Mila Peršin (1999) studies the Conceptualisation of space at the Academy of Visual Arts (AVA) in Ljubljana. As a high school student she, with her video installation, attended a youth Triennale for modern arts in Tallinn called Eksperimenta! Mila was a part of the youth jury at various festivals, for example, Liffe (Ljubljana International Film Festival), Zlata paličica (Festival of Performing Arts for Children and Young People), Film na oko (Internatinal Film Festival for Youth in Ljubljana), and Opus (International Competition of Young Dance Creators). She was also an organising member of Sonica (Festival of Contemporary Electronic Music and Transitory Art), Docu Rough Cut at Sarajevo Film Festival, Indigo festival (Festival of Contemporary Ideas), Mladi levi (International Contemporary Performing Arts Festival), Kino Otok (Isola Cinema International Film Festival), and FeKK (Ljubljana Short Film Festival). Her first short film Tetka Milena (Auntie Milena) was selected for the competing part of FeKK and FSF (Festival of Slovenian Film). Since 2019, she has been working at DobraVaga gallery as a member of its creative team.
(photo: Lana Špiler, Nika Jurman)
Production: SCCA-Ljubljana, 2021
The program contains 10 short videos from different periods of Slovenian film and video production, which are connected at different levels and coincide with the short film Auntie Milena. The red thread of the program is memories. Memories that translate...
Production: AVA - Akademija za vizualne umetnosti, 2019
A documentary portrait of my great-aunt from Sarajevo who moved to a small shed next to her house in the beginning of war in the year 1992, after her husband and two sons died. Pink house, where everything inside is wrapped in cling flim, became her own m...