Screening of film/video oeuvre 1998–2025
Programme at Slovenian Cinematheque, Vodnikova domačija and Slovenian Film Database (December 2025 – June 2026)
17 December / 21 January / 18 February / 24 March / 21 April / 8 May / 10 June
Production: SCCA-Ljubljana and Slovenian Cinematheque
Curators: Vesna Bukovec, Robert Kuret
Nadja Velušček and Anja Medved are mother and daughter, documentary filmmakers, and keen researchers of the Slovenian-Italian border region. They have created an extensive body of video and film work in which they address issues of national identity, explore the relationship between collective and intimate social memory, and address the elusive concept of borders. Since the Velušček-Medved duo mainly produces medium-length documentary films, we have created a series of film pairs to provide an overview of their creative oeuvre. We wanted to design the programme, collectively titled Zone of Transition, in such a way that the juxtaposed films would articulate the concept of borders and borderlands each time anew, and we divided it into seven sections: Gorizia / Nova Gorica, Memory / Document, Environment / Territory, Water Level / Watercourse, Peace / War, Violence / Compassion, Departures / Arrivals.
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Talk and screening, 17 October 2025, Project Room SCCA
Back2Back is a series of events where we invite local and international authors to present their production and establish a dialogue with works of their choice from the DIVA Station archive. We have invited director, screenwriter, director of photography, and musician Juš Premrov.
Participating: Zmago Lenárdič, Sašo Podgoršek, Nataša Skušek in Mladen Stropnik, Anne Tassel, Duba Sambolec in Pernilla Edholm, Rok Sieberer – Kuri, Matevž Jerman in Matevž Rener.
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Screening and talk on Friday, 19 September 2025, 7 pm at the inner courtyard of Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana.
The selection of new works in the DIVA Station archive is linked by the theme of nature as a space of various forms of endangerment, but also of regeneration and survival.
Participating: Jaka Vatovec, Sasha Ihnatovich, Jatun Risba, Lea Culetto, DNLM, Polonca Lovšin, Nejc Trampuž
Curator: Vesna Bukovec
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Screening and talk on Friday, 29 August 2025, 8 pm at the inner courtyard of Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana.
The selected film programme reflects on borders as social constructs. Not only geographical and political, but also historical, perceptual, normative and existential. Borders that determine who enters and who exits, who is visible and who is erased, who has a voice and who among us is an alien. At a time when borders are closing and control is tightening, the question of how to think about borders, how to understand and cross them, becomes ever more urgent.
Participating: Pablo Ballarín (ES/PL), Maja Bojanić (SI), Julie Černá (CZ), Ana Čigon (SI), Léo Mourey (FR/EE), Emilija Škarnulytė (LT)
Curator: Lene Lekše (SI)
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Screening and talk on Friday, 4 July 2025, 9 pm at the inner courtyard of Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana.
The programme begins with microorganisms that can only be seen under a microscope, and through this – in film terms – close-up, it slowly approaches human characters. However, they seem to be expressions of some impersonal forces: something is within their bodies, and it works through them. The functioning of human bodies and the possibility of knowing it is necessarily linked to the development of technology and spiritual practices. The body becomes open: a phenomenon that lies between an organism and a multitude of sub-organisms, exhibiting the capacity to self-organise and an abstraction into code or information that can be manipulated.
Participating: Uršula Berlot, Tina Ščavničar, Ester Ivakič, Teja Miholič, Hannah Koselj Marušič, Luka Dekleva, Luka Prinčič
Curator: Robert Kuret
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