Slovenian Film Retrospective: Colours of Memory; Kiss Me Gentle Rubber; Silent Sonata;

Colours of Memory (Barva spomina)

Jože Babič, Giorgio Sestan, Slovenia (Yugoslavia), 1967, DCP (shot on 35 mm), colour, 13', English subtitles

The paintings and prints by the Slovenian artist Lojze Spacal (1907–2000). An attempt to break into the humaneness, synthesis and rhythm of his work.

Kiss Me Gentle Rubber (Poljubi mehka me radirka)

Zvonko Čoh, Slovenia (Yugoslavia), 1984, DCP (shot on 35 mm), B&W, 6', no dialogue

A drawing in a classical artistic space is combined with surrealist content arising from metaphors and associations. Classical cartoon heroes are replaced by their animated movements and silhouettes.

Circus Fantasticus / Silent Sonata

Janez Burger, Slovenia/Finland/Ireland/Sweden, 2010, 35mm, 2.35, colour, 77', no dialogue

A man is left alone with his two children in a semi-destroyed house in the middle of an isolated field. His wife has just been killed by a grenade in a military conflict. A new attack is expected. But instead of it, the travelling caravan of Circus Fantasticus stops at the house. They have brought with them their dying circus director. Can something beautiful also happen in the landscape of war and death? Can life move on? Is the realisation that death does not exist possible? Burger’s third feature film talks about war through a magnificent intertwinement of images and sound and with no words at all.