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 them to treat her client. Scenes of preparations are accompanied with whistling dictating an optimistic working atmosphere. Video Collectors #3 is a reflection of the author about a personal profile, some sort of auto portrait placing the viewer into Other's experience. At the same time it opens the space for a critical reflection of situations we find ourselves in and prejudices we nourish toward those situations. She questions about man's fight for existence and gaining freedom to decide about life and death. In a series of works Collectors the author deals with an individual trapped in a subordinate position and with personal memories and the problematic task of articulating them. She focuses on a post traumatic recovery after the World War II and the Balkan wars in the 90's. The author tries to illustrate the situations of the weaker confronting the influential, who execute abuse in everyday life and on the level of national politics. These kind of articulations are perceived as necessary by the author. In history as in the present time exist patterns of political discourse presenting the supremacy of brutal force. In the Collectors series we witness traumatic occurrences and historical events, which make us feel outraged and powerless. It is the life behind the iron curtain in which we get to know the poetics of human kind and wisdom of everyday life. The author wishes to take the viewer into the experience of the Other.
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...
Production: Filmska šola z Mirjano Borčić / Pionirski dom Ljubljana, 1969/1970
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 Ac...