Special screenings

THE LOST THING

The Lost Thing is animated short film based on the highly acclaimed picture book by multi award winning author and illustrator, Shaun Tan. A modern fable with a unique aesthetic, the story is at once idiosyncratic and universal in its appeal to all ages. The film marks the directorial debut of both Andrew Ruhemann and Shaun Tan. Production: Passion Pictures Australia, 2010.

The Lost Thing is the winner of Annecy Crystal in 2010 and the Academy Award for The best short animated film in 2011.

The story: A boy discoveres a bizzare looking creature while out collecting bottle tops at the beach. Realising it is lost, he tries to find out who owns it or where it belongs, but is met with indifference from everyone else, who barely notice its presence, each unwilling to entertain this uninvited interruption to their day to day lives. For reasons he does not explain, the boy empathises with the creature, and sets out to find a ‘place’ for it.

STRIPBURGER IN MOTION

In the year 1992 the first issue of Stripburger, now legendary underground comic magazine, was published. What compelled the forefathers of Stripburger to start a magazine was the lack of a comic magazine in Slovenia. Because of the small local production, explorative tendencies of the editors and the inescapable bind between local production and global trends, the magazine was publishing comics by foreign as much as local artists - mélange of styles and narratives that remains one of the most appealing features of Stripburger. The editorial visited numerous festivals, book fares and galleries and succeeded in erousing the attention of the international public. In January 2001 the magazine won an award at the International Festival of Comic Art in Angouleme in the category for the best fanzine. Big attention was also given to special editions of the magazine, namely Stripburek, Comics from the Other Europe, anthology of Eastern European comics and the newest book to come out of the Stripburger kitchen - Honey Talks - comics inspired by painted beehive panels.

The film Stripburger in Motion is based on eight comics published in Stripburger comics magazine: Love Train (Sascha Hommer, Germany), Messiah (Vladan Nikolić, Serbia), Judas the Catholic Squirrel (Alberto Vazquez, Spain), Fog (Damijan Sovec, Slovenia), 8th Deadly Sin (Kaja Avberšek, Slovenia), Religions (Matej De Cecco, Slovenia), Summer Breeze (Dunja Janković, Croatia), (Malin Biller, Sweden). Boris Dolenc is the director charged with taking eight of the stories from the pages of Stripburger and compiling them into this thirty minute animated short. The perfect occasion to put the comics in motion is right now, as Stripburger celebrates its coming of age - the 18th anniversary of its existence.

Stripburger in Motion / Stripburger v gibanju
Boris Dolenc (Forum Ljubljana), Slovenia, 2010, 31'