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Silver Award: Experimental Film

"Nuclear Nymphs"

Petra Brnardic

  

What a tutta forza adventure! I returned from Novigrad excited, intoxicated and happy, dizzy with impressions of the entire kaleidoscope of film gems and in a state of being burningly intrigued, that prompted me to throw myself into a closer exploration of the seductive-dark canyon of recent works of the genres brilliantly presented by the Avant-Garde Horror & Fantasy Film Festival! My dreamy, furious and frenzied experimental fusion of image, poetry and performance, "The Butterfly and the Snake", received a special mention for a short hybrid genre film, but what I will remember even longer and more intensely is the fantastic atmosphere, wonderful people, excellent organization and magical, surreal experience!

 Sneak peek into business brainstorming

 

 Enantiodromia

- High Priestess - 

(Vertiginous voltage of veiled veins vain as a violet-vermilion vulture)

(The title "Enantiodromia" is inspired by the term I heard again in a podcast that preceded the one about Clarice Lispector, whom I just joyfully discovered. What drew me more to her literary opus is the statement, "This is not writing, this is pure witchcraft.") 

Moi a.k.a. LilithOceania

 

 Strawberry Mother Ocean

(acrylic painting from 2010s) 

 

 

Some of my old paintings from the late nineties in Uni to mid-2010s (mixed up)

- acrylic paint, oil, and sometimes resin as coating, on wood, canvas and paper -

 https://www.artemiziafoundation.org/artists/petra-brnardic

Artemizia Foundation: "Butterfly Effect" and "Black Siren"

 

 Woodoo Bitch

(...Kali_Forn(I, cat)ia...)

 

Stills from my poetic movie experiment "Satan´s Porcupine" ("Šejtanov dikobraz"), 2018.

I started playfully combining words and poetry with visual art in early 2000s, which resulted in my first film "Nigredo" (2004), frenetic, angsty examination of my disco-ball-faceted identity laced with carnal opulence, repulsively curious photomanipulations and heretic distortions/contortions. I edited photos in a primitive, punk manner and drew wacky neon pixelated creatures as extensions of myself in Microsoft Paint (saving them on floppy disks). The movie was presented in Nano Gallery as a part if my solo exhibition "Schizomania".

 "Satan´s Porcupine" was shown in Poetry In Preparation (video poetry evening), Prozori Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia and Zeljezara Festival - Visual Poetry And Prose Mix, Striegl Gallery, Sisak, Croatia.