Ana Čigon

Films & video art

Rebellious Essence

2D digital cut-out animation, 5'
Format: DCP, HD; Stereo
2017

Rebellious Essence PressKIT

Scriptwriter, director, art director, animation and voices: Ana Čigon
Music and sound design: Vasja Progar
Production: Ana Čigon and City Gallery Ljubljana (Sarival Sosič)
Original language: Slovenian, English.
Translations: English, Italian (Ana Čigon), French (Dare Pejić), German, Spanish.

A cat walks into the Office of the Ministry for Cat Affairs and requests for a passport. All goes pretty well until the female and male cat clerks demand to know the cat's sex.

Festival screenings:

  • 3 Nov 2024, programme The Team Has Spoken, Animateka International Animated Film Festival, Kinodvor, Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • 25 Apr 2024, goEast, Symposium Precarious Joy, 24th Festival of Central and Eastern European Film, Murnau Filmtheater, Wiesbaden, Germany
  • 7 Apr 2022, The Future is Cat programme, 34th Filmfest Dresden - International Short Film Festival, Thalia Cinema, Dresden-Neustadt, Germany
  • 18 Jan 2022, XPOSED: Eastern European & Russian Queer Cinema, Kino Krokodil, Berlin, Germany
  • 1 Sep 2021, Lesben- und. Schwulenverband Experimental and Animation Shorts, outdor screening, Bürgerplatz -Eisenacher Str. / Fuggerstraße, Schöneberg, Berlin, Germany
  • 'Official Selection': from 13 Nov 2019 to 15 Nov 2019, FanCineGay, the International LGBT Film Festival of Extremadura, programme Selección Oficial 22FCG II, Residencia Universitaria Hernán Cortés, Badajoz & Biblioteca Pública del Estado, Cáceres, Spain; and programme Circuito Joven 22FCG y Sala Joven: Espacio de la Creación Joven: Miajadas, Herrera del Duque, Jerez de los Caballeros, Villanueva de la Serena, Zafra, Arroyo de la Luz, Moraleja, Navalmoral de la Mata, Villafranca de los Barros, Alburquerque, Almendralejo, Castuera, Fregenal de la Sierra, Hervás, Llerena, Olivenza, Spain & Factoría Joven: Plasencia, Badajoz, Mérida, Spain
  • Selection 'Winner 2019': Short Film Factory – December 2019, Romania
  • 'BEST ANIMATION SHORT FILM': 14 Nov 2019, 19' Nahia film fest, Internationa Short Film Festival About Sex, Gender, Diversity and Eroticism, Sala "El Apeadero", Granada, Spain
  • 12 Nov 2019, Pink Screens, Cinema Nova, Bruxelles, Belgium
  • 'AUDIENCE AWARD': 14 Jul 2019, Night of the Living Audience, Tabor Film Festival 17 - International Short Film Festival, Veliki Tabor Castle, Desinić, Croatia
  • 'Official Selection': 1 Jun 2019, TranScreen Amsterdam Transgender Film Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • 22 Mar 2019, 3rd Human Vision Festival, Dornbirn, Austria
  • 'Official Selection': 17 Mar 2019, competition Short 13 14th Athens ANIMFEST, Athens, Greece
  • 'BEST ANIMATION' Award: 16 Feb 2019, Malmo International LGBTQ+ Short Film Festival, Malmö, Sweden
  • 4 Dec 2018: Tricky Women Shorts, 11th edition of the International Human Rights Film Festival, This Human World, Festival Centre in Schikaneder, Vienna, Austria
  • 29 Nov 2018: Klappe auf! - 16 Days against Violence against Women and Girls, Brunnengasse, Vienna, Austria
  • 'Official Selection': 24 nov 2018: Trans Film Fest Stockholm, Midsommargården, Stockholm, Sweden
  • 11 & 21 Nov 2018: Tricky Women's spetial selection for Austrian Ombud for Equal Treatment, Leokino, Innsbruck; DAS KINO, Salzburg and Metro Kino, Bregenz, Austria
  • Finnish Premiere: Vinokino 2018, World Shorts Programme, 10 Nov 2018, Kino Andorra, Helsinki and 1 Dec 2018, Elokuvateatteri Studio, Oulu, Finland
  • 9 Nov 2018: 9. Queer Film Festival Oldenburg, Cine k, Oldenburg, Germany
  • 8 and 12 nov 2018: Feminist Short Film Programme, BIMOVIE, Neuen Maxim Kino, Muenchen, Germany
  • 'Official Selection': 9 and 10 Nov 2018, Competition programme International 3, International Animated Short Film Festival AJAYU, Gran Teatro Municipal and Cineplanet, Puno, Peru
  • 'Official Selection': 13 Oct 2018: Trans-tastic! Shorts, Reel Q: Pittsburgh LGBTQ+ Film Festival, Harris Theater, Pittsburgh, USA
  • 'Official Selection': 12 Oct 2018: TWIST, Seattle Queer Film Festival, Northwest Film Forum, Seattle, WA, USA
  • 9 Oct 2018: Short film opening night, 25. Queerfilm Festival Bremen, Germany
  • Portuguese premiere: 28 Sep 2018, BEAST International Film Festival, Porto, Portugal
  • 15 & 16 Sep 2018: Tricky Women - Secret Desire: Issues of Gender & Sexuality programme at IndieAnifest, Cinema 3 & ART 1, Seoul Animation Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea
  • 13 Sep 2018: GRRL HAUS CINEMA - Boston 2018 Edition, Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, MA, USA
  • 'Official Selection': 4 Sep 2018, GRRL HAUS CINEMA - Death, Birth, Identity and Sexuality, IL KINO Berlin, Germany
  • 'Official Selection': 14 Aug 2018: International Women Filmmakers Festival - FINCAR, São Luiz cinema, Recife, Brasil
  • Indian Premiere, 'Official Selection': 28 Jul 2018, Reel Desires: Chennai International Queer Film Festival, Goethe-Institut, Max Mueller Bhavan, Chennai, India
  • 'Official Selection': 20 Jul 2018, Korea Queer Film Festival (KQFF), Daehan Cinema, Theatre 1, Seoul, Republic of Korea
  • 12 Jul 2018: Cat Video Festival: Animated Cats, dotdotdot Open Air Kurzfilmfestival, Laudongasse 15-19, Vienna, Austria
  • 6 Jul 2018: Bixa Travesty & Xposed Kurzfilm programme, Queere Filmnacht, Atelier Automatique, Bochum, Germany
  • Albanian Premiere, 5 Jul 2018,'Shorts, Animation in Competition', Balkan Film Food Festival, Pogradec, Albania
  • 22 Jun 2018: qFEST – Festivala drugogi drugačijeg / qFEST – Festival of the Others and Different, Beton kino, Dom mladih, Split, Croatia
  • German Premiere, 'Official Invitation': 26 May 2018, competition programme Xposed Shorts 4: First Times and Third Options, The 13th Xposed International Queer Film Festival Berlin, , Movimento Theatre, Berlin, Germany
  • Asian Premiere, 'Short nomination': 14 May 2018, Europe 1 programme, The Seoul Guro International Kids Film Festival, Guro Meeting Hall, Seoul, Republic of Korea
  • North American (USA) Premiere, 'Official Selection': 11 May 2018, 2018 Translations Film Festival, Erickson Theatre, Seattle, USA
  • Sweedish Premiere: 15 Apr 2018: Breaking Boundaries programme, 12th IFEMA International Female Film Festival, Malmö, Sweden
  • 13 Apr 2018, Krazykom programme, Bilbao International Animation Community Festival - Animakom Fest, Dock – Edificio BBF, Bilbao, Spain
  • 'AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD', 24 Mar 2018, Leeds Queer Film Festiva, Live Art Bistro, Leeds, UK
  • Austrian Premiere: 10 and 11 Mar 2018, Body Awareness programme, Tricky Women 2018, Metro Kinokulturhaus, Vienna, Austria
  • Spanish Premiere, 'Official Competition Selection': 17 Feb 2018, MiCe 2018, 6th International Educational Film estival, Valencia, Spain
  • Greek Premiere: 6 Feb 2018, Artfools 10th International Film Festival of Larissa, Public Central Library Larissa, Greece
  • Serbian Premiere: 'Official Selection': 10 Dec 2017, 9th International queer film festival Merlinka, Dom omladine Belgrade, Serbia
  • 10 Dec 2017, 14th International animated film festival Animateka, Slovenian Cinematheque, Ljubljana
  • 'Official Selection': 25 Nov 2017, Animae Caribe Festival 2017, UTT Animation Cinema, venue Academy for the Performing Arts, Keate Street, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
  • 'Official Selection': 27 and 30 Nov 2017, 33rd LGBT Film Festival, Slovenian Cinematheque, Ljubljana
  • UK Premiere 'Official Selection': 18 Nov 2017, Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest, Hackney Showroom, Amhurst Terrace, London, UK
  • South America Premiere, 'Official Selection': 31 Oct 2017 and 1 Nov 2017, Colors: Cinema + Diversity, Curitiba, Paraná, Brasil
  • Croatia Premiere 'Official Selection': 29 Oct 2017, Vox Feminae Film Festival, Centar za Kulturu, Zagreb, Croatia
  • Premiere: 15 Sep 2017, 20th Slovene Film Festival, Main hall, Avditorij Portorož

Exhibitions:

  • 14 Jan - 17 Apr 2021, Based on True Stories. Račka Festival 2022: Spaces and Articulations of Sexuality, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Celje
  • Pantalla Rota / Broken Screen exhibitions: 3 Dec 2020, The Treachery of Images, El Patio de las Artes IOPPS, San Juan; 19 Dec 2020, Technocratic Apocalypse (Ecological Transition and Conviviality), EL BLANCO Centro de Experimentaciones Artísticas, Buenos Aires city; 26 Feb 2021, This don't match the curtains, Casa Belgrado, Buenos Aires city, Argentina
  • 20 Sep 2019 - 20 Oct 2019: group exhibition Politics of Resistance – The Duckling Festival 2019. Performances and exhibition, Račka Gallery, Celje
  • 27 Sep 2018 - 18 Nov 2018: group exhibition SPECTRUM: Exploring Gender Identification, MCLA Gallery 51, North Adams, MA, USA
  • 'Official Selection': 5 Jul 2018, Videopride (LGTB and feminist Festival), Museo La Neomudejar, Madrid, Spain
  • 14 Apr 2018, 2nd Screening of Slovene animation films, selection period 2006-2017, City cinema Metropol, Celje
  • Pre-premiere (work in progress copy): 23 Feb 2017, group exhibition Corporeality, City Gallery Ljubljana

VOD:

  • June 2020 to January 2021, Cinesquare, on the teritories of 13 countries from South East Europe Region (Ex-Yugoslavia, Albania, Greece, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Turkey, Romania)
  • From November 2020 on, Purplay, on the teritory of Republic of Korea

Other screenings:

  • 12 Oct 2022, Autumn Film School 2022 and City Women Festival: Oppositional (In)sights, Slovenian Short Film Programme, Slovenian Cinematheque, Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • 18 Jun 2022, Rainbow June in Maribor 2022. LGBTQIA+ film evening, Intimate Cinema, GT22, Maribor
  • 4 Aug 2021, Letnem kinu Minoriti, Avditorij Lutkovnega gledališča Maribor
  • 4 jul 2020, Mavrični junij v Mariboru, outdoors film evening, Pekarna, Maribor
  • from 1 to 30 Apr 2020,Online festivall SEE ONLINE FILM FESTIVAL: Cinesquare, Cutaway production
  • 6 and 13 Nov 2019, TrickyWomen Kurzfilmprogramm: 40 Jahre Gleichbehandlungsgesetz /40 years equal treatment law, Moviemento & City Kino, Linz and Schubertkino-Cafe-Lounge, Graz, Austria
  • 1 Nov 2019, Queerograd 019 – queere Politiken, Kulturin Graz, Austria
  • 6 Jun 2019, Pride screening (Pride Family Fun), Seattle's Museum of History & Industry, Seattle, WA, USA
  • 27 May 2019, Slovene Shorts: 15 Edition, Kinodvor, Ljubljana

Full film

Stills from film (1 to 4), character Sketches (5 to 9), photos: LGBT Film Festival Ljubljana (10), Festival Animateka Ljubljana (11), TrickyWomen festival (12), Cheers to Women! screening in Slovenian Cinematheque, City of Women Festival (13 to 14), film poster (15).