Stoptrik International Film Festival

Stoptrik International Film Festival was launched in 2011 by Pekarna Magdalena Network. It is the only European film festival dedicated solely to stop motion animation, featuring both screenings of recent productions as well as selected retrospectives. Via workshops and panel discussions, it is also presenting and developing the various approaches to the stop motion animation technique. In short, it is "an annual celebration of all things photographed one painstaking frame at a time".

International not only programme-wise, Stoptrik has an international presence also as an event, and is taking place more or less simultaneously in Maribor, Slovenia, and in two additional Polish cities. This cross-sectoral collaboration enables effective festival organization and also opens up a very diverse stream of initiatives and programming ideas.

Background

In 2011, two Polish film-studies graduates were staying in as volunteers for Pekarna Magdalena Network and out of their stay there, the Stoptrik International Film Festival was born. The second editions of the festival was already extended to the city of Niepołomice in Poland, and later the fourth one to yet another Polish city, Bielsko-Biała.

While the first edition of the festival was still more of a guerilla enterprise, the second one has benefited greatly from Maribor being the European Capital of Culture 2012 and has since than been growing in terms recognition, festival activities and programme scope. The main venues screenings, at least in Maribor that is, are Gustaf Hall, Pekarna, Kino Udarnik Maribor and Vetrinjski dvor.

Festival programme

The festival is focused on presenting the current stop motion productions, which is a technically very varied field of puppet film, 'claymation', object or photography manipulation, animation of loose materials such as salt or sand, pixilation, traditional cut-out and many other techniques such as animation of lights, fire, yarns, threads, etc. The screened films are chosen from all over the world, and some of the up until now highlights include the films The Chronicle of Oldřich (Rudolf Šmíd, CZ), Sleight of Hand (Michael Cusak, AUS), Boles (Špela Čadež, SLO), Recycled (Lei Lei & Thomas Sauvin, CHN) and Papa (Girlin-Bassovskaja, ES).

All of the above films have gotten an or another award in the different categories, be it the audience award for the best animation film, or The Borderland Award, which is given to films that transgress the stop motion techniques by combining them with other animation techniques, or maybe the Best Slavic Stop Motion or some other Festival Committee special mentions. At each location of the festival, the audience awards are awarded.

Each year, there are also screenings of archive materials, as for example a selection of Ukrainian clay animations, a review of Slovene classics filmed between 1952 and 1962 by Triglav film and a retrospective of the Polish stop motion pioneer Ladislas Starevich.

Workshops and other activities

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International presence

As mentioned, Stoptrik is regularely taking place gostovanja na tujih festivalih

External links

Stoptrik International Film Festival

Contents

Background

Festival programme

Workshops and other activities

International presence

See also

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