Medved, Anja
No. 1423
"Found Portraits"
Artist: Medved, Anja
Title: Found Portraits
Subtitle: Cross-Border Memory Collection Actions
Duration: 33:18
Year: 2014
Genre: Documentary video
Production: Kinoatelje, Kinokašča

 
SYNOPSIS

In December 2013, the fourth memory collection action entitled Found Portraits was carried out in the premises of the former border crossing between Nova Gorica and Gorizia. Citizens of both cities were invited to choose photos of unknown fellow citizens and talk about their memories of them.


Cross-Border Memory Collection Actions
The purpose of memory-contributed actions is to create an open archive that evolves over time and becomes a kind of gift that we give to the people of both cities for generations to come. Much like a family album, designed by its incompleteness, it is an archive of memory in a constant process of creation and rearticulation. Namely, Nova Gorica (Yugoslavia/Slovenia) and Gorizia (Italy) were separated not only by the boundaries between two countries and social systems but also by the boundaries between two comprehensions of the past. The border crossings that have separated us for years can now become meeting points that reflect the relationship between personal and collective memory.
Actions: Smuggler’s Confessional (2007), Memory Clinic (2009), Album of the City (2011), Memory Clinic Ljubljana (2012), Found Portraits (2013), Images of Oblivion (2014), Sewn Memories (2015), Portraits of Buildings (2015) and The Solver of Memory (2018). (Source: Anja Medved)


 



 
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Anja Medved - Images of Oblivion (55:45)
Production: Kinoatelje, 2016
Documentary video from the memory collection campaign in Ljubljana in 2014. The documentary project Images of Oblivion - Personal History of the City of Ljubljana is a collection of personal memories revived by elderly citizens of Ljubljana when looking a...
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Anja Medved - Portraits of Buildings (29:24)
Production: Zavod Kinokašča, 2015
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Anja Medved - Sewn Memories (43:18)
Production: Kinoatelje, Kinokašča, 2015
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Anja Medved - The Gathering – The Secret Side of Things We Share (01:05:00)
Production: Kinoatelje; Zavod Kinoatelje, Zavod Kinokašča, 2013
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Anja Medved - Album of the City (27:43)
Production: Kinoatelje, Kinokašča, 2012
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Anja Medved - Memory Clinic LjubljanaAnja Medved - Memory Clinic LjubljanaAnja Medved - Memory Clinic Ljubljana
Anja Medved - Memory Clinic Ljubljana (26:32)
Production: Kinoatelje, Zavod Divja misel in MGML, 2012
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Anja Medved - Spovednica tihotapcev. Pogledi skozi železno zaveso (21:51)
Production: Kinoatelje, 2010
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Anja Medved - Ordinacija spomina (13:00)
Production: Kinoatelje, 2010
10. decembra 2009 je bila v hišici nekdanjega mejnega prehoda med Novo Gorico in Gorico organizirana druga spominodajalska akcija iz serije Čezmejne akcije zbiranja spomina: Ordinacija spomina / Corsia dei ricordi. Občani obeh mest so bili povabl...
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Production: Kinoatelje, 2010
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