by Marina Grzinic In the context of the relation between history, activism, the image and capital, I would like to outline some topics that deal with capital, gender and positioning, i.e. with theory and history. My principal question is what…
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Spectralization of History, Spectralization of the Image, Spectralization of Europe (2000)
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Deklica z oranžo (The Girl With Orange) (1987)
– Metaphorical realism is what is at the core of this work. It is a form of realism with a strong mixture of unspoken sentences and not easy comprehensible thoughts. Far from the city, driving her car, the female protagonist…
Posted in video Tagged with: black-wave, camera-revolver, Djordjevic, hate, love, Magritte, memory, realism, relationship, TV, vision, women, worries, youth
Gola pomlad (Bare Spring) (1987)
“I’ve learned everything by watching. Without those pictures we wouldn’t exist either,” says the male protagonist, in reply to his friend’s question about his cross-dressing habits. This “road video,” dedicated to the “road movies” of Wim Wenders, aims to portray…
Posted in video Tagged with: 1980s, cross-dressing, road-video, rock, sensibility, specificity, stereotypes, Wenders, women, Yugoslavia
Os življenja (Axis of Life) (1987)
— The story of the video Axis of life is that of two women remembering their “common” husband – a man who is imputed to have killed both of them, whereas in fact they are alive and they have murdered…
Doma (At Home) (1986)
– The story of the film At home takes place in the early 1950s. This is the story of a man and his part in the 2nd World war, during which he is forced to murder his wife. After the…
Posted in video Tagged with: 2WW, aesthetics, death, film-noire, Hitchcock, imagery, impossible, love, memory, murder, socrealism, suspense, women
Trenutki odločitve (Moments of Decision) (1985)
In 1955, the Czech film director Frantisek Cap, who immigrated to Slovenia, created the Slovenian feature film Trenutki odlocitve “Moments of Decision.” The video “Moments of Decision” by Grzinic and Smid is a reconstruction of this partisan film. By emphasing…
Posted in video Tagged with: censorship, feminism, melodrama, partisan, pop-realism, reconstruction, soc-realism
“To ni rdeča, kri je!”, pogovor z Marino Gržinić, Ana Vujanović (2005)
Ana Vujanović: Tako širša javnost kot bralci TkH-ja poznajo Marino Gržinić predvsem kot eno glavnih sodobnih teoretičark na področju umetnosti, medijev, filozofi je ter humanistike v nekdanji Jugoslaviji in Vzhodni Evropi. Poleg tega je tudi kulturna ustvarjalka, kustosinja in organizatorka…
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