PLEASE SHOW AN APPROPRIATE PROOF OF COMPLIANCE WITH THE RVT (Recovered / Vaccinated / Tested) RULE AND A PERSONAL DOCUMENT AT THE ENTRANCE. Proofs aren’t required for visitors aged under 12 attending the event with close family members or guardians. SURGICAL OR FFP2 MASKS ARE MANDATORY.

AnimatekaPRO is the Animateka festival platform for animation professionals and students. It is a place where one can learn about the latest trends, be updated on the latest developments, and meet outstanding film professionals while exploring the world of animated film.

AnimatekaPRO traditionally features breakfasts with authors, where the curators of the Official Competition dive into in-depth conversations with the visiting filmmakers. For the fifth consecutive year, the AnimatekaPRO Pitch competition for projects in development will provide insight into the state of animation in ex-Yugoslav countries. The competition will be followed by Anna Vašova’s masterclass on pitching for beginners and complemented with presentations of some local works in progress.

As part of the HerStory retrospective, its curators will discuss the specifics of curating themed programmes, while a panel of speakers will talk about gender equality in animation.

Events for professionals also include masterclasses, a chance to learn more about the production activity and creative work of some of this year’s jurors, and VR case studies. The programme will wrap up with a CEE Animation Festival Network panel discussion, where representatives of five festivals from the region will talk about distribution, accessibility, and audiences.

All AnimatekaPRO events are in English and are available with free registration on the festival platform.

Schedule

Tuesday, 30. 11.
10:00 AnimatekaPRO Pitch 2021: Pitching competition for projects from ex-Yugoslav countries
11:45 Masterclass: Anna Vašova (13ka, CZ), Pitching for beginners: Tips & Tricks
12:45 Regional work in progress: Zarja Menart (Finta, SI), Three birds (animated short in development)
13:30 Regional work in progress: Timon Leder: Mouse house (Invida, SI) (animated short in development)
14:15 Regional work in progress: Chintis Lundgren, Draško Ivezić (Chintis Lundgreni Animatsioonistuudio (EE), Adriatic Animation (HR), MIYU (FR)), Manivald and the Absinthe Rabbits (animated series in development)
15:00 AnimatekaPRO Pitch 2021 Award Winner Announcement

Wednesday, 1. 12.
10:00 Breakfast with authors
12:15 Discussion: HerStory – A curators’ view, Talk with Igor Prassel (Animateka, SI) and Olga Bobrowska (StopTrik IFF, SI/PL)
13:30 Panel Discussion: Gender equality in animation: Education, production and distribution, chaired by Urška Jež (City of Women, SI), speakers Tina Smrekar (Finta, SI), Maja Gherig (CH), Luce Grosjean (MIYU, FR), Matea Milić (Animafest Zagreb, HR)

Thursday, 2. 12.
10:00 Breakfast with authors
12:15 Producer in Person Dora Benousilio (Les Films d’Arlequin, FR)
13:15 Presentation: Keep festive: A festival toolbox to feel easy, not queasy, Luce Grosjean (MIYU, FR) and Clémence Bragard (AFCA/ASIFA-France)

Friday, 3. 12.
10:00 Breakfast with authors
12:15 Masterclass: Uri Kranot (DK), Process of working in non-linear immersive storytelling and the difference between the VR version and the film
13:15 Case study: Milivoj & Veljko Popović (Prime Render Studio, HR), Dislocation

Saturday, 4. 12.
10:00 Breakfast with authors
12:15 Masterclass: Maja Gehrig (CH)
13:00 Masterclass: Soetkin Verstegen (BL)
13:45 Panel discussion: CEE Animation Festival Network: Future of distribution, accessibility and audiences

PLEASE SHOW AN APPROPRIATE PROOF OF COMPLIANCE WITH THE RVT (Recovered / Vaccinated / Tested) RULE AND A PERSONAL DOCUMENT AT THE ENTRANCE. Proofs aren’t required for visitors aged under 12 attending the event with close family members or guardians. SURGICAL OR FFP2 MASKS ARE MANDATORY.

AnimatekaPRO is the Animateka festival platform for animation professionals and students. It is a place where one can learn about the latest trends, be updated on the latest developments, and meet outstanding film professionals while exploring the world of animated film.

AnimatekaPRO traditionally features breakfasts with authors, where the curators of the Official Competition dive into in-depth conversations with the visiting filmmakers. For the fifth consecutive year, the AnimatekaPRO Pitch competition for projects in development will provide insight into the state of animation in ex-Yugoslav countries. The competition will be followed by Anna Vašova’s masterclass on pitching for beginners and complemented with presentations of some local works in progress.

As part of the HerStory retrospective, its curators will discuss the specifics of curating themed programmes, while a panel of speakers will talk about gender equality in animation.

Events for professionals also include masterclasses, a chance to learn more about the production activity and creative work of some of this year’s jurors, and VR case studies. The programme will wrap up with a CEE Animation Festival Network panel discussion, where representatives of five festivals from the region will talk about distribution, accessibility, and audiences.

All AnimatekaPRO events are in English and are available with free registration on the festival platform.

Schedule

Tuesday, 30. 11.
10:00 AnimatekaPRO Pitch 2021: Pitching competition for projects from ex-Yugoslav countries
11:45 Masterclass: Anna Vašova (13ka, CZ), Pitching for beginners: Tips & Tricks
12:45 Regional work in progress: Zarja Menart (Finta, SI), Three birds (animated short in development)
13:30 Regional work in progress: Timon Leder: Mouse house (Invida, SI) (animated short in development)
14:15 Regional work in progress: Chintis Lundgren, Draško Ivezić (Chintis Lundgreni Animatsioonistuudio (EE), Adriatic Animation (HR), MIYU (FR)), Manivald and the Absinthe Rabbits (animated series in development)
15:00 AnimatekaPRO Pitch 2021 Award Winner Announcement

Wednesday, 1. 12.
10:00 Breakfast with authors
12:15 Discussion: HerStory – A curators’ view, Talk with Igor Prassel (Animateka, SI) and Olga Bobrowska (StopTrik IFF, SI/PL)
13:30 Panel Discussion: Gender equality in animation: Education, production and distribution, chaired by Urška Jež (City of Women, SI), speakers Tina Smrekar (Finta, SI), Maja Gherig (CH), Luce Grosjean (MIYU, FR), Matea Milić (Animafest Zagreb, HR)

Thursday, 2. 12.
10:00 Breakfast with authors
12:15 Producer in Person Dora Benousilio (Les Films d’Arlequin, FR)
13:15 Presentation: Keep festive: A festival toolbox to feel easy, not queasy, Luce Grosjean (MIYU, FR) and Clémence Bragard (AFCA/ASIFA-France)

Friday, 3. 12.
10:00 Breakfast with authors
12:15 Masterclass: Uri Kranot (DK), Process of working in non-linear immersive storytelling and the difference between the VR version and the film
13:15 Case study: Milivoj & Veljko Popović (Prime Render Studio, HR), Dislocation

Saturday, 4. 12.
10:00 Breakfast with authors
12:15 Masterclass: Maja Gehrig (CH)
13:00 Masterclass: Soetkin Verstegen (BL)
13:45 Panel discussion: CEE Animation Festival Network: Future of distribution, accessibility and audiences

PLEASE SHOW AN APPROPRIATE PROOF OF COMPLIANCE WITH THE RVT (Recovered / Vaccinated / Tested) RULE AND A PERSONAL DOCUMENT AT THE ENTRANCE. Proofs aren’t required for visitors aged under 12 attending the event with close family members or guardians. SURGICAL OR FFP2 MASKS ARE MANDATORY.

We know, but cannot grasp, that above and below, beyond the limits of perception or imagination, thousands and millions of simultaneous transformations are at work, interlinked.
Stanisław Lem, Solaris

Such a sense of disorientation is established by Lem’s Solaris, which is riddled on the one hand with clear categorizations and factuality, and on the other with perplexity and unexplained tension. However, The Vibration of an Individual String is not an interpretation of the Lem’s literary work, but a stage experiment stimulated only by glimpses, fragments of meanings and topics, which tests some of the novel’s impulses in a movement-stage framework.

The presences of the bodies and their diverse vocabularies are trying to operate in a space that establishes its own rules. The ontology is not known in advance, its coordinates are not explicitly written anywhere, and yet the trajectories of the journey through it express them all the time. It is an involuntary movement determined by the outside, by the points of gravity that guide the body past each other, as well as closer and closer. Is an encounter inevitable? And what kind of contact occurs at the intersection of vague narrative lines, fragmented logic, and imperfect meaning? Perhaps merely a sober realization of one’s own limitations, which often destroys many expectations and aspirations.

Dance is therefore a binding force, intermediacy of external points, the flesh of solitudes, of bodies. It is a movement that mends distances, while still retaining the qualities of differences. A list of bodily remains, gestures, poses, postures, expressions, phrases, sequences – an accumulated small scale past of one’s own (stage) world and the roaring transformation of the (un)imagined whole. Maybe even the upcoming one, the one that is already almost here.

Choreography and dance: Katarzyna Chmielewska, Magdalena Reiter, Jakub Truszkowski
Video, set design, lighting design: Atej Tutta
Dramaturgy: Rok Bozovičar
Music: Radosław Duda
Costume design: Ana Savić Gecan

Production: Magdalena Reiter, Tina Dobnik for Mirabelka Institute (SI), Michal Jankowski for Teatr Dada von Bzdülöw (PL)
Co-production: Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Ljubljana
Partners: Bunker (SI), Teatr Wybrzeże (PL), GAK Winda (PL)
Slovenian premiere: 10. 12. 2021, Old Power Station – Elektro Ljubljana
Polish premiere: 18. 12. 2021, Teatr Wybrzeże, Gdańsk

The performance is co-financed by the City of Ljubljana – Department of Culture, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, and the City of Gdansk