Mika Taanila

Mika Taanila

25fps

25FPS FILM FESTIVAL: THE SHAPES OF CONTEMPORARY IMAGES

By Petra Belc

More than half a century ago a group of film enthusiasts gathered around cine-club Zagreb to initiate what would decades later be recognized as one of the first festivals of experimental cinema in the European context: GEFF, the Genre Film Festival (1963—1970). In its first edition, inspired by a series of cine-club conversations revolving around the theme of antifilm, the GEFF organizers argued in favour of a pure exploratory cinema

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Film Festival Reports

OBERHAUSEN 2018: VARIETY OF SHORTNESS

By Vladimir Seput

To spend six spring days in Germany sounds like a good idea, particularly when you are visiting one of the main international film festivals in the world dedicated to short films in Oberhausen, known in German as Kurzfilmtage. I arrived there for the first time this year, as a part of the Seminar that was organized for the fifth time as a laboratory for filmmakers, curators and critics. This year’s Seminar led by the always inspiring artist, writer and filmmaker Roee Rosen, gathered a diverse and stimulating group which shared and discussed problems, ideas and issues of contemporary visual arts and filmmaking.

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