Screenings

* In-person: talks and Q&A


Retrospectives

2019
  • Slovenska Kinoteka - AZ: Energies of Motion (Energije Gibanja), 9 Screenings, March-April 2019, Ljubljana ✴︎    Slovene
2008
2001
  • Slovenska Kinoteka - Kino Integral: 'AZ: Pripoved energij' /'A Tale of Energies', September 2001, Ljubljana *    Slovene
1996
  • Slovenska Kinoteka / Cankarjev Dom: 'AZ: Soundvision of the World (4 programs: Ocean Rituals, Journeys, the Human Condiion, Elemental Energies) & the Secrets of SočaTime Horizon installation (21.-24.2.1996), Ljubljana *
1994
  • Centre Georges Pompidou: AZ retrospective (3 programs), 15-17 juin, Paris *    French
1987
  • Deutsches Filmmuseum, Avatngarde und Experiment: Andrej Zdravič (3 programs), 24-26 November, Frankfurt am Main *    German

 

One-Person Shows / selected

2017
  • Kinodvor cinema theatre, Ocean Cantos I-IX, Slovenian première, Ljubljana*
2017
  • Prešeren Award Winners Gallery Kranj (Layer House), Ocean Cantos I-IV, Kranj, Slovenia*
2017
  • Alfred Ehrhardt Stiftung (Foundation), Ocean Cantos I-IV première (see the 'Exhibitions' page), Berlin*
2008
  • Exploratorium, the Museum of science, art and human perception, San Francisco * 
2003
  • ADN - Associació per a la Defensa de la Natura: Riverglass, Andorra La Vella, Andorra
  • Kibla Multimedia Center: ‘Živa Energija!’ /’Live Energy!’ (2-day program), Maribor, Slovenia *
2000
  • Goethe-Institut San Francisco - ‘Best of INPUT’: Riverglass, San Francisco *
1999
  • Anthology Film Archives: Films of AZ - Phenix, Currents, Anastomosis, &…, New York City
 
  • 48th Venice Biennale - Slovene Pavilion: Ocean Lava, 1999, Venice, Italy *
 
  • Fortress Kluže - ‘ARTileria-Intra Muros’ event: Riverglass open-air screening, Bovec, Slovenia *
 
  • Puskin Filmtheater: Riverglass, organized by the Republic of Slovenia Embassy, Budapest, Hungary *
1997
  • Ljubljana Castle courtyard: Riverglass – première screening, European Month of Culture, Ljubljana *
 
  • The San Francisco Cinematheque, San Francisco * 
1994
  • Cinematek Filmmuseum / Musée du Cinéma - ‘Filmexprmntl’: Andrej Zdravič, Bruxelles *    French
1992
  • First Person Cinema: Obon & Ocean Beat, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado *
1991
  • Anthology Film Archives: ‘The Elements: Air and Ocean’ - Films by AZ, New York City   
 
  • The Exploratorium: Ocean Beat première and AZ retrospective, San Francisco *
 
  • Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center: Ocean Beat, Buffalo, New York *
 
  • San Francisco Cinematheque: Ocean Beat Soundvision, San Francisco *
 
  • Moderna galerija – Informacijski center / Museum of Modern Art: Ocean Beat, Ljubljana *
 
  • The Slovenian Arts Coucil: Ocean Beat, UWM - Milwaukee, Wisconsin *
1987
  • Media Study/Buffalo, New York State University, Buffalo, New York *
 
  • The Exploratorium: 'AZ - The Elements of Nature’, San Francisco
 
  • The Slovenian Arts Council, ‘Films by AZ’, UWM Milwaukee, Wisconsin *
1984
  • Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago, Illinois *
 
  • Perihelion Gallery, Lincoln Center for the Arts: ‘Three Waterscapes’, Milwaukee, Wisconsin *
1983
  • Ars Gallery: ‘24 f.p.s. - Film Frames’ exhibition and open-air screening, Ljubljana *
 
  • ŠKUC Gallery – Student Cultural Center /2 shows, Ljubljana *
 
  • Viba Film Studio, Ljubljana *
 
  • Pacific Film Archive: Anastomosis, University Art Museum, Berkeley, California
1982
  • The Cultural Integration Fellowship: ‘The Work of AZ’ /3 programs/, San Francisco *   
 
  • ‘Rebuilding the Human Body’: Microsurgical Transplantation I-IV, Anthology Film Archives, New York
1981
  • The Cinematheque: Ocean and Anastomosis, SF Art Institute, San Francisco *
 
  • Pasadena FilmForum: Anastomosis and other works, Pasadena, California *
1980
  • Pacific Film Archive, University Art Museum, Berkeley, California *
 
  • The Cinematheque: AZ Sound Activated Films (Super-8mm), Art Institute, San Francisco *
 
  • Pasadena FilmForum: ‘In Person: Andrej Zdravič’, Pasadena, California *
 
  • Encounter Cinema, UCLA: AZ Sound Activated Films, Los Angeles *
 
  • South Western Alternate Media Project: AZ Sound Activated Films, El Paso, Texas *
  • Rising Sun Media Arts Center, Film is Art series: AZ Sound Activated Films, Santa Fe, NM *   
 
  • The Millenium, ‘Personal Cinema Program’: Currents and Super-8 Films, New York City *   
 
  • Rocky Mountain Film Center - ‘Avant-Garde Cinema’: AZ Super-8 films, Boulder, Colorado *
 
  • Capella Underground, Trieste * 1979
1979
  • Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, New York *
 
  • Museum of Contemporary Art / Muzej Savremene Umetnosti, Belgrade, Serbia *
 
  • Student’s Cultural Center, Belgrade, Serbia *
 
  • Center for Multimedia Research, Zagreb, Croatia *
 
  • Rihard Jakopič Art Gallery, Ljubljana * 
 
  • Media Study/Buffalo: New York: Five Studies and Via Sound, Buffalo, New York *   
1978
  • The Collective for Living Cinema: New York Studies première, New York City *
 
  • Utica College, ‘Fall 1978 Film Series’, Utica, New York *
 
  • Viba Film Studio, Ljubljana *
 
  • Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania *
 
  • Collective for Living Cinema, New York City *
 
  • The Cinematheque: New York Studies 1-5, SF Art Institute, San Francisco *
1977
  • Media Study/Buffalo - Summer Institute in the Making and Understanding of Film and Media, Buffalo, New York
 
  • The Collective for Living Cinema, Andrej Zdravič, New York City *   
 
  • The Cinematheque: ‘Andrej Zdravič’s Phenix’, SF Art Institute, San Francisco *
1976
  • Anthology Film Archives: ‘Andrej Zdravič’ (1st One-Man show, Breath première), New York City *   

 

Visiting Filmmaker * / selected

2017
  • University of Ljubljana, Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Ljubljana*
2014
  • Universitá degli studi di Milano (Bicocca): seminar 'La poetica immaginale nel cinema "elementale" - Andrej Zdravič; coordinamento e conduzione: Prof. Paolo Mottana, Milano, Italy
2011
  • University of Ljubljana, Landscape Architecture Department, Ljubljana
2009
2008
  • Stanford University, Department of Art - MFA Art Practice program, Stanford, California
2007
  • Royal College of Art, the Curating Contemporary Art programme, London
2001
  • Long Island University, School of Visual Arts, Department of Film, New York
 
  • University of Ljubljana, Academy of Fine Arts: ‘Prostori Umetnosti’ - AZ talk & films, Ljubljana
 
  • University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences, Ljubljana
1997
  • University of Ljubljana, Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Ljubljana
1992
  • University of Wisconsin, Film Department, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1988
  • Academy of Art College: AZ - Elemental Energies, San Francisco
 
  • San Francisco State University, Visiting Filmmakers Colloquium, San Francisco
 
  • New York State 'Summer School of the Arts': AZ - Elemental Energies, Buffalo, New York
 
  • Städelschule, Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Frankfurt am Main
1984
  • University of Wisconsin, Department of Film, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1982
  • Columbia University, Dušan Makavejev’s class, New York City
 
  • University of Toledo, Department of Film, Ohio
1981
  • California State University - ‘Film Artists' film series, Sacramento, California
1980
  • University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California
 
  • CAL ARTS - California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California
 
  • University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado
1978
  • The New School, Jonas Mekas’ class - the ‘New York Avant-Garde’, New York City
 
  • State University of New York - Center for Media Study, Buffalo, New York
 
  • State University College at Syracuse, Utica, New York
 
  • State University College at Brockport, New York
 
  • Designer’s Societies of Slovenia and Croatia meeting, Castle Otočec, Slovenia
1977
  • Rutgers University, Ernest Gusella’s class, Newark, New Jersey
 
  • State University of New York, Cortland, New York
1976
  • Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
1975
  • MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Center for Creative Photography, Cambridge

 

Symposia and Conferences

2017
  • Slovenian Forestry Institute - 70th Anniversary Ceremony, screening The Forest (in-progress), Ljubljana*
2009
  • 'Let’s Talk About Water… in California': Riverglass; Hydrology and Climate Research Group, University of California October, Irvine   
 
 
  • ‘Days of Poetry and Wine’ Festival - Roundtable on Water & Riverglass screen., Medana, Slovenia *
2008
2007
  • CIWEM (Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management) Global Environment Conference - ‘Arts and the Environment’, London *   
 
  • Sharjah Biennial8 - Art and Ecology Symposium/ RSA: Riverglass, United Arab Emirates *    
2006
  • The European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture, and the Environment - EASLCE 2nd Biennial Conference - ‘Water: Literary, Cultural and Environmental Perspectives’: Riverglass; Alps-Adriatic University of Klagenfurt, Austria *
2005
 
  • Towards an Eco-Cinema’, Arts & Ecology Conference - Royal Society for Arts in partnership with Arts Council England, 28-29 Sept. 2005, Bristol, U.K. * (A partial transcript of the conference can be found in Interviews /AZ on his Work)
2003
  • ‘Pyrotechnies: Pour une histoire des arts incendiaires’: Origin (16 mars), Musée du Louvre, Paris    French
2002
  • Religion, Science and the Environment’ – the Adriatic Symposium 2002: ‘The Adriatic Sea: A Sea At Risk, A Unity Of Purpose’; screening Riverglass aboard the vessel sailing from Koper to Ravenna and Venice * 
 
  • ‘Wasser-Symposium’, Luzern, Switzerland *    German
 
  • ‘Liquid Light’ Summit: The Garden in the Machine’, 15th Virginia Film Festival, Charlottesville, Virginia
 
  • Jesenska filmska šola 2002 - XIII. mednarodni kolokvij filmske teorije /International Colloquy on Film Theory/, Andrej Zdravič: Video and Film-making - The Impact of Technology on Thought processes and Creativity, Slovenska Kinoteka, Ljubljana *   Slovene
2001
 
 
1999
  • Prešeren Fund Awards Ceremony: AZ’s statement and excerpts from Riverglass, Cankarjev Dom Cultural and Congress Centre, Ljubljana *
1998
  • INPUT’98 - XXI International Public Television Screening Conference: Riverglass, May 1998, Stuttgart, Germany *    
 

 

Group Shows  / selected

2016
  • The Slovenian Cinematheque, screening of Breath, Ljubljana*
2013
  • ‘Cinema Arts’ film program, The Exploratorium, San Francisco
 
  • ‘Vse svoje nosim s seboj’ /’All that’s mine I carry with me’: Breath, Galerija Miklova hiša, Ribnica, Slovenia *
2009
  • Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World - ‘Reflections on Water’: Riverglass, Exeter, U.K.
2006
  • Filmforum 30th Anniversary - Films from the closet of Terry Canon: Vsi sveti; The Egyptian, Los Angeles
 
  • ‘Till your Well Runs Dry: An Appreciation of Water’, Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, California
 
  • ‘Not at Ease and not at Rest’, Canyon Cinema, San Francisco
 
  • ‘Fluid Architectures’ / ‘Interstices’ - Storefront for Architecture at Anthology Film Archives, New York City
2004
  • International Media Art Award 2004 video program: Heartbeat, neVIDITELne, Prague
 
  • World Video Art - International Media Art Award 2004: Heartbeat, Noass Gallery, Riga, Latvia
 
  • International Media Art Award 2004 video program: Heartbeat, Kornhausforum, Berne, Switzerland
 
  • ‘InVISIBLE_art_science’ – Media Art Award: Heartbeat - ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie | Karlsruhe, Germany
2002
  • ’40 Years in Focus’: Part 2, 1971-1981, Special Film Programs, The Cinematheque, San Francisco
 
  • ‘The Flaherty’ program: Origin and Obon - National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
2001
  • ‘Best of Flaherty’ program: Origin - Museum of Modern Art, New York City *
 
  • ‘Nirvana Events’: Riverglass, Academie der Künste, Berlin
 
  • Doc Films, University of Chicago, Illinois
2000
 
  • ‘Revealing Bodies’ Exhibition and Film series: Anastomosis - the Exploratorium, San Francisco
 
  • Jeu de Paume Gallery / Tv ARTE programme - ‘Best of INPUT’: Riverglass, , Paris
1999
 
  • Anthology Film Archives: Riverglass, New York City
 
  • ‘Water Exposition’: Riverglass, Palais des Expositions, Namur, Belgium
1998
  • EXPO’98: National Day of the Republic of Slovenia, 23 May, 1989, Lisbon, Portugal *    Portugese
 
  • ‘Body of Work” - Medical Imagery in Experimental Cinema’: Anastomosis, Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, California
1997
  • University of Wisconsin, Mitchell Hall Cinema: Riverglass & Kres, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1991
  • ‘Icons, Rebels and Visionaries’ - The Organic Art: Ocean Beat, Northwest Film & Video Center, Oregon Art Institute, Portland, Oregon
 
  • Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, New York
 
  • ‘New Works from the Film-makers’ Coop’: Restless, Anthology Film Archives, New York City
1990
  • ‘Film as Art / Art in Film’ series - ‘Landscapes of the Mind’: Restless, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco *
1987
  • ‘Local Color - New Bay Area Films’, The Cinematheque, San Francisco *
 
  • ‘The Elements of Nature’, Exploratorium, San Francisco *
1985
  • ‘New Films 1985’, SF Cinematheque & No Nothing Cinema, Kokusai Theatre, San Francisco *
1982
  • ‘Newest American Cinema’, Film in the Cities, St.Paul, Minnesota
 
  • ‘10 Years of Living Cinema’, Collective for Living Cinema, New York *
1981
  • ‘20 Years of American 8mm and Super-8 Films’: Dom & Via Sound, Anthology Film Archives, New York City
1980
  • Verna Gillis' Soundscape: ‘AZ Films’: Dom & Via Sound, New York City *   
1978
  • ‘CAPS (Creative Artists Program Service) Recipients Retrospective’, Bleecker St. Cinema, New York City *
1977
  • ‘The Moving Image - New York City’, (3-day program), Collective for Living Cinema, New York City *
 
  • Summer Institute in the Making and Understanding Film and Media, Media Study/Buffalo, New York   
1976
  • ‘Films to Remember’: Phenix, Fine Arts Building, New York City *
1975
  • ‘Beau Fleuve’ - Media Study/Buffalo Program: Phenix, Center for Media Art, Paris
 
  • Media Study/Buffalo & Eire County Public Library Film Series: Phenix première, Buffalo, New York *

 

Festivals  / selected

2008
  • DC Environmental Film Festival, ‘World Water Day Tribute’ –Carnegie Institution of Washington, DC   
2007
  • Alpe Adria Film Festival: Ocean Beat & Origin, Open Air Kino, Gmünd, Austria *   
2004
  • 28th Eurovisioni - Festival Internazionale di Cinema e Televisione, Rome
2003
  • Diagonale Festival - Slovenska Kinoteka – ‘Kino-Integral’, Graz, Austria *
 
  • Convergence - Sustainable Living Festival: Riverglass, Dublin
2001
  • 12th Ljubljana International Film Festival: Heartbeat opens the festival, Ljubljana *
 
  • FIPA - Festival International des Programmes Audiovisuels: Heartbeat, Biarritz, France
 
  • Videoformes Festival International: Heartbeat, Clermond-Ferrand, France
 
  • Artecinema - 6° Festival Internazionale di Film sull’Arte Contemporanea: Origin, Naples *
2000
  • XV Film Video Monitor: Heartbeat opens the Festival, Gorizia, Italy *
 
  • Artecinema - 5° Festival Internazionale di Film sull’Arte Contemporanea: Heartbeat, Naples *
1999
  • Artecinema - 4° Festival Internazionale di Film sull’Arte Contemporanea: Riverglass, Naples *
 
  • FIFA, 17e Festival International du Film sur l’Art: Riverglass, Montreal
1998
  • Mediawave 1998’ Festival: Riverglass, Budapest
 
  • 3rd Split International Festival of New Film: Riverglass(Grand Prix), Split, Croatia *
 
  • 1st Festival of Slovenian Film (Best Art Video Film - Riverglass, Portorož *
1992
  • 11th Annual Santa Fe Film Expo: Ocean Beat, Santa Fe, New Mexico *
1991
  • Festival International du Film Maritime et d'Exploration: Ocean Beat, Toulon, France
 
  • 7th Annual Film Arts Festival: Ocean Beat, San Francisco *
1988
  • 7th Annual Santa Fe Film Expo: Restless, Santa Fe, New Mexico *
 
  • 8th Annual Thomas Edison Black Maria Film and Video Festival, Jersey City, New Jersey
 
  • 26th Ann Arbor Film Festival /Restless/ & US Tour 1988, USA
1987
  • 3rd Annual Film Arts Festival - ‘Live Water’: Restless, Roxie Theatre, San Francisco *
1984
  • Japan’s 4th Experimental Film Festival - ‘Innocent Eyes & Lenses’: Venezia & Vsi Sveti, Tokyo
1983
  • 3rd Annual Thomas Edison Black Maria Film Festival: Anastomosis (Honourable Mention), Jersey City
 
  • San Francisco International Film Festival - ‘Bay Area Filmmakers Showcase’: Anastomosis première, San Francisco *
1981
  • Mill Valley Film Festival - ‘San Francisco Visionaries’: Restless, Mill Valley, California *
1980
  • ‘Filmworks 1980’ Festival - ‘AZ S-8mm Films’, the Kitchen, New York City *

 

Medical Symposia

2000
  • European Society of Cardiology, 50th Anniversary Congress: Heartbeat première, RAI, Amsterdam *
2002
  • Slovenian Heart Foundation - Public Awareness Exhibition: Heartbeat, TR3 Gallery, Ljubljana *
1984
  • ‘Hand Surgery 6’ Symposium: Replantation by Harry J. Buncke, MD & AZ. Also: lecture by Franjo Zdravič, MD: ‘Burns to the Hands and Upper Extremnities’, Louisville, Kentucky, May 6 -10, 1984 *
1982
  • American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons, Microvascular Symposium, Disneyland, California
 
  • The Royal College of Surgeons Annual Meeting, London
1981
  • American Society for Surgery of the Hand Congress: presidential address by Harry J. Buncke, MD and screening of Present Status of Microsurgery in Hand Surgery, Las Vegas *
1981
  • Ralph K. Davies Medical Center, San Francisco *
1980
  • Yugoslav Association of Plastic Surgeons Congress: lecture by Franjo Zdravič, MD, Dubrovnik, Croatia *
1979
  • University Medical Centre, Ljubljana *
1978
  • Texas Institute for Rehabilitation and Research: lecture by Franjo Zdravič, MD, Houston, Texas *
 
  • Vetereans Hospital: lecture by Franjo Zdravič, MD, Houston, Texas*
 
  • WHO - International Society for Burn Injuries Congress: lecture by Franjo Zdravič, MD, Mexico City *

 

Broadcasts & Interviews / selected

2017
  • ikonoTV, November program: 6 Satellite Broadcasts & Streaming of Ocean Cantos I-IV, Berlin, New York, Shanghai
2004
  • TVs ARTE France; 3 Sat; Swr2; Südwest-Fernsehen; Schweizer Fernsehen Drs - ZKM Center for Arts and Media Karlsruhe ‘International Media Art Awards’ video program, including Heartbeat, Europe
2003
  • RAISAT ART: four AZ Programs (10 films) with introduction by AZ, multiple satellite broadcasts, Rome (territory of Italy, Croatia, Switzerland, no. Africa) *
2002
  • RTV SLO: Heartbeat - 3 broadcasts, Slovenia
1999
  • PBS / KCET Public TV, Los Angeles: Riverglass - 2 broadcasts, California & northern Mexico
 
  • ARTE France: Riverglass - 6 terrestrial & satellite broadcasts (1998-2001), Europe, Middle East, no. Africa
 
  • RTV SLO - ‘Studio City’: ‘Portraits of Prešeren Fund Awardees’, Slovenia
 
  • RTV SLO - ‘Osmi dan’ 3.2.1999 - Portrait: ‘Andrej Zdravič - Prešeren Fund Awardee’, Slovenia *
1998
  • DUNA TV: Riverglass - 2 broadcasts, 1998-99, Hungary & Serbia
 
  • RTV SLO: Riverglass - 2 broadcasts, Slovenia
 
  • Radio Slovenia - ‘Night Visit’: AZ interview and sound tracks, Slovenia *
1997
  • KPFA Radio - AZ interview and Riverglass sound track, Berkeley, California *
 
  • RTV SLO - ‘Fathers and Sons’ talk show, with Dr. Franjo Zdravič and AZ, Slovenia *
 
  • Radio Koper - AZ Interview & soundtracks, Koper, Slovenia *
1993
  • KQED Radio - AZ Interview and sounds, San Francisco *
1991
  • ZDF-3SAT: Ocean Beat première Satellite broadcast, Germany & Europe
1990
  • Learning Channel Public TV - The Independents: ‘Distant Lives’, USA
1987
  • RTV SLO - ‘Integrali’: AZ interview and films, Slovenia *
 
  • NBC’s ‘Today’s Show’: announcing Air Trio as a “nature music video” (film excerpts), USA
1984
  • WNED TV Channel 17 Buffalo: ‘The Frontier - Documentary, Animation, Fiction, Experimental Video Art’ series produced by Media Study/Buffalo, USA & Canada broadcasts
 
  • Radio Koper, Neva Zajc show: 2 hr. interview and sounds, Slovenia *
1983
  • Radio Slovenia - Val 202, AZ interview, Slovenia *
1980
  • WBAI Radio - Verna Gillis’ ‘Soundscape’: AZ interview & sounds, New York City *
1979
  • Radio Študent - AZ interview and soundtracks, Slovenia *
 
  • TV Novi Sad - ‘One Author, One Film’ - AZ interview & films, Yugoslavia *

 

Sound Performances

1986
  • Peter Kowald & The Workshop Orchestra - Druga Godba Festival, Križanke, Ljubljana, 1986
1979
  • David Tudor’s ‘Rainforest’, a collaborative electro-acoustical environment - Composers Inside Electronics: John Driscoll, Phil Edelstein, David Tudor, Bill Viola, Andrej Zdravič. Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 4-7 April 1979