Sharpening the Gaze on StopTrik

Contact with film helps create aesthetic sensitivity and strengthens youth media literacy. The film allows young people to identify with a variety of experiences and familiarize with different views of the world. But first and foremost, film stimulates the imagination, emotions, artistic and scientific creativity and encourages critical thinking and evaluation.

This year, world-class stop-motion animation will be celebrated at the festival venues as part of the Sharpening the Gaze workshop.

With selected film sets in a relaxed festival atmosphere, participants will discuss what they have seen, contemplate the idea of animation as a weapon and try to round their thoughts into texts with the help of mentors. The texts will be published on the festival website and on www.e-kino.si.

Sharpening the Gaze is a film education and creativity programme for youth, organized by KINO! Society for Expanding Film Culture led by Maja Krajnc, PhD, editor-in-chief of KINO! Magazine and Kristian Božak Kavčič.

Maja Krajnc (born in 1982) holds a PhD in Media Studies from ISH. Since 2007, she has been a (founding) member of the editorial board of the magazine KINO! and since 2011, she has been the editor-in-chief of the magazine for film KINO! as well as the president of KINO! Society for Expanding Film Culture. In the field of audiovisual art, she works as an author and editor of publications (Slovenian editions of Disintegration in Frames by Pavel Levi, Cinema against Spectacle by Jean-Louis Comolli, Alain Bergala's The Cinema Hypothesis. Teaching Cinema in the Classroom and Beyond, Emmanuel Barot's Camera politica, Autumn Film School 2016: Aspects of Post-Yugoslav Film). As a regular external collaborator of the Slovenian Cinematheque, she coordinates, prepares and implements the pedagogical programme “Kino-katedra” for primary and secondary school students; and is the author of an educational handbook for teachers Basics of Film Creativity. She coordinates and executes the project Understanding Film. Under the auspices of the KINO! Society, she implements an educational programme for youth Sharpening the Gaze and collaborates with many film institutions and festivals.

Kristian Božak Kavčič (born in 1997) graduated in Film and Television editing, and is currently pursuing his master's degree in Film and Television Studies at the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television. In 2016, he started participating in Sharpening the Gaze film criticism workshops and has written many film-related texts under the mentorship of dr. Maja Krajnc. In the last year, he has been working as an assistant at film criticism workshops and writing for film publications Kino! and Ekran.

Apply to ostrenje.pogleda@e-kino.si till 22. 9. 2021.

Participation fee: 15 EUR.

Programm will be held in accordance with the National health institution guidelines and in accordance with provisions of the Government of the RS. For participation peerson need to meet the recovered-vaccinated-tested requirements. Face masks are required upon entering. In the case of stringent Covid-19 measures there can be some changes or cancelation.