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We live in an era of instant television, instant lunches, instant jobs, instant marriages and instant society in general. “Who’s Afraid of Jerry Springer” is a hysterical telenovela in which reign a quasi-cosmopolitan fashion editor Samanta and her bohemian husband Dario.
"Postcards" is the first part of the film diptych „Postcards and Report on the situation of asylum seekers in Republic of Slovenia, January 2008 – August 2009“. The footage comes from the archive of Radio-Television Slovenia. It represents an archival collection documenting media reporting on migrants in the period 2001-2008. I was interested in analysing the representation of migrants in public. I wanted to show how images in themselves, through the way they are produced (montaged), effect the criminalization and victimization of the represented group.
The film is a prequel to the feature film Riders in the Dark.
Živela Koroška is the substantive continuation of the film dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the plebiscite in 2020 (One Hundred Years Since the Carinthian Plebiscite), and shows life in Carinthia after the plebiscite.
An (un)ordinary day of an (un)ordinary family without hands.
When Boris returns from work earlier than planned, he finds his wife Tanja in bed with his best friend Gregor.
This story of various shelters and bunkers is a story about the senselessness of wars and conflicts, and at the same time a story about the turbulent history of Slovenia.
Jana is very afraid of insects. One day, a giant Wasp whizzes by! It loves opera and strawberry juice, and above all, it looks at the universe completely differently than humans. Will a summer wander through the streets of Ljubljana open Jana's eyes to new perspectives?
An insight into six months of life on tour with Maša Pavoković and Eva Kristina Filipčič, the managers of Koala Voice and persons from Porlock. The film crew follows the bands across Slovenia and internationally as the protagonists are reaching important milestones in their music careers.
The War of the Words or the Respectful Silence? is a commissioned film made for an educational program in schools. Through this program, children rediscover their own history, the history of their territory and apply this knowledge to the future.
An intimate, pseudo-documentary portrait of a specific Port and its relationship with the town that it affects so significantly. In addition to the poetic aspect, the film also highlights its dark sides. The pollution, loneliness, greedy invasion and suppression of the old town, once an island, as if driven by the force of Mars that cannot be contained. Not any longer.
A day in the life of someone doing job at a train station as a track controller.
The spread of coronavirus. What will his new life look like? How has the epidemic impacted us? Can we live normal lives again?
The film is a reshoot of the film Solidarity done by Joyce Wieland in the year 1973. It is a representation of the struggle of the workers in Ljubljana.
The phenomenon of urban country music from the Balkans particularly in Slovenia.
The film explores relationships between the male and female mind; the way their psyche is impacted by fear and jealousy, and how they respond differently to the same event leads to gender stereotypes being challenged throughout the film.
Viktor, Liza and Sabina wake up in a mysterious room with no recollection of how they ended up there. Since they cannot escape, they start to get to know each other. Each of them has their own story which does not seem to be connected to other stories.
A Century of Dreams is a feature documentary about the oldest Slovenian inventor, Peter Florjančič, who has recently celebrated his 100th birthday. In the film, the controversial innovator gives a first-hand account of, in his own words, a life as thrilling as Hitchcock’s films. Florjančič considers himself a hedonist whose inventions have given him a luxurious and exciting life.
Marko, the son of provincial parents, is a mathematics genius. His great interest in mathematics in his childhood years isolates him from social life. His father, the only person who is aware of his son's isolation, encourages him and teaches him about life. Some day the father goes to the woods to fell trees, and dies in an accident. Because of that Marko moves to Ljubljana and wants to study mathematics in spite of not having finished the secondary school, which causes many complications.
A well-established writer fights his family demons while the dreamers on top of the hill struggle with their health and hope for good fortune. A successful businesswoman has plenty of the latter; still, when her daughter’s singing career takes off, she starts questioning her own professional choices. A nagging doubt is also tormenting an underwater construction worker, who wants to show his son a mysterious dark lake. This visually striking film is a subtle narrative, a love story between people and a fading city.
The animated biography of Mother Teresa.
What do volunteer firefighting, Dalmatia, Jože Potrebuješ and denial of one’s true self have in common? This is a film which tells nothing new… A film about Slovenian popular music, the only genre that can live off its consumers’ approval alone; no subsidies, whining and advertising. What happens after music critics and art theorists go to bed? What happens when radio editors stop pretending that mainstream music in Slovenia is in sync with that at global level? What happens when students quit the act of being urban and progressive, surrendering themselves to their newly discovered roots? What happens is Slovenian Popular Music.
Against the background of current Austrian politics, the film reconstructs the history of the Carinthian minority conflict. The focus of this documentary is the eventful 1970s, when a young generation of Carinthia's Slovenes took up the fight for their rights laid down in Austria's State Treaty of 1955. With Haider as provincial governor, it is a fight fought until today.
A compilation of the Borghesia video clips (So Young, The Wild Bunch, He, Too Much Tension, Cindy, A.R., ZMR), issued in 1985 as the first video cassette by the FV Label. These are short, almost 'film-like' stories focused primarily on the iconography of the body in urban surroundings. One of the clips presents a pioneer use of computer graphics.
Documentary about Slovenian journalist Juri Gustincic. He was a correspondent in Great Britain, Greece, Israel, U.S., etc. from 1950s to 1980s, reporting to Belgrade RTV and RTV Ljubljana. In 1968 he was one of ten Yugoslavian journalists who reported on the invasion of Soviet forces in Czechoslovakia.
Viktorija is a homeless girl who explores abandoned buildings and takes photos of them. She is looking for a place to stay – with running water and a warm bed. Her husband is in prison. When he gets out, they have big plans: to find a place to stay, to get a job, to stop using, to start a new life. Will they make it? Through their story, the film talks about universal human desires: to be loved and to belong – someplace, with someone. But first we have to love ourselves.
Humankind has always be curious about the innate rhythms which can be created with human bodies. Impulse explores the microcosm of rhythms that exist within folk dance.
Jelena and Jastog flee war and find refuge in the mountains, where they brace themselves for a fatal meeting with a scary phantom from Jelena’s childhood and play badminton. But you are never really alone in the mountains, and they quickly get company. Life is just sick.
A documentary film about three airmen and one woman.
The mysterious, charming Mr. P. F., the protagonist of this full-length documentary film, is a sportsman, inventor, owner of more than 400 patents and a cosmopolitan who knew life in Europe's most glamorous cities. His inquisitiveness and the spirit of cosmopolitanism lured him to Switzerland, where he only just started living. Very quickly he ended up among the European rich elite and they accepted him as one of them. He was a millionaire who was thought to be a billionaire and who also lived like a billionaire.
Djulo falls in love with a giant green eye.
This video dance project is a sort of condensed poetical and cynical look on the situation in the ex-Yugoslav territory. Hysterical and hectic dance movements are put in juxtaposition with surrealistic artificially constructed imageries, based on Magritte's paintings and documentary shoots of the refugee camps, where Bosnian refugees lived in Ljubljana.
BORDERS ARE THRESHOLD LANDS To cross one is to stand at the dawn and at the dusk of a journey; is doubt and echo of a past that still clings to the skin. The two protagonists know this well, suspended in the weighty everydayness of transformation on the Italian-Slovenian border, an eternal place of travels and conflicts
It depicts the life of Slovenians in Porabje region with a puppet show perfomed by the puppet group from Gornji Senik. The puppets represent the Porabje archetypes of a policeman, a cook, a musician, a blacksmith - in short, people who are also found in real life. With the help of the puppeteers, we discover their families and confront the problems of the existence of Slovenians in Porabje.
After the end of World War II, the areas along the Slovenian western border were occupied by the Allied army for two years.
Conversations with some Gorizia artists from both sides of the border who participated in two retrospective art exhibitions in Gorizia and Nova Gorica in the year the border was opened. We were interested in what a crossing point means, who or what determines national and cultural identity, and how to live and create without borders.
The documentary video is the result of the fifth memorial service, carried out in 2015 as part of a multi-year public memory collection project at the former border crossing between Nova Gorica and Gorizia. In the premises of the railway station in Nova Gorica, we collected memories and photographs of buildings in Nova Gorica and Gorizia that we pass by without knowing their stories and fates. Citizens of both Gorizias were invited to select photographs of the buildings in their albums and talk about their stories.
A sequence of pictures of picturesque tree and shrub constellations comes to an abrupt end.
A poetic exploration of self-doubt and perseverance. Do You Know Where the Birds Live blends reality with imagination as the author reflects on her journey.
The film, printed at the International Centre of Graphic Arts, draws inspiration from the exhibition Victor Vasarely: In Echo. Just as Vasarely's art explores optical illusions, movement, and geometric patterns, the film weaves together visual elements that create hypnotic effects and dynamic compositions. The film was printed "frame by frame".
At the beginning of the 20th century, the Žagar family in Notranjska region developed an international timber industry. The timber concern was inherited by young brothers Line and Franci. Line, impressed by the then Soviet idea of a just society, became a communist, while Franci tried to preserve the family fortune. World War II divided the world and also put the Žagar brothers on opposite sides. Eighty years later, Franci's daughters - sisters Monika and Barbara Žagar - explore in the film what happened to their uncle and father. The animated documentary about the Žagar family is a story about the tension between one's own identity and ideology.
Frants, 31, reflects on his fears, life's challenges and fatherhood. There is nothing special about him, an ordinary person who lives in Russia and who is trying to find himself in this life.
The story unfolds over three days, and follows Maša, whose feelings are incompatible with the awakening of spring, boiling from the windows of her room. Through the film we follow her attempts at reconciliation.
A long time ago a group of monks manage to catch the Evil into the amulet. They cut the amulet into three pieces and give them to the guardians. After a long time, two of them somehow come into the hands of the infamous El Nadir. To revive the Evil, he must get the third one, which is in the possession of guardian Ming...
Against a repetitive trance-inducing loop of four carefully excerpted bars from “Ntsikana’s Bell” (1974, with Johnny Dyani), the enigmatic Sulejman Ferenčak—one of fifty members of the slippery production network OM, which concocted dozens of small-gauge gems in the late 70s and 80s--launches and spins his Super 8 tripod-attached camera in a methodical sequence of 360-degree rotations. Sky and earth are euphorically, deliriously transcended in what is not so much an homage to Michael Snow’s La Région Centrale, but rather its spiritual detonation from within.
Heartful of music is an intimate and documentary-style visual story on Improcon 2017, about improvised music in general, and a certain vision of free-thinking. It features interviews and ad-hoc sessions by the festival’s participating artists. In 2017 the workshop festival hosted more than 70 artists from 18 countries, and had been organized by Slovenian associations KUD Mreža from Ljubljana and Klub Metulj – Youth Centre Bistrica ob Sotli from Bistrica ob Sotli with Croatian association Gokul from Zabok, partnered by two Austrian organizations: Schaumbad – Freies Atelierhaus from Graz, and Šopron Shuffle – Trans European Music Meetings from Vienna.
A short documentary film that gives an insight in the formation and early development of the heritage elements of Slovenia. At the same time, it is a condensed presentation of Slovenian ancestors’ lifestyle from their settlement in the sixth century to early modern times.
Among more than 50,000 Slovenes who left their homes in Gorizia, Trieste and Istria due to the growing pressure of fascism and the economic crisis, around 60 families moved to Macedonia in 1931, to the village of Bistrenica on the Vardar River, 100km from Skopje.
A man. A woman. A chick. Three stories. One indeed.
Of the 1.5 million Assyrians living in Iraq in 2003, only 250,000 have remained there until today. A large majority has fled their homes, seeing no immediate end to war and terror. The Assyrians have been the guardians of the civilisation for eight thousand years. With their disappearance, the Middle East is losing one of its fundamental identities, while the world is losing part of the human race.
A story about a former spy, a honest criminal, a kung-fu fighter, a poet and a locar hero in Tolmin (Western Slovenia, close to Italian border).
Short film about a priest and a dead man's ashes.
The film shows the hard work of the Brkini people, customs and life in the period between the First and the Second World War. The central part of the action is the story of a young couple conditioned by social and property stratification. A typical social drama, based on a true story, has a happy ending, but the events testify to the ossified tradition of subordinate and superior.
Two people on opposite sides of Slovenia have the same dream at the same time. In their dreams, they fall in love, but wake up next to their respective partners.
A docudrama with fascinating aerial footage of the restoration of the statue of Archangel Michael and its historical importance for the town of Piran. In the spring of 2018, strong Bora winds tore off one of the wings of Archangel Michael, a 3.5m copper sheet statue placed at the top of the Piran church tower. While taking the viewer through its thorough restoration, the film also transports them 250 years back in time.