After last year’s fiftieth anniversary of the Slovene Film Archives (SFA), the sixth edition of FeKK festival finds us in a state that offers fewer reasons for celebration. The programme is, therefore, the result of the currently darker everyday life. All the shorts of The Evolution of the Catastrophe are residents of the Slovene Film Archives catalogues, which means that they are going to be broadcast from various analogue media. The audience will thus have the opportunity to witness alongside the evolution of men also the evolution of film, which is faced with its catastrophe and questions of existence.


The selection gathered under the topic The Evolution of Catastrophe predicts the future and analyses the past, displays the factors that have brought the evolutionary course to the catastrophe, in which we are submerged today, and the ways to resurface. The programme focuses on the preservation of mankind by protecting it from all possible and unfathomable tragedies but also on dreams of a better future. What alternatives for surviving the end of the world did the ex-Yugoslavian artists come up with? How far ahead of them have we come and what might we still learn?


The programme starts with the extinction of the dinosaurs and ends with robots. What lies further ahead is still imperceptible, so we will have to slightly “evolutionize” to find alternatives. If we will continue with the same pace, there will be no time for evolution and we will likewise end in destruction. This notion holds true also for the film stocks from which the shorts are going to be screened if we run out of time to digitalise them.   

Regardless of all natural catastrophes, viruses, epidemics, rising unemployment rate, growing inequality, environmental pollution, depletion of limited natural sources, automation and domination of robots, the intelligent humankind has the quality to stomach any such difficult situation with lightness and humour.


Since Black Mirror is becoming quite actual and the dystopian portraits of the future are materialising in real life, the programme transfers us from the well-known anxious reality back to the sci-fi sphere, into the past and the retrofuturistic, fun visions of the future and solutions for the current problems to give us the much-needed relief and enjoyment.

Neža Kos, Jelena Radić

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