Know Your Stones
TITLE
Know Your Stones
DIRECTOR
Katarina Jazbec
COUNTRY
Slovenia
YEAR
2023
DURATION
21′
GENRE
Documentary short
Know Your Stones
As we face climate change, young activists, steelworkers, and a geologist come together in a time-travelling space full of nightmares and aspirations.
DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY - Katarina Jazbec
Katarina Jazbec, a visual artist working in film and photography, was born in 1991, in Slovenia, and has been living in Rotterdam since 2015. She received her BA from the Faculty of Economics in Ljubljana and her MA in Photography from the AKV | St. Joost art academy in Breda (NL). In her film works, Katarina searches for new narrative forms by using interdisciplinary and collaborative artistic strategies. She is drawn to exploring the fragility and agency of human and non-human critters in the current economic system. Her previous short film You Can’t Automate Me premiered at the International Film Festival in Rotterdam in June 2021. Her films have been shown at numerous festivals all around the world and at exhibition spaces such as TENT Rotterdam. She is the first recipient of the RTM Pitch Award by the International Film Festival Rotterdam. Katarina is currently doing a two-year international residency programme at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam.
- DirectorKatarina Jazbec
- Screenplay Katarina Jazbec
- Cinematography Tom Otte
- Cast
- EditingJesse Immanuel Bom, Katarina Jazbec
- Producer/s Urbane Künste Ruhr, Katarina Jazbec
- Production Company
- Distributor/s Lights On Film
- Project TitleKnow Your Stones
- Project TypeDocumentary short
- Completion Date 1 January 2023
- Country of originSlovenia
- Country of filmingSlovenia
- Language
- First-time Filmmaker No
- Student ProjectNo
Katarina Jazbec
Katarina Jazbec, a visual artist working in film and photography, was born in 1991, in Slovenia, and has been living in Rotterdam since 2015. She received her BA from the Faculty of Economics in Ljubljana and her MA in Photography from the AKV | St. Joost art academy in Breda (NL). In her film works, Katarina searches for new narrative forms by using interdisciplinary and collaborative artistic strategies. She is drawn to exploring the fragility and agency of human and non-human critters in the current economic system. Her previous short film You Can’t Automate Me premiered at the International Film Festival in Rotterdam in June 2021. Her films have been shown at numerous festivals all around the world and at exhibition spaces such as TENT Rotterdam. She is the first recipient of the RTM Pitch Award by the International Film Festival Rotterdam. Katarina is currently doing a two-year international residency programme at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam.
