Alpe-Adria Underground!

Synopsis

Between 2013 and 2023, Slovenian Cinematheque preserved and digitized 179 short films created on a tiny stretch of land between the Alps and the Adriatic Sea in the period of socialism (1945-1991), but mostly outside the prevailing state production. Today, we belatedly recognize these films as experimental and as an important, innovative part of the Slovenian film heritage, visible again for the first time after decades. The production of Alpe-Adria Underground! has radically accelerated efforts to preserve, digitize and restore this segment of Slovenian cinema.

Director Biography

Matevž Jerman is a film director, film curator and film critic, as well as one of the co-founders of the Kraken Association for the Promotion of Short Film and the Programme Director of FeKK - Ljubljana Short Film Festival. As a selector of the short film section he collaborates with festivals Kino Otok - Isola Cinema and LIFFe.

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.