-What and who has inspired you the most in your artistic career?

Throughout my artistic career I was inspired by many people and things, but the most important thing for the start of my film career was the first Slovenian feature-length animated film “Socializacija bika?”, which was finished in 1998. Next year I finished my first animated film “Neptune – the Secret Planet” as 11-years old boy an dedicated it to the authors of the aforementioned film Milan Erič and Zvonko Čoh. Another important thing for the success of my career is that I had an access to my father’s studio, where I observed his passion for drawing illustrations, comic strips and paper-drawn animations and so I learned a lot. I also had access to watch the best animated films in the world and I watched every animated film that I got a chance watching in the analog era of television 30 years ago when the quality of their program was much better.

-Every true artist is also a revolutionary against power. Do you think there is still room today to express one’s revolution through art?

Most of so called “artists” in my country get loud and rebel only if one particular person gets into the position of power. As soon as anyone else gets into the position of power, they all get quiet. The government, which leads our country at this point in time is the worst in the history of Slovenia and I am going to explain why. English translation of the main governmental party’s name is “Freedom”. The truth is that true artists in our country don’t have freedom to express ourselves trough art anymore. My latest film “The Story of Marjan the Bunny” got censored by Slovenian national television (Radiotelevizija Slovenija), which is owned by our government. So the freedom here is fake, most of revolutions here are also fake ones and I also see most of the loudest artistic colleagues here as fake ones as well. If you want to see true artistic rebels today, you need to take a look at people who do that in their free time. Most of my artistic works were made in my free time, only a few ones got funds as I am not willing to skew my artistic expression because of some “quasy-experts”, who reject my work for political reasons.

-We live in a world where, unfortunately, war still exists. Do you believe that if there were more dissemination of art through the media and social networks, the world would be a more peaceful place?

Yes, more dissemination of art through the media and social networks could help artists receive deserved recognition and because of that the world would be more peacful place. Would Adolf Hitler need to cause the World War II, if he would be recognised as a painter?

-Are you working on a new project? If so, can you give us a sneak peek?

I made the script for my new short animated film project “Transgender Euphoria” almost a year ago, but the funding got blocked by main Slovenian agencies that fund films in my country, as they prefer to fund more infantile works. And so I am trying to get my project funded by ordinary people online. You can have a sneak peek at my crowdfunding campaign for my next film right here: https://igg.me/at/transgendereuphoria/x/37978528#/