Duba Sambolec - Lights & Pipes (05:24)
Subtitle: NoHomeVideos©
Production: Duba Sambolec, 2000
The authors put on the camera and film lights and pipes with one of them filming and the other holding her. The situation is entertaining for both of them, as we hear them laughing. The first one dictates hot the other should hold her in order for her to move up and film the lights and pipes. Movement of the hand held camera is impulsive, fast and improvised.
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Duba Sambolec - Airport 2 (31:46)
Subtitle: NoHomeVideos©
Production: Duba Sambolec, 2000
Two-channel video perfomance consists of two videos, Airport 1 and Airport 2, which are screened side by side. Video performance captures a modestly furnished space inside which performers move. Shots are static and unedited. One after another or polyphonically performers repeat the conjugation of the sentence "I am the centre". They use different technical accessories as for example microphone or megaphone. The happening is drily and dull, it has no dramaturgy and it is based on repetition. Author uses th...
Subtitle: NoHomeVideos©
Production: Duba Sambolec, 2000
Two-channel video perfomance consists of two videos, Airport 1 and Airport 2, which are screened side by side. Video performance captures a modestly furnished space inside which performers move. Shots are static and unedited. One after another or polyphonically performers repeat the conjugation of the sentence "I am the centre". They use different technical accessories as for example microphone or megaphone. The happening is drily and dull, it has no dramaturgy and it is based on repetition. Author uses th...
Duba Sambolec - I Don't Remember (02:00:31)
Subtitle: NoHomeVideos©
Production: Duba Sambolec, 1999/2000
In a video performance lasting for 120 minutes the author with blinded eyes and heavy luggage staggers in front of a big projection following a rail. She is guided by a strict, ordering and violet male voice, which wants to make her get out of the screen, of the visual field and metaphorically out of public life. The movement on the tracks occasionally turns, the train goes backwards in its own path. The movement of the train is edited, usually with the transition from the darkness. NoHomeVideos© are 14...
Subtitle: NoHomeVideos©
Production: Duba Sambolec, 1999/2000
In a video performance lasting for 120 minutes the author with blinded eyes and heavy luggage staggers in front of a big projection following a rail. She is guided by a strict, ordering and violet male voice, which wants to make her get out of the screen, of the visual field and metaphorically out of public life. The movement on the tracks occasionally turns, the train goes backwards in its own path. The movement of the train is edited, usually with the transition from the darkness. NoHomeVideos© are 14...
Duba Sambolec - I Do Remember (22:12)
Subtitle: NoHomeVideos©
Production: Duba Sambolec, 2000
Video performance starts with women descending a wooden staircase into a factory space full of metal constructions. Women are wrapped in long colourful clothes. They walk on top of a metal construction. They all carefully choose their steps, some of them sit down. Close-ups of colourful clothes and separate parts of women's bodies and skin. Camera circles in the space, follows women's movement, occasionally rattling sounds are heard. The set changes to the scene on a factory balcony. Women lean over the fen...
Subtitle: NoHomeVideos©
Production: Duba Sambolec, 2000
Video performance starts with women descending a wooden staircase into a factory space full of metal constructions. Women are wrapped in long colourful clothes. They walk on top of a metal construction. They all carefully choose their steps, some of them sit down. Close-ups of colourful clothes and separate parts of women's bodies and skin. Camera circles in the space, follows women's movement, occasionally rattling sounds are heard. The set changes to the scene on a factory balcony. Women lean over the fen...
Duba Sambolec - Questioning, Answering (58:25)
Subtitle: NoHomeVideos©
Production: Duba Sambolec, 1999
In the video we witness an interrogation of a woman with a blind over her eyes. Strict and somewhat violet interrogation is executed by the second female character. Eventually it becomes clear, that shots of both people were merged in postproduction. The viewer is therefore manipulated as is the video, and at the same time he/she takes on the role of an accomplice, as he/she accepts the game of the interrogator. NoHomeVideos© are 14 video performances, first presented at the International Festival of Co...
Subtitle: NoHomeVideos©
Production: Duba Sambolec, 1999
In the video we witness an interrogation of a woman with a blind over her eyes. Strict and somewhat violet interrogation is executed by the second female character. Eventually it becomes clear, that shots of both people were merged in postproduction. The viewer is therefore manipulated as is the video, and at the same time he/she takes on the role of an accomplice, as he/she accepts the game of the interrogator. NoHomeVideos© are 14 video performances, first presented at the International Festival of Co...
Duba Sambolec - Collectors #2 (15:15)
Production: Duba Sambolec, 2001/2002
Video work is a research in the field of personal memories, their collected fragments, of the articulation of holes in the memory and missing evidence. The whispering of the author follows the whole line of recordings in a nondramatic, mystical and calming manner and works as a narration. Shots transition from focused to blurry in a slow rhythm. The video is limited with a round frame. In a series of works Collectors the author deals with an individual trapped in a subordinate position and with personal mem...
Production: Duba Sambolec, 2001/2002
Video work is a research in the field of personal memories, their collected fragments, of the articulation of holes in the memory and missing evidence. The whispering of the author follows the whole line of recordings in a nondramatic, mystical and calming manner and works as a narration. Shots transition from focused to blurry in a slow rhythm. The video is limited with a round frame. In a series of works Collectors the author deals with an individual trapped in a subordinate position and with personal mem...
Duba Sambolec - Collectors #3 (30:55)
Subtitle: *Settings*
Production: Duba Sambolec, 2002
Video deals with the dynamics in a personal service sector through a series of scenes displaying body care in a satirical manner. Scenes are set in doubles. The woman offering the service is preparing the cosmetic specimens and in the next scene she uses them to treat her client. Scenes of preparations are accompanied with whistling dictating an optimistic working atmosphere. Video Collectors #3 is a reflection of the author about a personal profile, some sort of auto portrait placing the viewer into Other'...
Subtitle: *Settings*
Production: Duba Sambolec, 2002
Video deals with the dynamics in a personal service sector through a series of scenes displaying body care in a satirical manner. Scenes are set in doubles. The woman offering the service is preparing the cosmetic specimens and in the next scene she uses them to treat her client. Scenes of preparations are accompanied with whistling dictating an optimistic working atmosphere. Video Collectors #3 is a reflection of the author about a personal profile, some sort of auto portrait placing the viewer into Other'...
Duba Sambolec - Shadowless A (21:06)
Subtitle: NoHomeVideos©
Production: Duba Sambolec, 2000
Two-channel video perfomance consists of two videos, Shadowless A and Shadowless B, which are screened side by side. The left video (Shadowless A) shows the figure in the room, and the right (Shadowless B) focuses on the face. Both videos share the same sound. The performance is set in an empty space in which the blindfolded author tries to find her way around. A voice from the background is unintelligibly guiding her, at times a sound of repeating punches is heard. The author tries to use a binocular, whic...
Subtitle: NoHomeVideos©
Production: Duba Sambolec, 2000
Two-channel video perfomance consists of two videos, Shadowless A and Shadowless B, which are screened side by side. The left video (Shadowless A) shows the figure in the room, and the right (Shadowless B) focuses on the face. Both videos share the same sound. The performance is set in an empty space in which the blindfolded author tries to find her way around. A voice from the background is unintelligibly guiding her, at times a sound of repeating punches is heard. The author tries to use a binocular, whic...
Duba Sambolec - Shadowless B (21:08)
Subtitle: NoHomeVideos©
Production: Duba Sambolec, 2000
Two-channel video perfomance consists of two videos, Shadowless A and Shadowless B, which are screened side by side. The left video (Shadowless A) shows the figure in the room, and the right (Shadowless B) focuses on the face. Both videos share the same sound. The performance is set in an empty space in which the blindfolded author tries to find her way around. A voice from the background is unintelligibly guiding her, at times a sound of repeating punches is heard. The author tries to use a binocular, whic...
Subtitle: NoHomeVideos©
Production: Duba Sambolec, 2000
Two-channel video perfomance consists of two videos, Shadowless A and Shadowless B, which are screened side by side. The left video (Shadowless A) shows the figure in the room, and the right (Shadowless B) focuses on the face. Both videos share the same sound. The performance is set in an empty space in which the blindfolded author tries to find her way around. A voice from the background is unintelligibly guiding her, at times a sound of repeating punches is heard. The author tries to use a binocular, whic...
Duba Sambolec - Code I (04:34)
Subtitle: NoHomeVideos©
Production: Duba Sambolec, 2000
Video is based on a cliché automatized everyday fraises, which are told to each other by the performers. Unfocused close-up stays unchanged and additionally stresses unclearness and dullness of the conversation. NoHomeVideos© are 14 video performances, first presented at the International Festival of Contemporary Arts – City of Women in Ljubljana (2000), in which the author is dealing with the experience of being manipulated by the agents of power and control. Performances stress the...
Subtitle: NoHomeVideos©
Production: Duba Sambolec, 2000
Video is based on a cliché automatized everyday fraises, which are told to each other by the performers. Unfocused close-up stays unchanged and additionally stresses unclearness and dullness of the conversation. NoHomeVideos© are 14 video performances, first presented at the International Festival of Contemporary Arts – City of Women in Ljubljana (2000), in which the author is dealing with the experience of being manipulated by the agents of power and control. Performances stress the...
Duba Sambolec - Code II (01:32)
Subtitle: NoHomeVideos©
Production: Duba Sambolec, 2000
Video captures the author in a medium close-up, while she repeats the sentence "repeat after me" in calm authoritative voice. The absurd coming from the repeating demand to repeat stresses the fact of how often and repeating this demand is in individual's everyday life. NoHomeVideos© are 14 video performances, first presented at the International Festival of Contemporary Arts – City of Women in Ljubljana (2000), in which the author is dealing with the experience of being manipulated by the...
Subtitle: NoHomeVideos©
Production: Duba Sambolec, 2000
Video captures the author in a medium close-up, while she repeats the sentence "repeat after me" in calm authoritative voice. The absurd coming from the repeating demand to repeat stresses the fact of how often and repeating this demand is in individual's everyday life. NoHomeVideos© are 14 video performances, first presented at the International Festival of Contemporary Arts – City of Women in Ljubljana (2000), in which the author is dealing with the experience of being manipulated by the...
Duba Sambolec - Code III (03:49)
Subtitle: NoHomeVideos©
Production: Duba Sambolec, 2000
Video is composed of one long static extreme close-up of the author, while she repeats a completely trivial, common and consequently devalued request. Static and unfocused shot stresses the dullness of the sentence. NoHomeVideos© are 14 video performances, first presented at the International Festival of Contemporary Arts – City of Women in Ljubljana (2000), in which the author is dealing with the experience of being manipulated by the agents of power and control. Performances stress the po...
Subtitle: NoHomeVideos©
Production: Duba Sambolec, 2000
Video is composed of one long static extreme close-up of the author, while she repeats a completely trivial, common and consequently devalued request. Static and unfocused shot stresses the dullness of the sentence. NoHomeVideos© are 14 video performances, first presented at the International Festival of Contemporary Arts – City of Women in Ljubljana (2000), in which the author is dealing with the experience of being manipulated by the agents of power and control. Performances stress the po...
Duba Sambolec - Code IV (18:31)
Subtitle: NoHomeVideos©
Production: Duba Sambolec, 2000
Video is based on a cliché automatized everyday fraises, which are told to each other by the performers. Unfocused close-up stays unchanged and additionally stresses unclearness and dullness of the conversation. NoHomeVideos© are 14 video performances, first presented at the International Festival of Contemporary Arts – City of Women in Ljubljana (2000), in which the author is dealing with the experience of being manipulated by the agents of power and control. Performances stress the...
Subtitle: NoHomeVideos©
Production: Duba Sambolec, 2000
Video is based on a cliché automatized everyday fraises, which are told to each other by the performers. Unfocused close-up stays unchanged and additionally stresses unclearness and dullness of the conversation. NoHomeVideos© are 14 video performances, first presented at the International Festival of Contemporary Arts – City of Women in Ljubljana (2000), in which the author is dealing with the experience of being manipulated by the agents of power and control. Performances stress the...
Duba Sambolec - Conversion (24:53)
Subtitle: NoHomeVideos©
Production: Duba Sambolec, 2000
Video performance is set inside an empty space in which the author moves with a blind over her eyes and a gun in her hands. She repeats a sentence "I don't exist" and occasionally shoots her gun. The space goes dark in the middle of the video. Over the video a sign "I always forget!." appears twice. NoHomeVideos© are 14 video performances, first presented at the International Festival of Contemporary Arts – City of Women in Ljubljana (2000), in which the author is dealing with the experienc...
Subtitle: NoHomeVideos©
Production: Duba Sambolec, 2000
Video performance is set inside an empty space in which the author moves with a blind over her eyes and a gun in her hands. She repeats a sentence "I don't exist" and occasionally shoots her gun. The space goes dark in the middle of the video. Over the video a sign "I always forget!." appears twice. NoHomeVideos© are 14 video performances, first presented at the International Festival of Contemporary Arts – City of Women in Ljubljana (2000), in which the author is dealing with the experienc...
Duba Sambolec - Airport Revisited (01:19)
Production: Duba Sambolec, 2004
Video deals with conjugation of a sentence "I am the center" in a form of animated red text circling over the screen. The animation warns us that repeating paroles are a productive tool for political indoctrination, profit marketing and the seeming satisfaction of the needs and wants created by the market. The video has no sound.NoHomeVideos© video performances, altogether created 14 by the author, are dealing with the experience of being manipulated by the agents of power and control. Performances str...
Production: Duba Sambolec, 2004
Video deals with conjugation of a sentence "I am the center" in a form of animated red text circling over the screen. The animation warns us that repeating paroles are a productive tool for political indoctrination, profit marketing and the seeming satisfaction of the needs and wants created by the market. The video has no sound.NoHomeVideos© video performances, altogether created 14 by the author, are dealing with the experience of being manipulated by the agents of power and control. Performances str...
Duba Sambolec - Collectors #4 (12:02)
Subtitle: *Revisited*
Production: Duba Sambolec, 2003/2005
Paralelni sliki sta postavljeni na ozadje vojaškega vzorca. Na vsaki od projekcij je ena izmed performerk. Nataša Skušek skozi celoten video opravlja naporne vaje za telesno moč. Oblečena je v črno opravo, ki spominja na zaščitno obleko ameriških nogometašev. Enako obleko si Duba Sambolec počasi nadane in razlaga posamezne kose oprave, na primer: »Pas za zaščito genitalij«. Med oblačenjem sedi, kadi, pije in se pogovarja z nevidno osebo o z...
Subtitle: *Revisited*
Production: Duba Sambolec, 2003/2005
Paralelni sliki sta postavljeni na ozadje vojaškega vzorca. Na vsaki od projekcij je ena izmed performerk. Nataša Skušek skozi celoten video opravlja naporne vaje za telesno moč. Oblečena je v črno opravo, ki spominja na zaščitno obleko ameriških nogometašev. Enako obleko si Duba Sambolec počasi nadane in razlaga posamezne kose oprave, na primer: »Pas za zaščito genitalij«. Med oblačenjem sedi, kadi, pije in se pogovarja z nevidno osebo o z...
Zmago Lenardič, Jasna Hribernik - NewMoscowYork (00:25:20)
Production: White Balance, 2004
The video is a humoristic comparison of two metropolises – New York and Moscow, where the life in the age of globalization is close to identical. Authors juxtapose similar scenes on two different channels. Each channel shows an urban silhouette with skyscrapers, triumphal arches and monuments of one of both cities. Scenes are followed by a lively music and a narration by a voice speaking English with a Russian accent reading highly ironical quotations from Little golden America, a work by humorists Il...
Production: White Balance, 2004
The video is a humoristic comparison of two metropolises – New York and Moscow, where the life in the age of globalization is close to identical. Authors juxtapose similar scenes on two different channels. Each channel shows an urban silhouette with skyscrapers, triumphal arches and monuments of one of both cities. Scenes are followed by a lively music and a narration by a voice speaking English with a Russian accent reading highly ironical quotations from Little golden America, a work by humorists Il...
Ema Kugler - Taiga (00:08:22)
Production: Forum Ljubljana & VPK, 1996
Video Taiga is made after eponymous performance carried out at the international festival of contemporary arts City of women in October 1995 in Ljubljana. The viewer enters a dark atmosphere, dictated by dramatic vocal-electronic music, threatening anthropomorphic and wax zoomorphic figures and the movement of the camera. When the author establishes the landscape, she inserts two wrestlers and a drowning woman into it, additionally increasing the suspense. As the dramaturgy reaches its peak, the set scene f...
Production: Forum Ljubljana & VPK, 1996
Video Taiga is made after eponymous performance carried out at the international festival of contemporary arts City of women in October 1995 in Ljubljana. The viewer enters a dark atmosphere, dictated by dramatic vocal-electronic music, threatening anthropomorphic and wax zoomorphic figures and the movement of the camera. When the author establishes the landscape, she inserts two wrestlers and a drowning woman into it, additionally increasing the suspense. As the dramaturgy reaches its peak, the set scene f...
Ema Kugler - Phantom (87:45)
Production: Zavod ZANK / VPK, Cankarjev dom, RTV Slovenija, 2003
»The Phantom« is a film about death that does not ask, »Who am I?«, but »Have I ever really been there ... in my life? Have I ever really lived? Wasn’t everything just an illusion, an illusion of a false existence? Is it even possible to die? How to escape from this chain of unbearable repetitions; to be a soul and to be flesh over and over again! Is it even possible to see another, such as he is? Isn't this other just an illusion as well, our mental construct we need it...
Production: Zavod ZANK / VPK, Cankarjev dom, RTV Slovenija, 2003
»The Phantom« is a film about death that does not ask, »Who am I?«, but »Have I ever really been there ... in my life? Have I ever really lived? Wasn’t everything just an illusion, an illusion of a false existence? Is it even possible to die? How to escape from this chain of unbearable repetitions; to be a soul and to be flesh over and over again! Is it even possible to see another, such as he is? Isn't this other just an illusion as well, our mental construct we need it...
Vesna Bukovec - Moje sanje, lepo stanovanje / The Happiest Apartment in the World (00:04:08)
Production: V.B., 2010
A dream of a woman is shown in long static shots, which are fast-forwarded and thus emphasize the repetitive movements of browsing through home decorating magazines. The fast forwarded shots don't have a humorous effect but a rather neurotic one. The image is clear and clean. Immaculateness is even more stressed by the white outfit and furniture. Camera doesn't capture the woman's head making her body look like only a torso. Music by Alexi Murdoch titled Home is light and easy, but slowly a sublime massage...
Production: V.B., 2010
A dream of a woman is shown in long static shots, which are fast-forwarded and thus emphasize the repetitive movements of browsing through home decorating magazines. The fast forwarded shots don't have a humorous effect but a rather neurotic one. The image is clear and clean. Immaculateness is even more stressed by the white outfit and furniture. Camera doesn't capture the woman's head making her body look like only a torso. Music by Alexi Murdoch titled Home is light and easy, but slowly a sublime massage...
