STOJAN PELKO: SENTI-MENTAL LANDSCAPE Mr. Pelko’s lecture will take place on Wednesday, at 17.00. Please join us on the fifth floor (room 526) at the Faculty of Arts, Aškerčeva 2, Ljubljana. “You have all seen Slovene natural landscape. You all know our economic and gastronomic landscape. But is it possible that some of you might be interested in some pictures that formed our mental or even sentimental landscape? It’s quite risky to present Slovenia and its cinema to the people who visit it at least once a year. It’s even more risky to present it to people who live here every day. Instead of ethos & ethnos I would prefer to talk about photos & pathos: about few moving pictures and some emotions they were able to create in their time – and to stay in our minds. I hope that through some of those pictures you would also feel parts of our cinematographic history – and when I say “ours”, I don’t have in mind national frontiers but simply this part of the world and this part of its first – and last – century.”

STOJAN PELKO

Stojan Pelko holds a PhD. in philosophy and is a film publicist and essayist. He wrote his masters and his PhD. thesis on the subject of film theory, and is a lecturer at the Department of Sociology at the Faculty of Arts. In April 2001 he founded Korpus, a communication counselling and strategic marketing enterprise, of which he is the director and senior adviser. Prior to that he was creative director of the Luna advertising agency (1997-2001), chief editor of the film and television magazine Ekran (1991-1996), a member of the National Council for Culture (2000-2004), and a board member of the European commission Media Plus (as an independent expert on behalf of Slovenia ). He was also chairman of the Slovenian Film Fund’s Council of Administration from 2001 to 2005. Pelko is the author of books on film directors Joseph Losey and Wim Wenders, editor of the Voids of Film and Architecture miscellany and numerous scientific articles, and a translator of French authors (Lacan, Deleuze, Virilio, Baudrillard, Negri et al.). He has co-written or cooperated on screenplays for feature films such as The Fatal Telephone (D.Kozole), The Queen of Hearts (B. Jurjaševič) and Herzog (M. Milavec), and has received the following awards: The Golden Bird Award for film journalism (1987), the Župančič Award of the City of Ljubljana for co-authorship of the In the Realm of Film monograph (1988), the Metod Badjur Award for co-authorship of the best screenplay (Herzog) at the Festival of Slovene Film in Portorož (1996), and the the creative director of the best advertising campaign Delo (1998). The Cobiss Library Information System produces over 200 hits for “Stojan Pelko”.