Ana Čigon

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Work in progress. Deceptive working time

20 Dec 2024 at 7 pm
Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana Slovenia

Work in Progress is a multi-year artistic-curational research and fluid process that explores our relationship to work, community, and the experiences and practices of others. By cooperating, we highlight the precarious position of modern workers. The special feature of the process is the use of different media, group work and learning. We include colleagues from various fields who co-shape the project with their considerations, and we explore ways of sharing knowledge and involving female participants and visitors.

Deceptive Working Wime thus originates from several years of research and also flows back into it. At the reading group*, we talked about the book Bulshit Jobs by David Graeber and thought about how the views on the value and evaluation of work in the book resonate with our lives. In addition to Graeber, we also read the books Restavracija kapitalizma: repatriarhalizacija družbe (Restoration of Capitalism: Repatriarchalization of Society) by Lilijana Burcar and the book Degrowth: A vocabulary for a new era, authors: Giacomo D'Alisa, Federico Demaria, Giorgos Kallis and others. In doing so, we were interested in what solutions socialism offered for the organization of work and the relief of women's reproductive work, and how degrowth deals with the issue of working hours.

At the event, we will present a video in which mag. Ajda Pistotnik from the Policy Lab organization presented the views on organizing work and society proposed by the degrowth movement. Dr. Lilijana Burcar will address the historical differences in working conditions for women in socialism and capitalism and will present the importance of the systemic emancipation of women.

More about the event: https://www.galerijaskuc.si/si/event/delo-v-nastajanju-varljivi-delovni-cas/

Video evening with DIVA Station: Ana Čigon

18 Dec 2024 at 7 pm
Photon Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia

At Video Evenings with Station DIVA Photon Gallery host artists who are part of the Station DIVA archive to talk about their work and the background of their video projects. At the Video Evening, video artist, director and performer Ana Čigon will present her feminist artistic practice of the last ten years. She will show selected excerpts from video documentation of her performances. She has thematised several artworks by different female artists, individual female artists and some essential female figures from the past. She will present a selection of audiovisual works, reflecting on the transitions between the different genres in which she works, such as video art, documentary and experimental film, and animation. She will conclude by presenting the practice of long-term research and collective reflection on selected topics through video talks and artistic collaborations.

More about the event: https://photon.si/video-evening-with-diva-station-ana-cigon/?lang=en

Animateka, programmes: The Team Has Spoken and Kinotrip’s Best of the World

3 Dec 2024 at 11 pm - Rebellious Essence
6 Dec 2024 at 5 pm - Catlands
Kinodvor, Ljubljana, Slovenia

At the beginning of December, two of my films will be shown at the Animateka International Animated Film Festival. On Tuesday at 11:00 p.m., the first Slovenian animation with LGBTIQ+ content, Rebellious Essence, will be shown as part of the programme The Team Has Spoken. On Friday at 5:00 p.m., as part of Kinotrip's Best of the World programme, my newest satirical animation criticizing the inhumane European refugee policy, Catlands, will be shown. Both screenings will be in Kinodvor cinema.

More about the programme The Team Has Spoken: https://www.animateka.si/2024/en/the-team-has-spoken/
More about the programme Kinotrip’s Best of the World: https://www.animateka.si/2024/en/kinotrips-best-of-the-world/

Format Court interview with Ana Čigon

48th International Animated Film Festival - Cinanima 24

13 Nov 2024 at 3.30 pm
Espinho, Portugal

Catlands continues its Portugese tour at the 48th International Animated Film Festival - Cinanima 24 in Espinho. The film will be shown in the programme Grand Panorama Short Film 2.

More about the festival: https://cinanima.pt/en/international-grand-panorama/

International Day of Animated Film and DSAF Ceremony 2024

8 Nov 2024 at 8 pm
Slovenian Cinematheque, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Catlands will be shown as one of the nominated films at the Awarding ceremony for the best Slovenian short animated films created in the last two years chosen by* Slovene Animated Film Association - DSAF*. The event is part of the celebration of the International Day of Animated Film.

More about the event: https://dsaf.si/asset/yLJ5e6iFjBpfR8Azk

Olhares do Mediterrâneo - Women's Film Festival, competition program Travessias / Special Section

3 Nov 2024 at 2.15 pm
Cinema São Jorge, Sala 3, Lisbon, Portugal

Catlands will have its premiere Portuguese screening in Lisbon, at a powerful socially charged competition programme Travessias / Special Section of the wonderful Olhares do Mediterrâneo - Women's Film Festival.

More about the festival: https://www.olharesdomediterraneo.org/travessias-special-section_om2024/

Format Court article about Catlands at Cinemed

Rast magazine, interview with Ana Čigon and Vesna Bukovec

Oct 2024
Goga Literary agency, Novo mesto, Slovenia

Andreja Kopač prepared a multi-page interview for the October issue of the Sleovenian magazine Rast from the Novo mesto publishing house Goga on the subject of work, capital and trade unions, in which Vesna Bukovec and Ana Čigon talk about the project Work in Progress (authors Ana Čigon, Vesna Bukovec, Tia Čiček) and reflect on the role of work in our life.

More about the magazine: https://www.erast.si/2024/11/prepletenost-in-soodvisnost-dela-kapitala-in-sindikatov/

ASIFA & International Day of Animation, competition programme

24 Oct 2024 at 6 pm
Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia

On 24 October we will be back to our co-production country Croatia. Catlands will be shown in the Competition Programme l at the Museum of Contemporary art Zagreb, for the occasion of the International Day of Animation organised by ASIFA Croatia.

More about the event: http://www.asifa.hr/p/medunarodni-dan-animacije.html

Festival of Slovenian Film, Competition programme - SPECIAL MENTION

23 Oct 2024 at 2 pm, premiere Slovenian screening
24 Oct 2024 at 10.35 am, meet the authors
Avditorij Portorož, Slovenia

The premiere Slovenian screening of the film Catlands was at the Festival of Slovenian Film in Portorož. The film was shown as part of the official Competition programme I

Catlands received a SPECIAL MENTION with the following jury statement:
Special mention goes to the animated film Catlands by Ana Čigon for its humorous take on the proverbial Slovenian attitude to borders and fences.

Article about the film at the festival: Primorske novice, Maja Pertič Gombač, Festival slovenskega filma: Vsaj nekje smo lahko optimistični, 24/10/2024 (SLO)

More about the event: About the festival awards
Meet the authors, video 50'45- 66'45'' (SLO)

List of films in the Competition programme I

CINEMED - Festival Cinéma Méditerranéen Montpellier

19 & 22 Oct 2024 at 8 pm
Corum - Salle Einstein, Montpellier, France

Catlands was officially selected for Short Film Panorama programme of the established festival of Mediterranian films, CINEMED - Festival Cinéma Méditerranéen Montpellier. This will be a French premiere screening of the film.

Making of Catlands:

Presentation of new issues of ČKZ journal: Feminism, Art, Literature and the Kurdish Women's Movement

9 Oct 2024 at 5 pm
Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana

Article: Feminist Sharpening of the Gaze in the Contemporary Visual Art Authors of the presented article: Ana Čigon, Ana Grobler and Eva Jus

The introduction of the two new publications of the ČKZ journal is centred around the thematic issue of the ČKZ Feminism, Art, Literature as well as the monograph The Kurdish Women's Movement by Dilar Dirik. Drawing from the post-Yugoslav space, Feminism, Art, Literature places the artistic, literary and, on a wider scale, intellectual work in the context of the material and the social, revealing the ways in which they are and have been constituted as spaces where feminism is established as an ideological, methodological, affective and political intervention.

In our article we write about feminist art in Slovenia and broader and feminist festivals, especially we focus on the importance of the International Feminist and Queer Festival Red Dawns.

More about the event: https://mestozensk.org/en/festival/2024/dogodek/119498 (SLO)

Corto e Fieno - Rural Film Festival, Competition programme Germogli

5 Oct 2024 at 2 pm
Cinema Nuovo, Borgomanero, Italy

My new animation Catlands is continuing its festival journey through Italy. The film will be part of the official selection of the competitive programme Germogli at the Corto e Fieno - Rural Film Festival in Borgomanero.

More about the event: https://cortoefieno.it/

TIFF - Tirana International Film Festivala, BALKAN Shorts competition programme