On Thursday, 12 March 2026, at 7 p.m., you are warmly invited to the Slovenian Cinematheque for a screening of the feature-length alternative film Kumbum. The film was made over a period of twelve years and is considered the concluding work of the first period of the OM production film section.

The screening will be introduced with a lecture by the film critic Oskar Ban Brejc.

Kumbum was shot on Super 8 film stock and later edited for enlargement onto 16 mm film. “Kumbum” is a Tibetan word denoting a multi-storey complex of Buddhist chapels in Tibet; its literal meaning can be rendered as “one hundred thousand sacred images.” The conceptual design of the film is based on the assumptions and findings of empirical science concerning human perception of visual material. Due to the speed at which individual images alternate on the screen, the viewer encounters a limitation: although the eye theoretically—and in practice—perceives all twenty-four frames per second, the human brain can process only two to three of them. For the purposes of the film, the author of Kumbum developed a complex mathematical structure and, in accordance with it, arranged the visual material into a sequence of (thematically) diverse moving images subjected to rapid montage. The rhythm and dynamics of this montage were dictated by numbers taken from a telephone directory, selected through the use of a magic square of nine numbers. This system served as a decoder for the lengths of 12,000 shots, composed of television footage combined with shots taken from the existing filmography of OM production. Kumbum drives and immerses the viewer in the visual, imposing the next piece of information on the brain even before the previous one has been processed.

The screening is part of the exhibition program of the exhibition Cosmic Collective: OM Production and Its Second Coming.

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