Événement

Slovenian 8mm Experiments: Karpo Godina and Davorin Marc

Avant-garde Cinema from Ex-Yugoslavia: 1950s-80s

May 20

(83 min, Super 8mm/35mm/digital video, 1965-1981)

Wednesday, May 20 at 07:30PM

Karpo Godina launched his career in the mid-sixties with a succession of 8mm experimental shorts, predominantly designed to question everything he was being taught at the state film academy. In retrospect, it seems as if Godina had to go through this romantic, frantic phase in order to arrive at what he became famous for: extracting as much (political) action and dynamics as possible from meticulously framed, perfectly still images. Emerging a decade after Godina, the post-punk Davorin Marc remains a subject for further research. Notoriously reclusive and with over 150 super-8mm and 16mm films under his belt, he modestly describes his work as "small films."
Jurij Meden

Screening Program

GAME (DIVJAD)Karpo Godina, Jure Pervanje, Yugoslavia, 1965, 6 mins @ 18 fps, Silent with separate sound on CD, B&W, 8mm transferred to 35mm

DOG (PES)Karpo Godina, Mario Uršić, Yugoslavia, 1965, 8 mins @ 18 fps, Silent with separate sound on CD, B&W, 8mm transferred to 35mm

ANNO PASSATO (A.P.)Karpo Godina, Yugoslavia, 1966, 5 mins @ 18 fps, Silent with separate sound on CD, B&W, 8mm transferred to 35mm

THE GRATINATED BRAINS OF PUPILIJA FERKEVERK (GRATINIRANI MOZAK PUPILIJE FERKEVERK)Karpo Godina, Yugoslavia, 1970, 15 mins, Color, 35mm

BITE ME. ONCE ALREADY (UGRIZNI ME. ŽE ENKRAT)Davorin Marc, Yugoslavia, 1978/80, 1:35 mins, Silent, Color, Super 8mm

SLAUGHTER AHOY (EJ KLANJE)Davorin Marc, Yugoslavia, 1981, 16 mins @ 18 fps, Silent with separate sound on CD, Color, Super 8mm

FEAR IN THE CITY (1181 DAYS LATER OR SMELL OF RATS) (PAURA IN CITTA (1181 DNI POZNEJE ALI VONJ PO PODGANAH))Davorin Marc, Yugoslavia, 1984, 21 mins, Color, Super 8mm transferred to 35mm

25 SECONDS PER FRAME (PIKNIK)Davorin Marc, Yugoslavia, 2013/14, 10:50 mins, Silent, Color, Super 8mm transferred to Digital video

Total running time: 83 mins. All films preserved or restored by the Slovenian Cinematheque, Ljubljana, and selected by Jurij Meden.