The film was shot on 8mm black and white film. It was created at a film school with Mirjana Borčić in Pionirska dom in Ljubljana while Sambolec studied at Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana, and before her studying of sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana.
The amateur film, as the artist calls it, consists of short scenes of close-ups of her hands against a dark background with vertical lines. According to the artist, it is an animated film with a living object. The starting idea of the film was to present the hands as an autonomous living object and to explore through animation in various movements what they can do in a way as if they were separated from the body. This objectness is best represented by the very last scene in the film. The movie has no sound. (Source: DIVA Station)
Production: SCCA-Ljubljana, Galerija Photon, 2022
Video documentation of the Video evening with DIVA Station: Duba Sambolec event at the Photon Gallery on May 4, 2022. Vesna Bukovec, expert associate of DIVA Station, talked with the artist about her relationship to video and performance in the conte...
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 satisf...
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 zašč...
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...
Production: Duba Sambolec, 2001/2013
Umetnica je idejo za video dobila v 90-tih, ko je na letališču na Norveškem opazila povečano število vojaškega osebja, ki je bilo namenjeno na vojna območja na Balkanu. Pozornost so ji vzbudile vojakinje in sprožile razmi&s...
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 calmin...
Production: Duba Sambolec, 2001
Video is a performance carried out by one of the artists in front of and the other behind the camera. Pernilla Edholm guides Duba Sambolec and consequentially the viewer around an empty space and together they explore it in an ironic manner. Edholm establ...
Production: Duba Sambolec, 2000
Video performance documents the procedure of planting. Static camera records a scene in the middle of the space, where there is a pile of dirt with eight flower pots and postcards laying around. The author starts to fill in the pots with dirt, then she ta...
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 polypho...
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...
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 polypho...
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...
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 s...
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 s...
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 per...
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...
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 perfor...
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 per...
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 vi...
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,...
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...
Production: Duba Sambolec, 1996
Video documentation of Duba Sambolec's exhibitions and installations from the period between 1988 and 1996:- Exhibition Unpleasure in Space, Moderna galerija, Ljubljana, 1988/1989- Exhibition of drawings, Equrna Gallery, Ljubljana, 1988/1989- Installation&n...