Pansini's Days 2025
Petra Belc, Sonja Leboš, Dina Pokrajac
Translation: Sonja Leboš
Concept and production: Association for Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Research (AIIR)
In collaboration with: Centre for Culture / Centar za kulturu Korčula, City Library „Ivan Vidali“, Subversive Film Festival
Visual identity and graphic design: Roko Jeričević
Support: Croatian Audiovisual Centre
Organizers thank to: Kinoklub Zagreb, Hrvatski filmski savez
The work of the Association for Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Research is institutionally supported by the City of Zagreb – Office for Culture and Civil Society and „Kultura nova“ Foundation.
Sponsorship:
Aminess Hotels
Program booklet with the curators' texts find here.
PROGRAM
Wednesday, October 1, 2025
Cinema Hall of the Centre for Culture Korčula
6-7.30 pm
Introduction: Dina Pokrajac
120 Gazes on Nuša (120 pogledov na Nušo, 1970), Nuša and Srečo Dragan, 2'35''
Fuses (1967), Carolee Schneemann, 29'
Take Off (1972), Gunvor Nelson, 10'
No No Nooky T.V. (1987), Barbara Hammer, 12'
The Play of Gaze (Nazarbazi, 2022), Maryam Tafakory, 19'
PetroPorn (2017), Isabel Torres / Ana Edwards / Lucía Egaña, 4'18''
Q&A with Dina Pokrajac
Moderator: Petra Belc
9-10.30 pm
Cinema Hall of the Centre for Culture Korčula
Introduction: Dina Pokrajac
Daisies (Sedmikrásky, 1966.), Věra Chytilová, 74'
Thursday, October 2, 2025
Multimedia Hall of the Centre for Culture Korčula
5-6.30 pm
„Universum Katalin Ladik“
Performative Lecture by Katalin Ladik with screening
Q&A with the Artist
Moderator: Sonja Leboš
FOTKA 3 Katalin Ladik: Shaman Poem, performance, GEFF 1970 © Courtesy of Katalin Ladik
8.30 - 11.30 pm
Cinema Hall of the Centre for Culture Korčula
Uvod: Petra Belc
Kings of the Road (Im Lauf der Zeit,1976), Wim Wenders, 175'
Friday, October 3, 2025
Cinema Hall of the Centre for Culture Korčula
5-6.30 pm
Introduction to films by Iva Gavrilović: Petra Belc
A room with a view or reflection in images (Soba s pogledom ili razmišljanje u slikama, 2021), 10'
Being an Island (Biti otok, 2021), 6’33
Sketch for the Embrace (Skica za zagrljaj, 2021), 11’20
Punctum (2022), 7’39
The Image (Slika, 2023), 5’40
The Sound of Loneliness (Zvuk samoće, 2022), 7’34
Q&A with the Artist
Moderator: Petra Belc
8.30 – 11 pm
Cinema Hall of the Centre for Culture Korčula
Introduction: Sonja Leboš
The Latrine (1963), Mihovil Pansini, 17’
Perfect Days (2023), Wim Wenders, 124’
About authors
Petra Belc Krnjaić holds a Ph.D. in Film Studies from the University of Zagreb; her thesis explored “The Poetics of Yugoslav Experimental Cinema from the 1960s and 1970s.” As an independent researcher, her focus is on the field of experimental cinema with a chosen interest in the archiving and preservation of small-gauge films, feminism, and visual art. For years she has been also working as a film editor and a producer of film and TV announcements and promotion of TV programs.
Sonja Leboš, Ph.D., defended her doctoral thesis under the title “City on Film, Film in the City: Zagreb 1941-1991, cultural-anthropological perspective” in November 2022. Cultural anthropologist, expert in cultural tourism, and art educator. She also studied set design and architecture in Prague and Zagreb. Her activities are in the domain of cultural and urban studies, education and production in culture and art, visual and urban anthropology, and discourse analysis, while her artistic, curatorial, and scientific work tends to merge the liminal fields of narrative urbanism and visual arts, design, theory and practice of performativity, film, and new media.
Dina Pokrajac is a film critic, curator and editor. She majored in Journalism and Political Science at the Faculty of Political Science and is a PhD candidate at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. Her PHD thesis deals with mnemonics of the image and archival footage as counter-memory. She works for Restart, an organization focused on production, education, distribution, and exhibition of documentary films and is the manager of Dokukino KIC - a unique cinema venue in the region, dedicated to non-fiction and hybrid cinema. She is the artistic director of Subversive Festival and has curated numerous interdisciplinary projects combining film and critical theory, including recent collaborations with the Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb and the curatorial collective BLOK. She is also a selector and discursive programme coordinator for ZagrebDox. She has edited over 20 books in the fields of political science, film theory and philosophy. She also works as a translator, having translated Lewis Mumford's Art and Technics and Laura Mulvey’s Afterimages among other works. Member of juries and selection committees at more than 20 international festivals, she also occasionally conducts film workshops and lectures on cinema. President of the Croatian Film Critics Society and chief editor of online publication Zona filma.
