23.LFF
Opatija
26.-30.08.2025.

Film

Proposals and experiments

(Festival premiere)
LFF20, Out of competition, Restart films

ABOUT THE MOVIE

What does it mean to learn, to cope with the new, the strange, to listen and articulate? What does amateur performance tell us, and how does it shape expressions that disappear with professionalization?
The film examines the boundaries between documentary, feature and experimental elements that are intertwined both with each other, and in the relationship in front of and behind the camera - the relationship between the cameraman and the camera, the relationship between the cameraman and the filmed, the filmed and the cameraman.
Before the filming, I had intense conversations about the future with children (6-10 years old). The workshops raise serious questions about our reality, the present, and the functioning of contemporary society. Children’s imagination opens a view of the reality in which we live from another angle. But every gesture depicts the world, and although naive at first glance, it can hide many questions about contemporary issues of society.

Neža Knez

In 2014, she graduated in Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, where she continue the master’s program till 2017. She participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Slovenia and abroad and had received several awards, including the Award of Ministry of Culture, European Mobile Award (I-Portunus - Goethe Institute), UL ALUO Recognition, and UL ALUO Award for exceptional student achievements, the award for an innovative approach to graphic arts, the Prešeren Student Award of the University of Ljubljana and the OHO Group Award. She was the recipient of a two-year residency for young artists at the Švicarija Creative Centre and in 2019/20 she was a participant of WHW Academy in Zagreb, She lives and works between Ljubljana and Zagreb.

Title: Proposals and experiments
Year of production: 2022
Duration: 14
Director: Neža Knez
Screenplay: Neža Knez
Photography: Neža Knez, Pavel Penev
Editing: Neža Knez
Sound design: Borna Buljević
Production: Anita Bastašić
Production company: Restartova Škola za dokumentarni film