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TV Free Europe

TV Free Europe explores the possibilities of freedom (especially freedom of speech) and change, it aims to transgress social bubbles and connect voices, locations, times and stories, historical topics with today’s and tomorrow’s facts and fictions. The format of a television becomes a horizontal medium, which creates immediate platforms of exchange. The main motivation of the project is to imagine and create a different public sphere, where voices and opinions do not serve a consensus, where different contributions in different languages can come into dialogue, and where a mixture of play and seriousness can drive common actions. The leading organization of the project is Pneuma Szöv., a Budapest based artist collective, operating since 2008, building and working together with a heterogeneous network of collaborators from all layers of society, with the shared aim of creating unusual performative channels to reach their audiences through playful use of public sphere. The project group consists of the artistic director Sarah Günther (Pneuma Szöv., HU), the project coordinator Zsuzsa Berecz (Pneuma Szöv., HU), the lead contributor from University of Nova Gorica School of Arts Jasna Hribernik (SI), Andreas Liebmann (Tårnby Park Studio, DE), Alfred Masal (Studio Oberwart AU), Alexander Pehlemann (Studio Leipzig, GE), and Peter Purg (UNG School of Arts, SI).

FEAR FREE, an experimental TV-show from Studio Nova Gorica. The Fear Free TV-show is a final production of the international workshop of the project TV Free Europe, produced as a group work of participating students and mentors. As a starting point for thinking about fear and its many faces, which was also one of the important themes of the overall project, students conducted an interview with one of the members of the internationally known Slovenian band Laibach, Jani Novak. The students were exploring new formats and techniques, and simultaniously learning the basic principles of TV production, characteristic of the 21st Century. They were working with two mentors: Assoc. Prof. Jasna Hribernik from the School of Arts, University of Nova Gorica, and Sarah Günther from the artistic group Pneuma Szöv (Budapest). Students: Immanuel Hofman (GR), Ivana Kalc (HR), Vasily Kuzmich (UA), Luka Mavrič (SI), Nabil Nazeem (PS), Kristian Petrovčič (SI), Matej Rimaič (SI), Adriana Kostja Ronkali (SI), Una Savić (RS), Parisa Zaeri (IR), Staš Zupanc (SI).

TV FREE EUROPE, round table: Project representatives will discuss their experiences with the development of a new artistic TV network during lockdown and the Covid-19 pandemic, which affected the course of the project and led its development and implementation in a completely different way than planned. The round table discussion will be enriched with the screening of realized shows, documentary inserts, and other visual material from the project. Guests: Jasna Hribernik (SI) moderator, Zsuzsa Berecz (HU), ANDREAS LIEBMANN DENMARK (DE), ALFRED MASAL (AU), ALEXANDER PEHLEMANN (GE), Adriana Kostja Ronkali – BA student at UNG School of Arts (SI).

Fear Free, Jasna Hribernik (SI) Sarah de Günther (HU) Immanuel Hofman (GR), Ivana Kalc (HR), Vasily Kuzmich (UA), Luka Mavrič (SI), Nabil Nazeem (PS), Kristian Petrovčič (SI), Matej Rimaič (SI), Adriana Kostja Ronkali (SI), Una Savić (RS), Parisa Zaeri (IR), Staš Zupanc (SI), Credit: filmstill

Fear Free, TV FREE Europe, film still

Fear Free, Jasna Hribernik (SI) Sarah de Günther (HU) Immanuel Hofman (GR), Ivana Kalc (HR), Vasily Kuzmich (UA), Luka Mavrič (SI), Nabil Nazeem (PS), Kristian Petrovčič (SI), Matej Rimaič (SI), Adriana Kostja Ronkali (SI), Una Savić (RS), Parisa Zaeri (IR), Staš Zupanc (SI), Credit: Archive UNG AU

Fear Free, Jasna Hribernik (SI) Sarah de Günther (HU) Immanuel Hofman (GR), Ivana Kalc (HR), Vasily Kuzmich (UA), Luka Mavrič (SI), Nabil Nazeem (PS), Kristian Petrovčič (SI), Matej Rimaič (SI), Adriana Kostja Ronkali (SI), Una Savić (RS), Parisa Zaeri (IR), Staš Zupanc (SI), Credit:Archive UNG AU

JASNA HRIBERNIK (SI): completed her studies in film and TV directing at the Academy of Film Radio, Theatre and TV in Ljubljana. Since 1985, she has been working as a freelance film director and video artist, making video films, video installations and other multimedia works. She is an internationally renowned and award-winning creator of documentary films and film essays. Since 2012, she has been collaborating with the Academy of Arts of the University of Nova Gorica as an associate professor in the Master’s study program with the course Space and Time in Moving Images and in Bachelor’s study program with the course Promo Film (promoting Art, Science and Humanitarian themes).

SARAH DE GÜNTHER (HU) Sarah is born in Dresden, GDR, 1983. She is a Budapest-based performance artist and thinker. Sarah’s trans-disciplinary practice builds on her Diploma in “Drama, Theatre, Media” at the Institute of Applied Theatre Studies (Gießen, 2011), as well as on her Studies of Romanistik, Sociology and Psychology (Heidelberg). She co-founded the Budapest artists coop. Pneuma Szöv. in 2008, where she has mostly worked as an artistic director, researcher and performer ever since. She is co-founder of the performance collective Mobile Albania, dealing with translocal forms of organization beyond the space-time-logic of capitalism.

Credits

Leading organization of the project is Pneuma Szöv., a Budapest based artist collective; Project group: artistic director Sarah de Güther (Pneuma Szöv., HU), project coordinator Zsuzsa Berecz (Pneuma Szöv., HU), lead contributor from University of Nova Gorica School of Arts Jasna Hribernik (SI), Andreas Liebmann (Tårnby Park Studio, DE), Alfred Masal (Studio Oberwart AU), Alexander Pehlemann (Studio Leipzig, GE), and Peter Purg (UNG School of Arts, SI). FEAR FREE, mentors: Assoc. Prof. Jasna Hribernik from the School of Arts, University of Nova Gorica, and Sarah Günther from the artistic group Pneuma Szöv (Budapest). Students: Immanuel Hofman (GR), Ivana Kalc (HR), Vasily Kuzmich (UA), Luka Mavrič (SI), Nabil Nazeem (PS), Kristian Petrovčič (SI), Matej Rimaič (SI), Adriana Kostja Ronkali (SI), Una Savić (RS), Parisa Zaeri (IR), Staš Zupanc (SI). Guests: Jasna Hribernik (SI) moderator, Sarah Günther (Hu) Zsuzsa Berecz (HU), ANDREAS LIEBMANN (DE), ALFRED MASAL (AU), ALEXANDER PEHLEMANN (GE), Adriana Kostja Ronkali – BA student of UNG School of Arts (SI).