Alpe-Adria Underground!
For decades, the rich experimental/Avant-Garde film heritage of the Socialist Republic of Slovenia has remained overlooked both at home and abroad. Finally visible today, these films prove that the metropoles of the West were not the only hubs of innovative cinema.
Matevž Jerman is a film director, film curator, and film critic, co-founder of the Kraken Association for the Promotion of Short Film, and Programme Director of FeKK – Ljubljana Short Film Festival. Since 2009, he has been working with the Slovenian Cinematheque’s programming department, where in recent years he has been curating short film programs and researching special Avant-Garde collections in the cinema archive.
Jurij Meden is a curator and head of film program at the Austrian Film Museum in Vienna. Previously, he worked as head of the program department at the Slovenian Cinematheque in Ljubljana and as curator of film exhibitions at the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York.