DigitalBigScreen 2021

This year the international DigitalBigScreen festival presents itself in its eleventh edition. Three year ago was the first time that we presented 360° videos as a part of the festival. Since then we are every year inviting several artists who either make 360° videos, or deal with virtual reality. Presenting themselves are foreign and domestic artists, who upgrade their video production with innovative technologies. New technologies allow not only viewing the video, but also an interactive relation between the viewer and the video, in which the viewer somehow becomes part of the video.
The special guests of the festival are the international dance company EN-KNAP, which was founded in 1993 by a choreographer from Trbovlje Iztok Kovač. In Leuven, Belgium, under the wings of the production-management house Stuc and the Klapstuk Festival. They will present themselves with the new project stage360, where they will present excerpts of performances through VR glasses, where you, as a spectator, move from the seat in the auditorium to the middle of the stage, to the center of the dance events.
Nine authors from all over the world entered our Open call for 360°videos. With ten video works from the fields of animation, documentary film and art video, from which the expert panel, consisting of Andrej Uduč and Barbara Jazbec, selected five authors. Their works are available on VR goggles for the duration of the festival.
Despite the conditions in which we currently live, we remain creative and continue to open new chapters, seek new horizons and follow new trends in technology.

Barbara Jazbec, curator

DigitalBigScreen 360°

First place:
Sandrine Deumier (FR) – Delta

»If everything is connected, everything is vulnerable.«
This project attempts to explore / anticipate processes of technological witchcraft. »By imagining future technological tools centered on phenomena of empathy and interconnections between species, it proposes to invent forms of multi-consciousness and strategies for reappropriating animist imaginaries.«

Second place:
Yu-Hsuan Yao (TW) – Guan Luo Yin Seance

The sky is clear and the earth is full of spiritual energy, I plead with you three great grand aunts for inquiry. Guan Luo Yin is a popular seance ritual of Taoism in Taiwan, some claim they can reach out to the dead or spirits through the trip.
Project Guan Luo Yin Seance is an attempt to find the equation between rationality and spirituality.

Third place:
Teuta Pashnjari (AL) – I AM HOME

»I AM HOME is a performance piece that focuses on my strong connection to Albania, Greece, Germany and Finland.
In this performance video, I write ‘I am home’ in four different languages stating the importance and personal influences these countries have had in my life.«