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Presenter: Jasna Zmak, Pangolin, Croatia

Video selection for the festival:

Film The Market, Ana Husman, 10 min.

Market shoppers use all of their senses when trying to ascertain whether the groceries are local or imported. The privileging of local produce over imported goods is ever present regardless of whether or not the groceries actually are better, this follows to lines of argument - that by buying Croatian produce they are supporting Croatian agriculture and that domestic produce is familiar and tastier, although it is not the origin of the goods but the method of its production that counts. They rather chose to buy local goods simply because it is "our" , Croatian, local produce, and not some foreign, unfamiliar and alien foodstuff which is therefore deemed of lesser quality.

For the preserves traditionally prepared to last throughout the winter, only local produce is considered worthy, it has to be treated, and conserved, for it to be safe, and caught at its best moment of maturity. This process demands that all foreign bodies be destroyed, that only the best pieces are used, those without fault, all this need be cleansed for the preserved to be safe from all decay.

Film Merspajz, Ana Husman,10 min.

Video manual based on a cookbook written by Mira Vucetic. It is based on a four recipes and for each of them while I was cooking I made animation. Her cookbook is the one on which all-Croatian mothers and grannies based their kitchen. What is interesting is that there is no cooking or backing time written, and if you don’t have basic knowledge about cooking it won’t help.

Film Prigruf, Ana Husman, 5 min.

Ana Hušman, Croatia

www.anahusman.net
ana@mi2.hr
++ 385 91 248 76 26

Ana Husman, born in Zagreb in 1977. Studied multimedia and art education department graduating in 2002 from the Academy of Fine Arts Zagreb, Croatia. Attended number of Croatian and International festivals and shows. At the moment working on Academy of fine arts department of animated film and new media.

(Insert - retrospective exhibition of artists’ film and video from 1960 to the present Museum of Contemporary Art - Zagreb, XXII Biennal of Young Artists - Naples, International Biennial of young artists - Vršac, Share - Ljubljana, The Independents, g39 - Cardiff, Staying or leaving Art Pavillion - Zagreb / Kunsthaus, Graz, Instants Video, Marseille 2003).

For her last film she received several international awards.
Her last two videos are published under EGOBOO.bits label, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 licence.

For more see: www.anahusman.net

Jasna Zmak, Studio Pangolin, Croatia
Jasna Zmak is student of Marketing and Dramaturgy in Zagreb. Assistant of production in the studio Pangolin, Zagreb. Coordinator od the project Palunko and also coordinator of festival for audio and video media Visura Aperta o6. Participating in various international and national film/video workshops. Published and performed short stories.
Contact: divljas@yahoo.com
++385981725805

Studio Pangolin, Croatia
Studio Pangolin was established in Zagreb, Croatia in 2003, with the aim of producing contemporary art projects, organising events (workshops, exhibitions, conferences) for artists and researchers to meet and exchange ideas, providing platforms of dialogue across different media and geographic locations. Studio Pangolin acts as a producer, distributor and facilitator for fine art film projects, video art and installation projects by young, emerging and established artists. It is committed to educating and promoting contemporary art and research in the field of art, and thus organises and co organises numerous international events in collaboration with many partners and artists organisations. Studio Pangolin is committed to disseminating new and challenging approaches to theory and to the promotion of art practice as research. It operates on a decidedly international level as its founders believe that the dynamism created at the intersection of and interchange of different cultures is what provides the edge to art production and debate in the contemporary world.

See: www.pangolin.hr, pangolin@pangolin.hr

EGOBOO.bits

Its a free content publishing project by Multimedia Institute and a collective of more than 50 music, film and text creators from Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia (EgoProizvodjaci). Initiated in 2001 in order to promote copyleft and GNU GPL as a model larger cultural production and exchange, it saw an emerging generation of digital creators coming together and rising to recognition - from landing top hits on national charts to being featured in international festivals such as Ars Electronica or Transmediale. It also incubated the Croatian port of Creative Commons licenses. More than 100 hours of released music and video, licensed under CC BY-SA or GNU GPL, are available through EGOBOO.bits website, p2p networks or CDs/DVDs.
See: http://www.egoboobits.net/
Related links:
http://creativecommons.org/

PALUNKO- A place for film stories
We are inviting all screenwriters, all those who feel like screenwriters and all those who will become ones, to join Palunko - the initiative for promotion of the art of film storytelling.
‘Palunko’ is a long-term project with the goal of developing culture of film writing. The main purpose of this initiative is to familiarize the general public with the art of film story-telling, to discover potential screenwriting talents, continuously educate them and support, to encourage establishing and development of international contacts, provide information about possibilities of international cooperation, and finally to create a substantial database which will benefit to all people involved in film and television work.
‘Palunko’ will gradually develop into a combination of a workshop and an “info-punkt” with the focus on these activities:

See: http://www.filmski-programi.hr/palunko/page.php?id=1

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