Festival Midnight Gatherings

MONDAY, 8.12.
22.30 Kinodvor (lobby)
Opening Party

The Embassy of Switzerland in Ljubljana, Kinodvor Cinema and Two Reels — Association for the Reanimation of Storytelling proudly invite you to the opening party of the fifth International Animation Film Festival Animateka.

TUESDAY, 9.12.
22.30 Kinodvor (lobby)
Perzepolis Party
& DJ Tito

Two Reels — Association for the Reanimation of Storytelling and Društvo za širjenje filmske kulture KINO! proudly present the second part of the Slovene translation of the worldwide comic hit Persepolis by France-based Iranian author Marjane Satrapi.

WEDNESDAY, 10.12.
00:01 Menza pri koritu, Metelkova mesto
Audio-visual concert
& DJ Brat and DJ Sestra (from 22.30)

Anti-Vatican Coalition Against The Hippies Resistance
Audio-Visual Performance

This is the work of the devil. The restless devil of creativity. The evil of humour and fantasy. A devil, disrespectful towards static norms and dogmas invented to confine life dynamics into a prison of "security" and other false values — masks of Control and Domination. Unpredictability and adventurous spirit of music improvisation is not only breaking the academic music postulates, but also attacking the core principles of a conservative, hyper-controlled and misled society. Childish playfulness and unlimited fantasy of image animation are endangering the same walls of the dogmatic monolith, as they open new, unoccupied worlds beyond control and repression. 17 musicians and 11 image animators are forming this fearless Audio/Visual Anti/Vatican Coalition which has been printed and released in DVD format in September 2008 by Improvvisatore Involontario — one of the most respected and active Italian collectives of musicians and visual artists. The Visual division is organized and conceptualized by video artist and painter Raffaella Piccolo, the Audio division is conducted by drummer and composer Francesco Cusa. The Visual division is leading musicians to a conducted-improvisational journey through the heretic areas of Idiolatry and Apostasy, scary rituals of Barbie Crucifixon, the humorous sides of sin and The Sinners, the alienation of the Old Generation and further on through another dozen of animated videos until The Boomerang Of Power finally brings us to The Death.

Performance at the Animateka Festival will be the first international presentation of the project and will feature the following musicians and artists:

Raffaella Piccolo (real-time computer animation)
Francesco Cusa (conduction, drums)
Federico Squassabia (keyboards)
Andrea Pennisi (objects, trumpet)
Sergio Montemagno (trumpet)
Marjan Stanič (drums)
Matjaž Manček (electric guitar, electronics)

Featured animations and video works by:
Raffaella Piccolo
Emiliano5rui
Elvira Gioviale
Vittorio Curatolo
Tino Indelicato
Danilo Lanza
Diana Merlino
Giovanni Tomaselli

www.core-design.it/antivatican
www.myspace.com/antivaticancoalitionagainst
www.improvvisatoreinvolontario.com
www.myspace.com/improvvisatoreinvolontario

THURSDAY, 11.12.
22.00 Menza pri koritu, Metelkova mesto

Concert GORIBOR (Serbia)

Goribor come from the Serbian city of Bor, known for the largest copper mines in the former Yugoslavia, from a city Dušan Makavejev presented in his film Man is Not a Bird (Čovek nije tica) in all its misery and splendour. All that remained after the transition was the misery and the disappointment of younger generations, reflected in the band's expressive lyrics. Texts are accompanied by powerful blues guitar riffs, ranging from rock to trip-hop.

FRIDAY, 12.12.
23.30 Kinodvor (lobby)

Fears Party

Demiurg Distribution, Kinodvor Cinema and Two Reels — Association for the Reanimation of Storytelling invite you to to a fierce party in honour of the cinematic distribution of the animation horror Fear(s) of the Dark.

SATURDAY, 13.12.
22.30 Kinodvor (lobby)
Closing Party

VJ/DJ Skasapiens