VIDEO GALLERY 2017 Kurja Polt 4: Trailer Countercultural Cult: Politics, Drugs, Freedom and Disillusionment in American Cinema 1967-75 Dr Jamie Sexton (Northumbria University, UK) Previously Banned: The ‘Video Nasties’ and Moral Panic as Marketing Strategy on DVD Dr Kate Egan (Aberystwyth University, UK) Torture Porn as Political Allegory Dr Steve Jones (Northumbria University, [...]
Day 3 Photo: Nada Žgank
Cult film conference Photo: Nada Žgank
DAY 2 Photo: Domen Pal
Festival opening Photo: Domen Pal
GALLERY 2017 Festival opening Day 2 Cult film conference Day 3 Day 4 Festival closing
FROM THE COLLECTION: REPRESSION AND REVOLT ON POSTERS Silvan Furlan Hall, Slovenian Cinematheque 19. 4. – 31. 5. 2017 Festivals devoted to genre film, special topics and content that the mass film audience might consider exotic, are most precious for film museums such as the Slovenian Cinematheque. Not only do they enrich the screen, [...]
TIMETABLE Curtain raiser! / 28. 3. at 20:30 / Kinodvor SMOKING CAUSES COUGHING + Opening of 10 YEARS OF KURJA POLT Photo Exhibition ALL FILMS ARE ENGLISH SPOKEN OR SUBTITLED (with the exception of Smoking Causes Coughing on March 28).
CULT FILM CONFERENCE: TRASH OR TREASURE? THE POLITICS OF GENRE CINEMA 21. 4. 2017 / 14:00 – 17:30 / Kinodvor The existence and continued growth of festivals that focus upon the horror, sci-fi and fantasy film genres and cult cinema (what we might broadly term ‘genre film festivals’) has been [...]
HOW TO MAKE A FANZINE Genre film fanzine workshop 19. 4. – 23. 4. 2017 / Application deadline: April 5 Kurja Polt fanzine No.1: Pullum Cutis Fanzines appeared in the 1930s as fan publications in the field of genre cinema, especially fantasy and science fiction films. They represent a bountiful alternative [...]
