ALPE-ADRIA UNDERGROUND! /
ALPE-ADRIA UNDERGROUND! /
Alpe-Adria Underground!
Matevž Jerman, Jurij Meden, Slovenia, 2024, DCP, 1.78, colour, 98', english subtitles
Between 2013 and 2023, Slovenian Cinematheque preserved and digitized 179 short films created on a tiny stretch of land between the Alps and the Adriatic Sea in the period of socialism (1945-1991), but mostly outside state production. Today, we belatedly recognize these films as an important, innovative part of the Slovenian film heritage. The production of Alpe-Adria Underground! has radically accelerated efforts to preserve, digitize and restore this segment of Slovenian cinema.
Screening in the presence of the authors.
Matevž Jerman (1984, Slovenia/Yugoslavia) is a film director and film cura- tor. He is one of the co-founders of the Kraken Association for the Promoti- on of Short Film and the Programme Director of FeKK - Ljubljana Short Film Festival. He collaborates with festivals Kino Otok - Isola Cinema and LIFFe. Since 2009 he has been working with the Slovenian Cinematheque's program- ming department, where he has been curating short film programmes and researching special avant-garde collections.
Jurij Meden (1977, Slovenia/Yugoslavia) is a curator and head of film pro- gram at the Austrian Film Museum in Vienna. Previously he worked as head of the program department at the Slovenian Cinematheque in Ljubljana and as curator of film exhibitions at the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York.