Spovednica tihotapcev je prva spominodajalska akcija iz serije Čezmejne akcije zbiranja spomina: Carinarnica na meji med dvema mestoma, državama, družbenima sistemoma, med romanskim in slovanskim svetom 65 let po končani vojni. 20. decembra 2007 z vstopom Slovenije v schengensko območje se Nova Gorica prvič v svoji kratki zgodovini znajde brez mejnih zapornic. Isti večer se ta travmatični prostor spremeni v prostor srečanj. V njem so nameščeni kamera, mikrofon, računalnik in zavesa, za katero je omogočeno nemoteno spominjanje. Ljudje prihajajo z ene in druge strani, s seboj prinašajo zgodbe in podobe ter jih podarjajo v skupni album spominov obeh mest. Zaupani spomini ter fragmenti družinskih in arhivskih filmov, posnetih na tem območju, pripovedujejo, kako se lahko dve različni realnosti istočasno znajdeta na istem mestu.
Čezmejne akcije zbiranja spomina
Namen spominodajalskih akcij je oblikovati odprti arhiv, ki se razvija s časom in postaja nekakšno darilo, ki ga prebivalci obeh mest poklanjamo bodočim generacijam. Podobno kot družinski album, ki ga osmišlja njegova nedokončanost, je tudi arhiv spomina v nenehnem procesu nastajanja in reartikuliranja. Nove Gorice in Gorice namreč leta ni ločevala le meja med dvema državama in družbenima sistemoma ampak tudi meja med dvema razumevanjema preteklosti. Mejni prehodi, ki so nas leta ločevali, danes lahko postajajo mesta srečanj, ki reflektirajo odnos med osebnim in kolektivnim spominom.
Akcije: Spovednica tihotapcev (2007), Ordinacija spomina (2009), Album mesta (2011), Ordinacija spomina Ljubljana (2012), Najdeni portreti (2013), Podobe pozabe (2014), Sešiti spomini (2015), Portreti stavb (2015) in Rešilec spomina (2018). (vir: Anja Medved)
Production: Kinoatelje, 2010
A customs office building on the border between two towns, two countries, two social systems, two worlds, the Romanic and the Slavic, 65 years after the end of the war. On the 20th of December with the entry of Slovenia into the Schengen area, Nova Gorica...
Production: Kinoatelje, 2007
Talks with some Gorizia artists from both sides of the border (between Yugoslavia and Italy), who participated in two transparent art exhibitions in Gorizia and Nova Gorica in the year of the opening of the border. We were interested in what the transitio...
Production: Kinoatelje, 2006
A story about the city Solkan and river Soča and how the border (between Yugoslavia and Italy after World War II) cut the river into Soča and Isonzo. And also, how Kayaking has become a school and a philosophy of life of a place.
Production: Kinoatelje, 2004
When the Primorska Region was annexed to Yugoslavía, the town of Gorica/Gorizia remained in Italy. In 1948, a new Gorizia (Nova Gorica) began to be built on the Yugoslav side. The town in a meadow, on a swamp, on an abandoned cemetery by an old bri...
Production: Kinoatelje, Deželni sedež RAI za Furlanijo Julijsko krajino – slovenski program, 2002
Documentary. Gorizia, Sept. 16th, 1947. The borderline has split the town, the fields, the people and the whole world into two parts. The borderline was imposed between houses and streets, between fields and gardens – between people. It has divided...