Retrospective of Kozole Films on Show in North America
Films by director Damjan Kozole will be screened in North America this summer in what will be the biggest presentation of Slovenian film to American audiences.
The first stop will be the Washington, D.C. based American Film Institute, where the films will be shown as of 15 July.
All of Kozole's feature films will be screened, namely "Usodni telefon" ("The Fatal Telephone", "Remington", "Stereotip" (Stereotype), "Porno Film", "Rezervni deli" (Spare Parts) and his latest work, "Delo osvobaja" ("Labour Equals Freedom"), as well as his short film "Europa", which is part of the "Visions of Europe" omnibus.
The retrospective will move to the New York Museum of the Moving Image and the Chicago-based Facets Multimedia Centre in July. In August, the films will be shown in Canada, namely the Ottawa Cinematheque Canada and the Vancouver Pacific Cinematheque, to travel on to Houston, San Francisco and Los Angeles in September.
The 41-year-old author will attend the openings in Washington, New York and Chicago. In Washington, the Slovenian Embassy will host a special reception at the American Film Institute, according to producer Daniel Hocevar of the production house Emotionfilm.
Kozole's best-known work is "Spare Parts", a critically acclaimed drama about human trafficking, which was declared the best Slovenian film of 2003 at the Slovenian Film Festival. The film also competed at the Berlin Film Festival and received awards at Montpellier, Sarajevo and Trieste festivals.
The traveling retrospective has been organised by the Facets Multimedia Centre
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