Bugbrain, Inštitut za animacijo
Polje 18, SI-1410 Zagorje ob Savi
Phone386 (0) 3 566 8780
Founded byDušan Kastelic
Bugbrain Studio
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Past events
23 Nov 2018
25 Nov 2018
GermanyBerlinSputnik Kino
New Slovenian Cinema, featuring screenings of Ivan, directed by Janez Burger (Staragara); The Miner, directed by Hanna A. W. Slak (Nukleus Film); Men Don't Cry, co-produced by Iridium Film; The Box, an animation by Dušan Kastelic (Bugbrain Studio); the short film The Invisible Hand of Adam Smith by Slobodan Maksimović, co-produced by Radio-Television Slovenia (RTV Slovenia); Assunta, directed by Ester Ivakić and produced by Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television (AGRFT); Chasm, directed by Ana Trebše and co-produced by Mangart Production Group Ltd; Dance of Love, directed by Leo Černic and produced by Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television (AGRFT); A Very Short Film, directed by Asja Trost; and documentaries Spreading the Seed by Ana Cerar, produced by Luksuz Production and Growing Up by Siniša Gačič and Dominik Mencej, produced by Zuhr Film, organised by Periskop
13 Oct 2018
14 Oct 2018
TaiwanTaichung CityShowtime Cinemas S2Taichung International Animation Festival TIAF
The screening of The Box, an animation by Dušan Kastelic (Bugbrain Studio, Radio-Television Slovenia (RTV Slovenia)), with the director's attendance, in the Competition section
6 Oct 2018
7 Oct 2018
RussiaSaint PetersburgAlexandrinsky TheatreRussia Indie Film Festival RUIFF
The screening of The Box, an animation by Dušan Kastelic (Bugbrain Studio, Radio-Television Slovenia (RTV Slovenia)), in the Official Competition section
Animated films
Dušan Kastelic's recent animated film The Box begun his international festival tour after winning the Vesna Award at the Festival of Slovenian Film in 2017. At the Californian Cinequest Festival this nightmarish allegory of a passivised society received The Best Animated Short Film Award. This automatically put it on the 2019 list of qualified films for the Animated Short Oscar.
His previous animated film Chicory 'n' Coffee [Čikorja an' kafe] kicked off in 2008 at the Festival of Slovenian Film where it received the Vesna Award for the Best Animation as "one of the best achievements of Slovene animation and short films in general". Since then it has been travelling around the globe and has received numerous awards: the Pilar Bardem Award at the Cineposible Festival, the Best Animated Film Award at the International Film Festival in San Joaquin, the Best Animation Short and Special Jury Prize at the animation festival Mundos Digitales, the Best Animation at the 22nd Foyle Film Festival, and the Best Film at the Levante International Film Festival. In the 3D World December 2010 issue the Chicory 'n' Coffee was listed among "the 100 CG shorts you must see".
Kastelic's first 3D computer animation and his first short animation film was Perk, a video spot which was conceived in 2002 in a collaboration with the polka-punk band Orlek.
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Gallery
![Prepovedano mlajšim od 15let [Prohibited under the age of 15], a series of short animated films, Bugbrain Studio, 2003](/en/File:Bugbrain_-_Dusan_-_02.jpg)
![Animatorjevo življenje [Animator's Life], Bugbrain Studio](/en/File:Bugbrain_-_Dusan_-_07.jpg)
![Partizani [The Partisans] comic strip by Dušan Kastelic, made for the political magazine Mladina in 1988 preceding the disintegration of Yugoslavia, Bugbrain Studio](/en/File:Bugbrain_Studio_1988_Partizani_Dusan_Kastelic.jpg)
![JBTZ afera [JBTZ affair] comic strip by Dušan Kastelic, a political thriller, dealing with true events from Yugoslav political history in a humorous and disrespectful manner, Bugbrain Studio, 1991](/en/File:Bugbrain_Studio_1991_JBTZ_afera_Dusan_Kastelic.jpg)
![Kulturčniki [culture workers], comics by Dušan Kastelic, Bugbrain Studio](/en/File:Bugbrain_Studio_2002_Kulturcniki_Dusan_Kastelic.png)