Animation Today
– Brunch with AuthorsTALK AND SCREENING PROGRAM
7th March - 6th May 2020.
Within the exhibition “From Imagination to Animation – 60 Years of Zagreb School of Animated Films”, and in cooperation with Museum of Contemporary Art - Zagreb, we schedule meetings with authors, theoreticians, and producers of contemporary Croatian animated films to take place each Saturday noon in the period between 7th March and 6th May 2020.
We invite you to participate in the dialogue and explore various faces of artistic animation, its contemporary trends and the methods it employs, the production and educational challenges it faces, and to take a peek into numerous forms of cooperation this complex art expression has to offer.

MSU Zagreb / 7th March - 6th May 2020.
Darko Masnec & Petra Zlonoga
Marko Tadić, Marko Dješka & Hana Tintor, Marta Stražičić
MSU ZAGREB / 7th March - 6th May 2020.
Theme & GuestsDarko Masnec & Petra Zlonoga
Animation in the Context of Multimedia and Video Games
This versatile artist and a video-game programmer works currently as a docent at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. He is the author of the animated film “I Already Know What I Hear”, which has won multiple awards, has worked as an animator in many short film projects, and has published several articles and lectures on the topic of animation and video games. In the gallery context, he is mostly focused on conceptual art practices.
Marko Tadić, Marko Dješka & Hana Tintor, Marta Stražičić
Engaged, Imaginary, Experimental
We are talking to the authors who aim at exploring potentials of animation as art but also as a socially engaged form.
Saturday
21st March/ 12 PM

Vanja Andrijević, Draško Ivezić, Igor Grubić
Stylistic Lines in Contemporary Croatian Production of Animation
Bonobostudio, Adriatic Animation, Kreativni sindikat
Saturday
18th April/ 12 PM

Professors & students
Profession – Animator!
How does one become an animator? How does one stay in touch with the latest technical and stylistic influences in animation within (and outside) the educational system?
We talk with professors, (former) students, and their guests about their experiences in the creation of the Department for Animation at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb.
Saturday
9th May 2020 / 12 PM

Lucija Mrzljak, Chintis Lundgren
Thomas & Ivana Volda
A View from the Outside – International Experiences
Saturday
23rd May 2020 / 12 PM

Davorka Begović
Original Music in Animation
Animation is a media that involves not only cooperation with fine artists but also with composers and authors whose works represent an integral part of the final product.
We will be led through a research of the recent music written particularly for this media by the musicologist Davorka Begović.
Saturday
6th June 2020 / 12 PM

MSU Zagreb / 30th January - 14th June 2020
Exhibition
From Imagination to Animation – 60 Years of Zagreb School of Animated Films
The Museum of Contemporary Art is presenting a great multimedia exhibition From Imagination to Animation: Six Decades of Zagreb Film.
The exhibition is dedicated to famous works of art created within this institution founded in 1953, which has produced more than two thousand animated, documentary, educational and feature films, as well as commercials in the six decades of its existence.
Organization and partners
The program of Animation Today - Brunch with authors is co-organized by the AM Center for Audiovisual Culture and Multimedia in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb.
The implementation of the Program is financially supported by the Croatian Ministry of Culture and the Croatian Audiovisual Center (HAVC).