Miha Vipotnik
No. 1414
"Shorts for TV"
Artist: Miha Vipotnik
Title: Shorts for TV
Subtitle: TV announcements, shows inserts and commercials
Duration: 10:00
Year: 1974/2002
Genre: Television Art / Art video

 
SYNOPSIS

TV announcements and inserts from TV shows from the 1980s show the creative work of Miha Vipotnik for public television (RTV Ljubljana). TV commercials made by Miha Vipotnik for various Slovenian producers and their brands between 1996 and 2002 show a skill in balancing the client's requirements and desires and Vipotnik's tendency to experiment in framing, editing and inserting unusual procedures also into this commercial genre. Often, the commercials have a cinematic effect, which may also override the primary purpose of the advertisement as such.


Selection:


Moda za vas [Fashion for You] (TV announcement)
RTV Ljubljana, 1974, 16mm, 4:3, colour, 30”
Studio 1 & Studio 2 (TV announcements)
RTV Ljubljana,
Insert from TV show New Year's Disco
RTV Ljubljana, 1983, digital format (recorded on 2” Open Reel), 4:3, colour, 2′ 32"                       
The experimental television show was led by Marjan Paternoster. In the insert, it features the the Pepel in kri Slovenian band, which is being playfully moved by a girl in the form of a TV remote.
Insert from a children's show ''A''
RTV Ljubljana (Jugoslavija), 1985, digital format (recorded on U-matic), 4:3, colour, 1'16''


TV commercials:
Bank of Celje: Prisoners
Slovenia, 1997, Super 16mm, 4:3, colour, 45” (The commercial won the Silver Bar Award at the 1997 Golden Drum International Advertising Festival.)
Zelene doline: Yogurt
Slovenia, 1996–2002, DigiBeta, 4:3, colour, 26”
Ljubljanske mlekarne: kornet Zlatorog
Slovenia, 1996–2002, Super 16mm, 4:3, colour, 36”
Mura: LeOna
Slovenia, 1996–2002, Super 16mm, 4:3, colour, 30”
Krka: Vitaskin
Slovenia, 1996–2002, Super 16mm, 4:3, colour, 20”
Peko (1)
Slovenia, 1996–2002, Super 16mm, 4:3, colour, 30”
Peko (2)
Slovenia, 1996–2002, Super 16mm, 4:3, colour, 30”
Sava: Goodyear
Slovenia, 1996–2002, Super 16mm, 4:3, b-w, 26"
Bayer: Aspirin Direkt
Slovenia, 1996–2002,Super 16mm, 4:3, colour, 15"
Ilirija: Trio
Slovenia, 1996–2002, Super 16mm, 4:3, colour, 28"
Radenska: Black currents
Slovenia, 1996–2002, Super 16mm, 4:3, colour, 34"



 
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Miha Vipotnik - The Power of Destiny (50:47)
Production: KUP, RTV Slovenija, 2001
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Production: RTV Slovenija, 2000
A non-narrative documentary video work captures scenes of nature and people placed in it. The moving visual poetics of the nature is followed by an orchestral work of seven pieces called Gazelles by Lucijan Marija Škerjanec and by narrations of sev...
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Production: Aanima, 1997
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Production: Aanima, 1997
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Miha Vipotnik - Eight (24:52 )
Production: 1992
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Miha Vipotnik - Did you say action? (Taco Cheap, Taco Deep) (16:32)
Production: CalArts, 1989
Artistic documentation of the shooting of a video film by George Kuchar: sequences of incidental shots from the backstage, edited directly in the camera. (Source: Videodokument)
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Production: CalArts, Los Angeles, 1988/1996
A short dramatic story in the form of an interview with the sculptor Eric Orr about his life and work in the sixties and seventies contucted by the musician Jim Rohing. The interviewer bombards his subject with questions, almost simulating a police invest...
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Miha Vipotnik - Video 8 Sketch Tape No. 1 (00:39)
Production: CalArts, 1988
A video sketch of the performer Dee McMillan and her project Log On poetically discusses the undeniable human freedom of creation. An insignificant sound from the background triggers a flow of associations and changes the course of editing. The banality o...
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Miha Vipotnik - Video 8 Sketch Tape No. 3 (01:25)
Production: CalArts, 1988
The mechanical measurement of time presented by a non-functioning clock is the background for the circling of the camera, and thus for the measuring of time. Noises of hammering and of editing procedures are heard in the background. The circling of the ca...
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Production: TDS Magenta, Cankarjev dom & RTV Ljubljana , 1987
Author's video document on the theatrical play of the same name by the Theatre Sestre Scipion Nasice, staged at Cankarjev Dom in Ljubljana in 1986. It was based on the Slovene mythological narrative of the Christianization period and at the same time in t...
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Production: Max-Max (Brut), 1986
In his video work the author gives an ironic statement about the state of home video production of that time and its integration in television programme (recorded for Petak u 22. TV Belgrade show in 1984). In the beginning the artist is sitting in a studi...
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