Ivan Lotrič

A Slovenian documentary film.

Combining animation, a feature-length documentary and interactive comic art, the Reinventing the Wheel cross-media documentary project tells the story of the biggest historical phenomenon in Slovenia – the oldest wooden wheel in the world, which was discovered in the Ljubljana marshes in 2003. The Animation Bobri voz uses legendary characters from Janez Jalen's novel Bobri to take us to the Stone Age. Then, a feature documentary film Reinventing the Wheel gives us an insight into the phenomenon of the wheel. With the comic strip Bobri voz and its smart phone app, we come full circle, back into the animation.

A young, ambitious conductor travels to a small Slovenian town at the mayor’s invitation, where he is meant to lead a choir and promote local culture both at home and abroad. It soon becomes clear that things are not as he expected. Local disputes draw him into their web. Professionalism clashes with amateurism, art with hobbyism, love with envy.