• Rats are taking a rest. 3rd festival will presumably happen on the first weekend of july 2009. We will open the entries sooner - in the beginning of 2009. See you!
   
• We are happy to announce the winners of 2. International video festival Electric rats dream video dreams.
  SECTION DEBITANTS:
due to small amount of competition awared wasn't decided.
SECTION ONE MINUTE VIDEO (300 €):
CLOSE TO HOME, JAN HAKON ERICKSEN (SWEDEN)
SECTION VIDEO SHOT BY MOBILE PHONE( 500 €):
MANUELA, LEPO JO NOSIŠ, MIHA KNAVS (SLO)
SECTION ANIMATION (300€):
LENGHT OF THEIR STAY, DANIELA KRAJČOVA (SLOVAKIA)
HONORABLE AWARD:
JESUS, JESUS CHRIST, JON MONAGHAN (USA)
SECTION ANYTHING GOES (300€):
ETUDE, DARIO BARDIČ (NETHERLANDS)
HONORABLE AWARD:
TERMINAL COMMUNICATIONS, MICHAEL FORTUNE (IRELAND)

Titles of videos that will be shown on 19. LIFFe will be published later. Take notice of our web page.
   
• On the Mobitel Planet most user's vote (31 %) went to video CLOSE TO HOME, JAN HAKON ERICKSEN (SWEDEN). The winner will receive award by sponsors (Cenex / Fivia Vojnik).
   
• CATALOUGE 08  |  TIMETABLE 08
   
• We are organising this year's festival in cooperation with Media fest by Youth Center Celje.
   
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RATS ALSO ON LIFFe

  We are happy fot the great news: Ljubljana's International Film festival, LIFFe, has excepted rats among them! This actually means two things: 1.) Chosen videos (probably the winners plus potential few) will be played ... More >>
• Last deadline for entrys for the festival has passed, yet the envelopes will still be coming to us for some time. Again we have received videos from all over the world, and from verry different artist. Video animation arrived from last year's winner of special award, Jihyun An. (With great joy we can say that the new category is verry well represented.) There's a video from Miha Mazzini (from his project simple story, which is great stuff). There's a video from Filip Peruzović, a winner of Palunko, script course from Zagreb, whose works are momentarily in Hollywood, L.A. And last but completely not the least, there's a first video by 12 years old Žan; the video is titled Dreams about Fish, and he described it like this: »Dreams about fish. Dreams become reality. In the end I eat my dreams.«
Whoever you, who sent us your video, are, you are a good company.
Even now we know that there will be at least as manny videos as last year. They will be rolling from 2. – 6.7. 2008 – all over Celje. New locations are Račka Galerry and outdoor Lapidary of Pokrajinski muzej Celje, and another location, the one that will be the place of official opening and closure of the festival, Mladinski Center Celje – Mladinski Center is this year preparing it's Media fest back to back with our festival. 
This year's author in focus is Ema Kugler.
A change hapenned: due to the works on Stari grad this years »big concert« will not be hapenning there, but in Lapidary – and the main group will be Silence. Before the concert you will be enchanted by video projection of Alterra (ex Miladoyka Youneed, Lolita, etc. members).
Follow the news – there will be manny of them.
Programme is coming soon.
• Rats are scattering back.The date of this year's festival is 2. - 6.7. 2008. Entry form follows in the beginning of march!

•Some time has passed since our joy about first edition of International Video Festival Electric Rats Dream Video Dreams had to transform itself into joy for another set of conversations and decisions. We were glad about what we did the first time and how it was received, but that doesn't mean we have been blind towards our mistakes. Besides, there's always room for something new.

First of all, new things happened in our midst: our head of programme, Hana S Vodeb, had to move away from her festival responsibilities because the lack of time. Our new head of programme is a friend we know from last year's jury: Tevž Logar.

The programme of the second edition of the festival is coming together while you are reading this lines, but of course, some things are already certain, and we are glad as any young rat can be to inform you: SECOND FESTIVAL WILL BE GOING ON FROM 2. – 6.7.2008.

This years festival will be going on back – to back – with Media fest by Celjski Mladinski Center.

The ENTRY FORM for our festival will be online (and traveling through the net) from beginning of march. We wil be receiving videos until 25th of may. Watch out: there's one new category in our competitions programme as well: »computer animation.«

The jury is already decided: from the literary, film and digital waters we called 5 smart people that will decide winners in every category. Zdravko Duša is, amongst other things, mentor of Digič festival and editor of Mladinska knjiga. We wanted to become international in question of jury, and the idea of having a jury member from last festival's competition was apealing (we attend to do this every year), so we called Stanka Gjurić. She is the debitant winner of last year (Spavanje i sanjanje). Nevenka Šivavec is a custos in Celje's Likovni salon and coordinator of Celje Artist-in-residence programme. Tomaž Tomažin is a video artist, a sculptor and master of Arts that represents Slovenian younger video force. Zemira Pečovnik is one of those people that made the slovenian video scene. She may remind us that something we think is new had been done already thousand times before, and probably by her.

The video workshop will be going on just as last year and will be runned by Neven A. Korda.

Another new thing is a blog entry on the internet page, runned by Taja Zorman and Peter Zupanc. This is where you may find news before they become official and actually watch the festival in the making.

•Rats were scattered to the four winds. They escaped from the dog days and creeped into the cool holes where they can plan their return to Celje. They will tell us in autumn when they are coming. Some of them seceded from the group and started a journey. First just arrived back to Croatia with Stanka, second went to Norway to reach Jan, another achieved Ljubljana and Amir, one jumped to Poland, more precisely to Tomasz from Poznan, one is walking to German, to group Sound Nomads and the last one decided to take aeroplane directly to New York to see JiHyun. All of them will proudly represent and defend their new owners, winners and honourable winners of the first international video festival.

So…That we won't forget our rats, while they are cooling in a shade or rooting in a plash, you can see photos from festival's happening and accompanying programme on our page in photo gallery. Here you can also see the results of our video workshop with Neven Korda.