
Curated by: Vesna Bukovec & Metka Zupanič (SI)

Artist in Focus
ANJA MEDVED
Talk and screenings

Guest Selections
100×100=900 (100 VIDEO ARTISTS TO TELL A CENTURY)
A project by internaional video festival Magmart, Italy
Artistic director: Enrico Tomaselli

THE AFRICAN TIME MACHINE
Artists: Bofa da Cara (AO/ES), Sammy Baloji (CG), Aryan Kaganof (ZA), Theo Eshetu (ET), Kgafela oa Magogodi & Jyoti Mistry (ZA), Ezra Wube (US/ET), Julia Raynham (ZA), Neil Beloufa (DZ/FR)
Curated by: Silke Schmickl, Mickaël Robert-Gonçalves, Jeremy Chua (Lowave, Paris)

Student Productions
URBAN STORIES
School of Arts, University of Nova Gorica (UNG VŠU)
Selected by: Rene Rusjan

More about the festival
Screening Schedule
Previous editions of Video in Progress