Conversation and projection
Wednesday, 20. 3. 2024, 19.00
Project Room SCCA, Metelkova 6, Ljubljana
As part of the back2back events, we invite domestic and international authors to present their production and establish a dialogue with works from the DIVA station archive of their own choice. This time we invited screenwriter and director Niko Jurman , author of the award-winning short film Borbike .
I made the Independent Short Film Borbike (2022) with Barbie dolls, which were set in motion by stop animation, and various filters then added some facial expressions and emotions to their beautiful but expressionless faces. The Film is about an artist who moved from the village to Ljubljana, but can no longer afford city life. To earn some money, she goes to a prestigious party where high society cats not only make fun of her artistic idea – they are amused especially by her village origin. Humiliated, she leaves the city and heads to the village for an artist's residence, where she will be able to stay and eat for free for a while.
The films I selected from the archive are about following my heart, parodying conventions, the joy of seeing friends succeed and appear on TV, the financial situation of kulturnic women, the dream of their own home, the aesthetics of Slovenian houses, the recognition of their own patterns, Ljubljana as the centre of Slovenia, the power dynamics between urban and rural, the appearance, urban people having fun in the village, and nostalgia.
Nika Jurman
Programme
Selection: Nika Jurman
Duration: 53'
Ana Morales (luxury production), Cinema island izola 2005
2005, 7′ 50″
Miha Vipotnik, Room 2
1986, 1′ 53″
Rok Sieberer-Kuri, Teletext
2001, 35″
Nika Jurman, Borbike
2022, 15′
Lada Cerar, Blow Away My Accounts
2012, 2′ 51″
Vesna Bukovec, my dream, beautiful apartment
2010, 4′ 8″
Ivor Glavas & Javier Cebrian (luxury production), Euro House
2018, 2′ 45″
I am going to create something beautiful
2011, 4′
Rok Sieberer-Kuri, Ljubljana Trafik
2006, 1′ 30″
Vesna Bukovec, Endless Game
1990, 5′ 39″
Rock Sieberer-Kuri
1990, 2′ 38″
Polonca Lovshin, always better
2002, 1′ 27″
Mirko Simi / small terrace
1992, 3′ 11″
Nika Jurman (1991) is a screenwriter and director. By education, she holds a master's degree in philosophy and Comparative Literature and a bachelor's degree in francistics. Interested primarily in comedy, she began her writing career by writing a television series for two (2015-2017). The script for the first feature film, together with director Ester Ivakic, was written from a collection of short stories by Suzane Tratnik and has a long title Ida, who sang so ugly that the still dead rose from the dead and sang with her . The Film is just in editing. The year before last she wrote and directed the First Animated Short Film Borbike (2022) and won Vesna for Best Animated film at the Slovenian Film Festival. She is currently developing her first feature short film, which she will direct in the fall. (Photo: personal archive)
Photo: SCCA Archive-Ljubljana
Diva station is an online and physical archive developed by SCCA-Ljubljana since 2005 with the aim of researching, documenting, archiving and presenting art film, video and New Media Art.
Videospotting are curated overview and thematic programs of video art in the form of lectures, public discussions, exhibitions and screenings, created since 1994.
Production: SCCA-Ljubljana / Diva station
Support: Ministry of culture of the Republic of Slovenia, City of Ljubljana - Department of culture
Pogovor in projekcija
Sreda, 20. 3. 2024, 19.00
Projektna soba SCCA, Metelkova 6, Ljubljana
V okviru dogodkov Back2Back vabimo domače in mednarodne avtorice_je, da predstavijo svojo produkcijo in vzpostavijo dialog z deli iz arhiva Postaja DIVA po lastnem izboru. Tokrat smo povabili scenaristko in režiserko Niko Jurman , avtorico nagrajenega kratkega filma Borbike .
Neodvisni kratki film Borbike (2022) sem naredila z lutkami Barbie, ki jih je stop animacija spravila v gibanje, razni filtri pa so nato njihovim lepim, a brezizraznim obrazom dodali nekaj mimike in čustev. Film govori o umetnici, ki se je z vasi preselila v Ljubljano, a si mestnega življenja ne more več privoščiti. Da bi zaslužila nekaj denarja, se odpravi na prestižno zabavo, kjer se mačke iz visoke družbe ne norčujejo le iz njene umetniške ideje – zabava jih zlasti njeno vaško poreklo. Ponižana zapusti mesto in se odpravi na vas na umetniško rezidenco, kjer bo lahko nekaj časa zastonj bivala in jedla.
Filmi, ki sem jih izbrala iz arhiva, govorijo o sledenju svojemu srcu, parodiranju konvencij, veselju, ko prijateljicam_em uspe in se pojavijo na televiziji, finančnem položaju kulturnic_kov, sanjah o lastnem domu, estetiki slovenskih hiš, prepoznavanju lastnih vzorcev, Ljubljani kot centru Slovenije, dinamiki moči med urbanim in ruralnim, videzu, mestnih ljudeh, ki se zabavajo na vasi, in nostalgiji.
Nika Jurman
PROGRAM
Izbor: Nika Jurman
Trajanje: 53′
Ana Morales (Luksuz produkcija), Kino otok izola 2005
2005, 7′ 50″
Miha Vipotnik, Prostor 2
1986, 1′ 53″
Rok Sieberer – Kuri, Teletekst
2001, 35″
Nika Jurman, Borbike
2022, 15′
Lada Cerar, Odpihni moje račune
2012, 2′ 51″
Vesna Bukovec, Moje sanje, lepo stanovanje
2010, 4′ 8″
Ivor Glavaš & Javier Cebrian (Luksuz produkcija), Euro House
2018, 2′ 45″
Vesna Bukovec, When I wake up, I am going to create something beautiful
2011, 4′
Rok Sieberer – Kuri, Ljubljana Trafik
2006, 1′ 30″
Vesna Bukovec, Endless Game
1990, 5′ 39″
Rok Sieberer – Kuri, Yello žur
1990, 2′ 38″
Polonca Lovšin, Vedno boljša
2002, 1′ 27″
Mirko Simić, Mala terasa
1992, 3′ 11″
Nika Jurman (1991) je scenaristka in režiserka. Po izobrazbi je magistrica filozofije in primerjalne književnosti ter diplomirana francistka. Ker jo zanima predvsem komedija, je svojo scenaristično pot začela s pisanjem televizijske serije V dvoje (2015–2017). Scenarij za prvi igrani celovečerni film sta skupaj z režiserko Ester Ivakič napisali po zbirki kratkih zgodb Suzane Tratnik in ima dolg naslov Ida, ki je pela tako grdo, da so še mrtvi vstali od mrtvih in zapeli z njo . Film je ravnokar v montaži. Predlani je napisala in režirala prvi animirani kratki film Borbike (2022) in na Festivalu slovenskega filma zanj dobila vesno za najboljši animirani film. Trenutno razvija svoj prvi igrani kratki film, ki ga bo režirala jeseni. (Foto: osebni arhiv)
Foto: Arhiv SCCA-Ljubljana
Postaja DIVA je spletni in fizični arhiv, ki ga SCCA-Ljubljana razvija od leta 2005 z namenom raziskovanja, dokumentiranja, arhiviranja in predstavljanja umetniškega filma, videa in novomedijske umetnosti.
Videospotting so kurirani pregledni in tematski programi video umetnosti v obliki predavanj, javnih diskusij, razstav in projekcij, ki nastajajo od leta 1994.
Produkcija: SCCA-Ljubljana/Postaja DIVA
Podpora: Ministrstvo za kulturo RS, Mestna občina Ljubljana – Oddelek za kulturo
