https://kinotuskanac.hr/en/cycle/kratki-utorak
https://kinotuskanac.hr/en/movie/epistolarno-pismo-jeanu-vigou
Short Tuesday
Program:
E•pis•to•lar•no: pismo Jeanu Vigou / E•pis•to•lar•y: letter to Jean Vigo (Lynne Sachs), 2021, 5′
Od Hetty za Nancy / From Hetty to Nancy (Deborah Stratman), 1997, 44′
Dear Aki (Nina Kurtela), 2021, 14’40”
A program of the Croatian Film Association that screens domestic and foreign short feature, documentary, experimental and animated films once a month. It was launched in 2006 under the name Experimental Tuesday, and since 2010 has been called Short Tuesday.
Freedom in a Letter | January 28, 2025 at 7:00 PM, Histrionski dom Cultural Center (Ilica 90)
This year’s first Short Tuesday addresses us in the form of a film letter to invite us to reflect on authority and rebellion, on history and landscape, travel and subjective perspective, on identity constructions and unexpected linguistic-spatial synchronicities.
A letter as a direct expression of connection and a kind of invitation to dialogue, is at the same time a reflection of the need for communication and closeness, as well as (physical) distance. In the case of the three authors – Lynne Sachs, Deborah Stratman and Nina Kurtela – the letter becomes an elastic cinematographic form for exploring intersubjectivity and mediation, but also film language: a form that expands the field of creative freedom. Combined with archival footage or documentary views of the landscape, the letters in these films skilfully bridge time and space, providing links between seemingly incompatible perspectives, events, thoughts.
Freedom in the letter, which paraphrases (more precisely, turns the negation into an affirmative) words that Ingeborg Bachmann addressed to Paul Celan in one of the many letters they exchanged, is one of the possible epistolary cinematographic exchanges between the one who writes, she who films and us who listen and watch – between “I” and “you”.
with love,
Short Tuesday