Kolja Saksida is a multimedia artist, active mainly in the field of film as a director, animator, actor and producer. His animated films have been shown at festivals and broadcast on television worldwide. Together with Marko A. Kovačič, he directed three animated short films featuring the Plastos Civilization. Up till now his most notable production was an animated series Koyaa that has been shown on the Slovenian national television throughout the 2005 season. With a numerous team he realized a short stop-motion animated film entitled Kiddo - The Slingshot. Kolja Saksida participated as an artist in residence at CEC Arts Link (New York), Open Workshop (Denmark), the Berlinale Talent Campus (Germany). He is a co-founder and director of production house ZVVIKS, Institute for film and audiovisual production, based in Ljubljana.
Production: Forum Ljubljana / Zwiks production, 2003
In the year 2119 inside a base camp of Plastoses in the Saratov area a doctor is creating a fast Plastos Fesor to cope with the radioactive Kyrgyz steppe. The animations that are connected to Marko A. Kovačič’s artistic practice are the result of...
Production: Forum Ljubljana / ZVVIKS production, 2003
Lab Party is a story about the cloning and genetic mechanical mutation of living beings after the year 2227. The setting is a laboratory where laboratory technician Plastos encounters problems and runs into a malfunction. He tries to solve the issue to no...
Production: ZVVIKS Production, 1999
Shot in 8 mm, the film takes inspiration from the genre of action film. In particular it ironically reconstructs the dynamics of a pursuit, the suspense, and the sudden cuts of the martial art film of the '70s. With the same purpose it uses a grained...