PANEL DISCUSSION: ARCHIVES AND THE SEARCH FOR NATIONAL (FILM) IDENTITY /
PANEL DISCUSSION: ARCHIVES AND THE SEARCH FOR NATIONAL (FILM) IDENTITY /
Archives and the search for national (film) identity
Panel discussion
Participants: Matevž Jerman, Marina Kožul, Mariya Nikiforova, Ivan Ramljak, Ulrich Ziemons
Moderator: Varja Močnik
The panel discussion will be in English.
Free tickets will be available one hour before the event.
National (and other) film archives hold and manage film collections that are an important building block of the national cultural identities. But the selection of the foregrounded film titles – the ones we restore, digitise and/or show – is often in the hands of individuals or narrow expert groups. Who writes film and cultural history, and how? Do national cinemas even exist as an objective starting point?
PARTICIPANTS:
Mariya Nikiforova (1986, Russia/USSR) obtained her MA in cinema and AV art from the Sorbonne and is currently a PhD candidate at Paris 8 (Saint- Denis). She is the Film Collection and Documentation Centre Manager at Light Cone, a French distributor and archive of experimental cinema. She is a film curator, author of many papers and publications on film and a filmmaker. She is also a member of L’Abomniable, an art cooperative and film laboratory in Paris.
Ulrich Ziemons (1982, Germany) has been head of Forum Expanded since 2021 (until 2024, together with Ala Younis). Since 2006, he has worked for Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art in various capacities. Since 2012, he has been a member of the curatorial team of Forum Expanded. In addition to his work at the Arsenal, he has been a member of selection committees for short film programmes of various festivals.
Marina Kožul (1978, Croatia/Yugoslavia) works for the 25 FPS Association for Audio-Visual Research, a non-profit organisation in Zagreb. At the 25 FPS Festival, she works as one of the programmers and producers. She has curated programmes for festivals and art cinemas and has promoted Croatian experimental film, video and animation at European and international film and media events. Since 2012, she has worked for the International Film Festival Rotterdam as a consultant for short films.
Ivan Ramljak (1974, Croatia/Yugoslavia) is a filmmaker, film critic and independent curator. He founded the Human Rights Film Festival in Zagreb. He has curated the Short Tuesday film programme at the Tuškanac cinema in Zagreb and he has been the Artistic Director of the Tabor Film Festival. His films have been shown at more than 80 international festivals. He is a member of the International Film Festival Rotterdam selection committee for shorts and serves as a scout for films from former Yugoslav countries.
Matevž Jerman (1984, Slovenia/Yugoslavia) is a film director and film curator. He is one of the co-founders of the Kraken Association for the Promotion 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 programming department, where he has been curating short film programmes and researching special avant-garde collections.