Workshot: Vezi

From September 18 to 21, 2024, a children's stop-motion animation workshop with Asja Trost will be held as part of the StopTri International Film Festival. At the workshop, we will create a short animated film using the stop animation technique, which will be shown at the end of the festival.

In the introduction to the workshop, we will present the basic concept of transhumanism and collect ideas about what technology means to us today. At the same time, we will look for answers to questions such as: how will we connect in the future, in what way will we communicate, feel and make friends?

We will mainly focus on critical points, which we will try to depict in the practical part using the stop animation technique. We will use scrap electronics, spare parts, scraps and our bodies to create. The aim of the workshop is to create a short animated film.

Throughout the process, we will analyze the use of the equipment we need for this, while at the same time we will include a reflection on our dependence on technology. We will also look for our own views on so-called technological progress, emphasizing the origin, extraction and waste that the current system brings with it.

The workshop will be led by Asja Trost, her assistant will be Brina Fekonja. The workshop consists of four consecutive meetings, it will take place in the premises of the Maribor Puppet Theater, in the Museum Workshop and the Puppet Museum.

Dates of meetings

• Wednesday, September 18 - Friday, September 20 •• 4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

• Saturday, September 21 •• 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m

Asja Trost

Asja Trost, born in 1990 in Ljubljana, graduated in digital design in Berlin, where she also worked until 2016, later she received her master's degree at the Academy of Arts in Nova Gorica under the mentorship of Jasna Hribernik and Miha Colner. In her master's work, she dealt with the production of contemporary art, with a focus on institutionalized art form and activism. In his works, he uses a combination of analog and digital media, and with animation, mapping and experimental film, he represents various social situations that affect each of us. As a director and animator, she worked on Catican (2017), tHE mARRY jESUS galaxy (2017), A Very Short Film (2018) and Thou Art Thyself (2020). All films were screened at several Slovenian and international festivals (Festival of Slovenian Film, Kino Otok, Animateka, StopTrik). In 2018, tHE MARRY JESUS ​​GALAXY, which she created together with Mery Gobec, Sandra Jovanovska and Ines Sambas, was selected for the VAF New Talents section in the Czech Republic. As the third assistant director, she participated in the feature film Rudar (2017), under the direction of Hanna AW Slak, in the role of video assistant and as a video artist she worked in several theaters (Staatsoper Berlin, Maxim Gorki Theater, SNG NG). She animated several music videos and commercials, participated in several group exhibitions with video installations. In 2018, she prepared her first solo exhibition at the Customs House in Nova Gorica. Since 2016, he has been working internationally, without a permanent address and currently lives in Ljubljana.

The workshop is intended for children and young people between the ages of 8 and 15. Participation in the workshop is free, but the participants should provide their own lunch. The number of places is limited, prior registration is required at brina@stoptrik.com. We are accepting applications until Friday, September 11, 2024 or until the 8 vacancies are filled.

The workshop takes place within the framework of the 14th StopTrik international film festival, which is dedicated to stop animation. The producer of the festival is Pekarna Magdalenska mrže Maribor, the workshop is organized in cooperation with the Maribor Puppet Theatre.