Apr 10 2025 to Apr 10 2025 6:30 p.m.

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Where

Bangalore International Centre

7 4th Main Rd, Stage 2, Domlur 560071

Event Description

55 minutes | Slovenian with English subtitles | 2016

Ana Čigon | Director, screenplay, editing, camera, sound
Saša Spačal | Director, screenplay, animation, original soundtrack
Ida Hiršenfelder | Director, screenplay, editor, original soundtrack

Eight women working in the broad spectrum of scientific professions from artificial intelligence to programming and aviation, talk about the conditions in which they became interested in technical professions, the obstacles they confronted, and how they dealt with them.

In most technical occupations, women are still very poorly represented. However, those who have entered these fields of work despite the odds, usually show a very positive attitude towards their work, a pleasure in self-fulfillment through work, and professionalism in the occupation. The film reveals covert discrimination against women, which still prevents them from equally access to certain social spheres. The film also presented social circumstances that influence the decisions of individuals in the choice of their professions and how decisions are determined by gender.

The film presents: Alja Berčič Ivanuš, female airline captain, Adria Airways (co-pilot at the time of filming); Alja Isaković, co-founder of CodeCatz; KaktusKaktus, sound engineer, Radio Študent; Dr. Dunja Mladenić, head of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at Jozef Stefan Institute; Maja Smrekar, intermedia artist; Dr. Dragica Turnšek, micropalaeontologist; Dr. Mateja Verlič, project manager during the day, programmer at night; Larisa Vrhunc, Academic composition specialist, Faculty of Arts.

The screening will be followed by a conversation and audience Q&A moderated by Mateja Vodeb Ghosh, Slovenian Ambassador to India.

Speakers

Ana Čigon
Filmmaker
Ana Čigon (1982) is an artist from Slovenia who mainly works in video, film, animation and performance. She received a BA in Painting and Master Degree in Video at the Ljubljana Academy of Fine Arts and Design. She also received an MA in Interface Cultures at the University of Art and Design Linz (Kunstuniversität Linz) in Austria. Her documentary films mostly deal with feminist and social issues. Beside the production of documentary films she is also a video artist for theater and an active contemporary visual artist. She presents her works in solo and group exhibitions in Slovenia and internationally and received awards and nominations for her video works and films.

Ida Hiršenfelder
Filmmaker
Ida Hiršenfelder (Slovenia, 1977) is a sound artist and archivist. She was employed at the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova (2014–2021) on projects related to digital archives as an editor of Web Museum, a repository for contemporary audio-visual art. She is a member of L’Internationale Online editorial board and co-curator of the Glossary of Common Knowledge. She is an advisor for the Nomad Dance Academy network contemporary dance archives from the former Yugoslavia region. Previously, she was an archivist at DIVA Station, Digital Video Art Archive, SCCA, Centre for Contemporary Arts – Ljublja­na (2007–2013) with over a thousand video works by local artists. As a sound artist, she works in bioacoustics, interspecies communication, electroacoustic composition and sound spatialisation. She studies at the Institute of Sonology at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague (2021–).

Mateja Vodeb Ghosh
Slovenian Ambassador to India
Ms. Mateja Vodeb Ghosh has entered diplomatic service in 1996. At the headquarters at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Slovenia, she worked at the Department for Asia, Department for Africa and Middle East and as an Adviser to State Secretary for multilateral affairs. At the missions abroad she served as the Third Secretary at the Embassy pf Slovenia in Tokyo, Japan, as the First Counsellor at the Permanent Mission of Slovenia at United Nations in New York, and twice, as Minister Counsellor and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Embassy of Slovenia in New Delhi, India. She has been appointed Ambassador of Slovenia to India on 20 August 2021, and she presented the credentials to the President of India on 26 October 2021.

She graduated from Law Faculty at the University of Ljubljana. Speaks English, Croatian, French, and basic Japanese. She enjoys reading, music, travelling and cricket. She is married and has one son.