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Rebellious Essence / Uporni duh

Animation, 5', 2017
Idea, drawings, 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.

Press Kit pdf

AUDIENCE CHOICE MALMO Nahia Award TABOR SEE Factory

Festival screenings:
• 7/4/2022: 34 Filmfest Dresden - International Short Film Festival, Thalia Cinema, Dresden-Neustadt, Germany
• 18/1/2022: XPOSED: Eastern European & Russian Queer Cinema, Kino Krokodil, Berlin, Germany
• 1/9/2021: Lesben- und Schwulenverband Experimental and Animation Shorts, projekcija na prostem: outdor screening: Bürgerplatz -Eisenacher Str. / Fuggerstraße, Schöneberg, Berlin, Germany
• 'Official Selection': FanCineGay, the International LGBT Film Festival of Extremadura, programme Selección Oficial 22 FCG II, from 13/11/2019 to 15/11/2019: 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': 14/11/2019, 19' Nahia film fest, Internationa Short Film Festival About Sex, Gender, Diversity and Eroticism, Sala "El Apeadero", Granada, Spain
• 12/11/2019: Pink Screen, Cinema Nova, Bruxelles, Belgium
'AUDIENCE AWARD': 14/7/2019, Tabor Film Festival 17 - International Short Film Festival, Night of the Living Audience, Veliki Tabor Castle, Desinić, Croatia
• 'Official Selection': 1/6/2019, TranScreen Amsterdam Transgender Film Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• 22/3/2019, 3rd Human Vision Festival, Dornbirn, Austria
• 'Official Selection' competition: 17/3/2019, 14th Athens ANIMFEST, Athens, Greece
'BEST ANIMATION' Award: 16/2/2019, Malmo International LGBTQ+ Short Film Festival, Malmö, Sweden
• 4/12/2018: 11th edition of the International Human Rights Film Festival, This Human World, Festival Centre in Schikaneder, Vienna, Austria
• 29/11/2018: Klappe auf! - 16 Days against Violence against Women and Girls, Brunnengasse, Vienna, Austria
• 'Official Selection': 24/11/2018: Trans Film Fest Stockholm, Midsommargården, Stockholm, Sweden
• 11 & 21/11/2018: 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: 10/11/2018, Kino Andorra, Helsinki and 1/12/2018, Elokuvateatteri Studio, Oulu, Finland
• 9/11/2018: 9. Queer Film Festival Oldenburg, Cine k, Oldenburg, Germany
• 8 and 12/11/2018: Feminist Short Film Programme, BIMOVIE, Neuen Maxim Kino, Muenchen, Germany
• 'Official Selection' for Competition (International 3): International Animated Short Film Festival AJAYU, 9/11/2018 in Gran Teatro Municipal and 10/11/2018 in Cineplanet, Puno, Peru
• 'Official Selection': 13/10/2018: Trans-tastic! Shorts, Reel Q: Pittsburgh LGBTQ+ Film Festival, Harris Theater, Pittsburgh, USA
• 'Official Selection': 12/10/2018: TWIST, Seattle Queer Film Festival, Northwest Film Forum, Seattle, WA, USA
• 9/10/2018: Short film opening night, 25. Queerfilm Festival Bremen, Germany
• Portuguese premiere: 28/9/2018, BEAST International Film Festival, Porto, Portugal
• 15 & 16/9/2018: "Tricky Women - Secret Desire: Issues of Gender & Sexuality" programme at IndieAnifest, Cinema 3 & ART 1, Seoul Animation Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea
• 13/9/2018: GRRL HAUS CINEMA -Boston 2018 Edition, Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, MA, USA
• 'Official Selection': 4/9/2018, GRRL HAUS CINEMA - Death, Birth, Identity and Sexuality,IL KINO Berlin, Germany
• 'Official Selection': 14/8/2018: International Women Filmmakers Festival - FINCAR, São Luiz cinema, Recife, Brasil
•Indian Premiere, 'Official Selection': 28/7/2018:, Reel Desires: Chennai International Queer Film Festival, Goethe-Institut, Max Mueller Bhavan, Chennai, India
• 20/7/2018: 'Official Selection', Korea Queer Film Festival (KQFF), Daehan Cinema, Theatre 1, Seoul, Republic of Korea
• 12/7/2018: Cat Video Festival: Animated Cats, dotdotdot Open Air Kurzfilmfestival, Laudongasse 15-19, Vienna, Austria
• 6/7/2018: Queere Filmnacht: Bixa Travesty & Xposed Kurzfilmprogramm, Atelier Automatique, Bochum, Germany
• Albanian Premiere, 'Shorts, Animation in Competition', 5/7/2018: Balkan Film Food Festival, Pogradec, Albania
• 22/6/2018: qFEST – Festivala drugogi drugačijeg (qFEST – Festival of the Others and Different), Beton kino, Dom mladih, Split, Croatia
• German Premiere, 'Official Invitation, in competition0': 26/5/2018:, The 13th Xposed International Queer Film Festival Berlin, Xposed Shorts 4: First Times and Third Options programme, Movimento Theatre, Berlin, Germany
• Asian Premiere: 'Short nomination': 14/5/2018, The Seoul Guro International Kids Film Festival, Europe 1 programme, Guro Meeting Hall, Seoul, Republic of Korea
• North American (USA) Premiere, 'Official Selection': 11/5/2018, 2018 Translations Film Festival, Erickson Theatre, Seattle, USA
• Sweedish Premiere: 15/4/2018: 12th IFEMA International Female Film Festival, Breaking Boundaries programme, Malmö, Sweden
• 13/4/2018, Bilbao International Animation Community Festival - Animakom Fest, Krazykom programme, Dock – Edificio BBF, Bilbao, Spain
• 'AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD', 24/3/2018, Leeds Queer Film Festiva, Live Art Bistro, Leeds, UK
• Austrian Premiere: 10 and 11/3/2018, Tricky Women 2018, Body Awareness programme, Metro Kinokulturhaus, Vienna, Austria
• Spanish Premiere, 'Official Competition Selection': 17/2/2018, MiCe 2018, 6th International Educational Film estival, Valencia, Spain
• Greek Premiere: 6/2/2018, Artfools 10th International Film Festival of Larissa, Public Central Library Larissa, Greece
• Serbian Premiere: 'Official Selection': 10/12/2017, 9th International queer film festival Merlinka, Dom omladine Belgrade, Serbia
• 10/12/2017, 14th International animated film festival Animateka, Slovenian Cinematheque, Ljubljana
• 'Official Selection': 25/11/2017, Animae Caribe Festival 2017, UTT Animation Cinema, venue Academy for the Performing Arts, Keate Street, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
• 'Official Selection': 27/11/2017 and 30/11/2017, 33rd LGBT Film Festival, Slovenian Cinematheque, Ljubljana
• UK Premiere 'Official Selection': 18/11/2017, Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest, Hackney Showroom, Amhurst Terrace, London, UK
• South America Premiere, 'Official Selection': 31/10/2017 and 1/11/2017, Colors: Cinema + Diversity, Cinemateca, Curitiba, Paraná, Brasil
• Croatia Premiere 'Official Selection': 29/10/2017, Vox Feminae Film Festival, Centar za Kulturu, Zagreb, Croatia
• Premiere: 15/9/2017, 20th Slovene Film Festival, Main hall, Avditorij Portorož

Exhibitions:
14. 1. - 17. 4. 2021, Based on True Stories. Račka Festival 2022: Spaces and Articulations of Sexuality. Over Overview exhibition and Series of Performances, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Celje
Pantalla Rota / Broken Screen exhibitions: 3/12/2020, " The Treachery of Images", El Patio de las Artes IOPPS, San Juan; 19/12/2020, "Technocratic Apocalypse" (Ecological Transition and Conviviality), EL BLANCO Centro de Experimentaciones Artísticas, Buenos Aires city; 26/2/2021, "This don't match the curtains", Casa Belgrado, Buenos Aires city, Argentina
• 20/9/2019 - 20/10/2019: group exhibition Politics of Resistance – The Duckling Festival 2019. Performances and exhibition, Račka Gallery, Celje
• 27/9/2018 - 18/11/2018: group exhibition SPECTRUM: Exploring Gender Identification, MCLA Gallery 51, North Adams, MA, USA
• 'Official Selection': 5/7/2018, Videopride (LGTB and feminist Festival), Museo La Neomudejar, Madrid, Spain
• 2nd Screening of Slovene animation films, selection period 2006-2017: 14/4/2018, City cinema Metropol, Celje
• Pre-premiere (work in progress copy): 23/2/2017, 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:
• 12/10/2022, Autumn Film School 2022 and City Women Festival: Oppositional (In)sights: Slovenian Short Film Programme, Slovenian Cinematheque, Ljubljana, Slovenia
• 18/6/2022, Rainbow June in Maribor 2022. LGBTQIA+ film evening, Intimate Cinema, GT22, Maribor
• 4/8/2021: Letnem kinu Minoriti, Avditorij Lutkovnega gledališča Maribor
• 4/7/2020: Mavrični junij v Mariboru, outdoors film evening, Pekarna, Maribor
• Online festivall SEE ONLINE FILM FESTIVAL: 1- 30/4/2020, Cinesquare, Cutaway production
• TrickyWomen Kurzfilmprogramm: 40 Jahre Gleichbehandlungsgesetz /40 years equal treatment law, 6/11/2019: Moviemento & City Kino, Linz; & 13/11/2019: Schubertkino-Cafe-Lounge, Graz, Austria
• 1/11/2019: Queerograd 019 – queere Politiken, Kulturin Graz, Austria
• 6/6/2019: Pride screening (Pride Family Fun), Seattle's Museum of History & Industry, Seattle, WA, USA
• 27/5/2019: Slovene Shorts: 15 Edition, Kinodvor, Ljubljana

 
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Fringe! Vox Feminae Caribe
Mice translations GUKIFF
KQFF Desires VideoPride
GRRL TWIST ReelQ
AJAYU Stockholm Animfest
TranScreen Tabor FanCinGay
other festivals Pantalla Rota  

FILM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Jmgl4dafZA&list=PLKkbIne_q2geEPmLiMCOJcIQhoKZVZc52

Povezava na trailer na youtubu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9txBtKMYf0

 

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Photos: TrickyWomen festival, LGBT Film Festival Ljubljana, Festival Animateka Ljubljana, Cheers to Women! screening in Slovenian Cinematheque (City of Women).

Catalogs:
Balkan Film Food Festival, p. 65
Translations, p. 21
Leeds Queer Film Festival, p. 11
MiCe 2018, 6th International Educational Film estival, p. 48
9th International queer film festival Merlinka, p. 20
20th Slovene Film Festival, p. 134
Leeds Queer Film Festival, p. 11


Ana Čigon