Video on the Beach V 

Video on the Beach V / NONHUMAN

The Tower 1, Andraž Žigart, Slovenia, 2025, 4’30’’, Inventory, Ivan Marković, Serbia, 2025, 21’, Blooming, Lara Šifrer, Slovenia, 2025, 25’17”, Leptir / Butterfly,Sunčana Brkulj, Croatia, Denmark, 2024, 8’07”, Cuando todo arde / When Everything Burns, Maria Belen Poncio, Argentina, USA, 2024, 15’, Starvation, Aleksandra Stosić, Slovenia, 2024, 12’, Catlands, Ana Čigon, Slovenia, 2024, 9’44’’, Gerhard, Ulu Braun, Germany, 2025, 10’15”

The subjects in Sunday’s programme are not people, but spaces, plants, towers, nature and animals. Its main question is how to shift the narrative away from an anthropocentric perspective to listen to the messages of the nonhuman world. Through the dynamic presentation of its features, the film The Tower 1 creates the impression that the tower has a character of its own. In Inventory, we follow the slow transformation of the once iconic Sava Centre, which, newly privatised, is losing its signature identity in an ongoing transformation. With an unexpected focus on a houseplant, Blooming shows scenes from the life of an unknown girl. Butterfly playfully raises questions about how the environment can affect a community and vice versa, while When Everything Burns and Catlands continue and develop this idea towards a potential dystopia that increasingly overlaps with the present reality. In Starvation, the dystopia continues on a grotesque and dark note, with the narration delivered in the language of social networks. The programme closes with Gerhard, which presents the phenomenon of social obsession with the cult of the famous artist through the cynical use of artificial intelligence.