Nataša Skušek, Mladen Stropnik - Free Time (00:06:42)
Production: 2007
Video work discusses time management in a modern family life. The authors document their holiday with their children and through personal experience explore the overload and expectations imposed upon an individual about themselves by modern society.
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Tomaž Tomažin - Mr. Thornhill (0:02:07)
Production: 2005
Mr.Thornhill is the main character in the Alfred Hitchcock movie North by Northwest. In his video the artist has replaced the actor Cary Grant's head with my own and appear in the important sequence where he is being chased by a crop duster. The viewer is frightened for the character and feels himself to be both the artist and the character at the same time.
Production: 2005
Mr.Thornhill is the main character in the Alfred Hitchcock movie North by Northwest. In his video the artist has replaced the actor Cary Grant's head with my own and appear in the important sequence where he is being chased by a crop duster. The viewer is frightened for the character and feels himself to be both the artist and the character at the same time.
Zoran Srdić Janežič - Zgodba o tački (0:31:50)
Production: Kulturno umetniško društvo Inštitut za likovne in multimedijske raziskave Modri krog Kranj, 2005
Video is an animation of a same-name story by Matej Lavrenčič. The video connects animations by four authors.
Production: Kulturno umetniško društvo Inštitut za likovne in multimedijske raziskave Modri krog Kranj, 2005
Video is an animation of a same-name story by Matej Lavrenčič. The video connects animations by four authors.
Marko A. Kovačič - American Dream (00:06:43)
Production: Brut film, 1986
An ambivalent deconstruction of fantasies about the promised land and faith in art, which is carried out through the stereotypical game of infinite hide-and-seek. It is a dialectic confrontation of the certain heroics of the regime that operated by prohibitions and its own detachment from the people, with the proclamation of a rapprochement with Western systems of liberal capitalism. (Source: DIVA)
Production: Brut film, 1986
An ambivalent deconstruction of fantasies about the promised land and faith in art, which is carried out through the stereotypical game of infinite hide-and-seek. It is a dialectic confrontation of the certain heroics of the regime that operated by prohibitions and its own detachment from the people, with the proclamation of a rapprochement with Western systems of liberal capitalism. (Source: DIVA)
Nataša Prosenc Stearns - Waiting Room (0:10:20)
Production: Kanalya Pictures, 2005
Short film shows an atmosphere created amongst coincidental patients waiting to see their doctor on a Christmas Eve. Ordinary patients have to wait while the more important partners, celebrities and doctor's acquaintances enter cutting the line. Dissatisfaction in the waiting room heightens. The patients start talking about health, they share their defects, illnesses and psychological conditions, complain about the doctor and think about starting to see a different one. After a long wait the door of th...
Production: Kanalya Pictures, 2005
Short film shows an atmosphere created amongst coincidental patients waiting to see their doctor on a Christmas Eve. Ordinary patients have to wait while the more important partners, celebrities and doctor's acquaintances enter cutting the line. Dissatisfaction in the waiting room heightens. The patients start talking about health, they share their defects, illnesses and psychological conditions, complain about the doctor and think about starting to see a different one. After a long wait the door of th...
Mladen Stropnik - Momriding (0:04:23)
Subtitle: ...Not Knowing a Word in English
Production: 2002
The artist has filmed his mother who reads to him over the phone the rejection letter from the British embassy to which the artist has applied for scholarship: “I applied for the scholarship. The British embassy i.e. their Department of Culture has rejected my application. I received the mail to my old address in Velenje. Mom read the letter to me over the phone. Mom doesn’t speak i.e. has the knowledge of foreign languages (perhaps a little German). I made the subtitles after the sound of the read lett...
Subtitle: ...Not Knowing a Word in English
Production: 2002
The artist has filmed his mother who reads to him over the phone the rejection letter from the British embassy to which the artist has applied for scholarship: “I applied for the scholarship. The British embassy i.e. their Department of Culture has rejected my application. I received the mail to my old address in Velenje. Mom read the letter to me over the phone. Mom doesn’t speak i.e. has the knowledge of foreign languages (perhaps a little German). I made the subtitles after the sound of the read lett...
Nika Oblak & Primož Novak - Shund (0:02:23)
Production: 2008
Shund is a frame by frame visually reconstructed original trailer of the movie Pulp Fiction. The entire trailer was reconstructed in the studio, using the technique of chroma key and simple props, like toy cars and guns, cardboard, paper… Nika Oblak & Primož Novak acted all parts. For the backgrounds of scenes they constructed photo collages, composed from photos mostly found on the internet. In this way Oblak & Novak subject themselves to the influence of mass media and materialize a common fascination...
Production: 2008
Shund is a frame by frame visually reconstructed original trailer of the movie Pulp Fiction. The entire trailer was reconstructed in the studio, using the technique of chroma key and simple props, like toy cars and guns, cardboard, paper… Nika Oblak & Primož Novak acted all parts. For the backgrounds of scenes they constructed photo collages, composed from photos mostly found on the internet. In this way Oblak & Novak subject themselves to the influence of mass media and materialize a common fascination...
Ana Čigon, Cristiana Arena - Real Presence (0:01:05)
Production: Ana Čigon, Cristiana Arena, 2008
This performative fiction art video places human figures in architectural niches, which freeze in different positions, eventually forming biblical iconographic motives (pieta, oranta …). Video is composed out of short and fast shots.
Production: Ana Čigon, Cristiana Arena, 2008
This performative fiction art video places human figures in architectural niches, which freeze in different positions, eventually forming biblical iconographic motives (pieta, oranta …). Video is composed out of short and fast shots.
Kolja Saksida - Eksperimentalec (00:09:31)
Production: ZVVIKS Production, 1999
Shot in 8 mm, the film takes inspiration from the genre of action film. In particular it ironically reconstructs the dynamics of a pursuit, the suspense, and the sudden cuts of the martial art film of the '70s. With the same purpose it uses a grained image and black corners around the scene. The film tells about a chance encounter between two expert jugglers and a pyromaniac that takes place around a semi-destroyed factory in Jesenice area. In this unusual environment the jugglers become hostages until...
Production: ZVVIKS Production, 1999
Shot in 8 mm, the film takes inspiration from the genre of action film. In particular it ironically reconstructs the dynamics of a pursuit, the suspense, and the sudden cuts of the martial art film of the '70s. With the same purpose it uses a grained image and black corners around the scene. The film tells about a chance encounter between two expert jugglers and a pyromaniac that takes place around a semi-destroyed factory in Jesenice area. In this unusual environment the jugglers become hostages until...
Nataša Prosenc Stearns - Our Twenty Minutes (00:07:39)
Production: 2013
Kratki film o paru, ki si skuša med službo vzeti 20 minut za zasebnost. V njuno zgodbo prileti nepovabljena trgovska potnica, ki ju z neomajnim prepričevanjem poskuša opehariti. Zgodba se odvija s frontalnimi statičnimi kadri v notranjščini hiše.
Production: 2013
Kratki film o paru, ki si skuša med službo vzeti 20 minut za zasebnost. V njuno zgodbo prileti nepovabljena trgovska potnica, ki ju z neomajnim prepričevanjem poskuša opehariti. Zgodba se odvija s frontalnimi statičnimi kadri v notranjščini hiše.