Nika Oblak & Primož Novak - We Did This and That (0:01:27)
Subtitle: We Balanced 14 Spoons on our Faces and Ears for This Video
Production: 2007
We Did This and That is a series of 43 photographs and 13 videos, which show Nika Oblak & Primož Novak in reconstructing Guinness World Records. They chose absurd records, which are based on uncommon ideas. It is a strategy of gaining attention with spectacular and entertaining stunts, which can serve as an analogue to obsession with success and fame in contemporary society influenced by the mass media. We Did This and That is a reflection on global capitalism and society, which produces and possesses an e...
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Nika Oblak & Primož Novak - We Did This and That (0:00:39)
Subtitle: We Drank a Large Beer in 3 sec While Standing on Our Heads for This Video
Production: 2007
We Did This and That is a series of 43 photographs and 13 videos, which show Nika Oblak & Primož Novak in reconstructing Guinness World Records. They chose absurd records, which are based on uncommon ideas. It is a strategy of gaining attention with spectacular and entertaining stunts, which can serve as an analogue to obsession with success and fame in contemporary society influenced by the mass media. We Did This and That is a reflection on global capitalism and society, which produces and possesses an e...
Subtitle: We Drank a Large Beer in 3 sec While Standing on Our Heads for This Video
Production: 2007
We Did This and That is a series of 43 photographs and 13 videos, which show Nika Oblak & Primož Novak in reconstructing Guinness World Records. They chose absurd records, which are based on uncommon ideas. It is a strategy of gaining attention with spectacular and entertaining stunts, which can serve as an analogue to obsession with success and fame in contemporary society influenced by the mass media. We Did This and That is a reflection on global capitalism and society, which produces and possesses an e...
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...
Nika Oblak & Primož Novak - Cab Driver (0:02:59)
Production: 2008
Cab Driver is a frame by frame visually reconstructed original trailer of the movie Taxi Driver. 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 fascinat...
Production: 2008
Cab Driver is a frame by frame visually reconstructed original trailer of the movie Taxi Driver. 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 fascinat...
Nika Oblak & Primož Novak - Going South (0:31:15)
Production: Sharjah Biennial 9, 2009
Going South is a fictional documentary based on an actual Guinness World Record. It presents stages of a fake, fabricated story about how Nika Oblak & Primož Novak achieve a world record by pushing wheelbarrows from Ljubljana to Sharjah for 14.500 km in 3 years and 12 days. The fictional documentary is a continuum of Oblak & Novak's exploration of media and capital driven society, exposing the media spectacle, and obsession with success and fame. It addresses the issues of global warming and environme...
Production: Sharjah Biennial 9, 2009
Going South is a fictional documentary based on an actual Guinness World Record. It presents stages of a fake, fabricated story about how Nika Oblak & Primož Novak achieve a world record by pushing wheelbarrows from Ljubljana to Sharjah for 14.500 km in 3 years and 12 days. The fictional documentary is a continuum of Oblak & Novak's exploration of media and capital driven society, exposing the media spectacle, and obsession with success and fame. It addresses the issues of global warming and environme...
Nika Oblak & Primož Novak - Recommended by Curators Worldwide (0:08:26)
Production: European Commission Culture Programme for EMARE 2009, 2009
A 3 by 5 meters advertising billboard promoting Nika Oblak & Primož Novak is placed deep in the woods in north Wales. The billboard is placed in a spot where it can hardly be seen, like a tree falling in a forest with no one around to hear it fall. Placed in a surrounding where it is likely not to be seen by anyone evokes questions to its purpose of being there. Additionally, use of an appropriated advertising line 'Nika Oblak & Primož Novak - recommended by curators worldwide’ is Oblak & Novak'...
Production: European Commission Culture Programme for EMARE 2009, 2009
A 3 by 5 meters advertising billboard promoting Nika Oblak & Primož Novak is placed deep in the woods in north Wales. The billboard is placed in a spot where it can hardly be seen, like a tree falling in a forest with no one around to hear it fall. Placed in a surrounding where it is likely not to be seen by anyone evokes questions to its purpose of being there. Additionally, use of an appropriated advertising line 'Nika Oblak & Primož Novak - recommended by curators worldwide’ is Oblak & Novak'...
Ana Čigon, Brina Torkar - Ulikses / Ulysses (0:24:00)
Production: Ana Čigon, Brina Torkar, 2005
Ulysses is a visual documentary, a video film about Dublin, where the authors went for a student exchange. The video paints different sides of this city and Ireland. It is composed from different parts each dealing with different aspects of Dublin following the chapters of Lonely planet tour guides. The whole of this alternative, personal guide consists of shorts scenes, following each other in different intervals and building a visual story.
Production: Ana Čigon, Brina Torkar, 2005
Ulysses is a visual documentary, a video film about Dublin, where the authors went for a student exchange. The video paints different sides of this city and Ireland. It is composed from different parts each dealing with different aspects of Dublin following the chapters of Lonely planet tour guides. The whole of this alternative, personal guide consists of shorts scenes, following each other in different intervals and building a visual story.
Ana Čigon - Brezčasje / Timelessness (0:04:03)
Subtitle: (poklon gozdu) / (compliment to the forest)
Production: Plesni studio Intakt, 2008
Dance video presents a dance show in a completely authorial way adding segments to the mere documentation. Author uses detailed shots from the woods and nature in general. We see a combination of long static shots and hand held camera manipulated with different editing effects. Costume design: Mateja Benedetti; Lights: Jaka Šimec; Visual design: Ana Čigon, Nataša Tovirac; Choreography: Nataša Tovirac; Dancers: Maša Kagao Knez, Teja Reba, Nataša Tovirac.
Subtitle: (poklon gozdu) / (compliment to the forest)
Production: Plesni studio Intakt, 2008
Dance video presents a dance show in a completely authorial way adding segments to the mere documentation. Author uses detailed shots from the woods and nature in general. We see a combination of long static shots and hand held camera manipulated with different editing effects. Costume design: Mateja Benedetti; Lights: Jaka Šimec; Visual design: Ana Čigon, Nataša Tovirac; Choreography: Nataša Tovirac; Dancers: Maša Kagao Knez, Teja Reba, Nataša Tovirac.
Ana Čigon - Nezlomljiva / Unbreakable (0:01:08)
Production: Ana Čigon, 2008
Video documents braking of the branches on trees; it gets harder and harder to break the branches and in the end the author gets to a branch that doesn't give in. Video consists of nine short scenes ending with freeze frames, eight of them forming a frame with the last - ninth shot placed in the middle. Video is shot with a hand held camera making only close-up shots.
Production: Ana Čigon, 2008
Video documents braking of the branches on trees; it gets harder and harder to break the branches and in the end the author gets to a branch that doesn't give in. Video consists of nine short scenes ending with freeze frames, eight of them forming a frame with the last - ninth shot placed in the middle. Video is shot with a hand held camera making only close-up shots.
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.
