No War but Class War!, 2009, 6:38 Marina Grzinic and Aina Smid In collaboration with Zvonka Simcic Text by Marina Grzinic Ljubljana/Slovenia No War but Class War! What does it mean to perform class struggle? It means to expose the…
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No War but Class War! (2009)
Posted in video Tagged with: aesthetics, capitalism, class, colonialism, coloniality, democracy, discrimination, enslavement, Europe, explotation, Mbembe, politics, precarity, racialization, racism, resistance, struggle, technology, terror, violence, war
Dan D (D Day) (1997)
The video is a passionate, in the aesthetic of an experimental film, radiography of the multi ethnic, racial and psychological matrix of today modern cities. As a voyeur, searching for faces, gestures, bodies, traumas, the work shows how bodies migrate,…
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Moscow Portraits (1990)
Moscow portraits is a video project, which reconstructs the work and life of the great Russian avant-gardist, suprematist painter from the 1920s – Kasimir Malevich. His ideas and works are transformed through six bizarre portraits of a “man reading Malevich…
Posted in video Tagged with: 1989, aesthetics, animation, avant-garde, collaborative, computer-graphics, history, homage, installation, international, Malevich, Mondrian, Moscow, performance, portraits, simulation, Soviet-Union, suprematism
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
Ikone glamurja, odmevi smrti (Icons of Glamour, Echoes of Death) (1982)
The video is about the phantasmatic world of a woman stereotype portrayed as a model (Marina Grzinic)/apparently a transvestite (that switches through language between sexes, being she and then suddenly he), and her friend – a hermaphrodite (Aina Smid). They…
Posted in video Tagged with: aesthetics, avant-garde, drag-practices, female-pleasure, feminism, gender, hermaphrodite, lesbians, masturbation, performances, phantasmatic, pornography, sadomasochism, sexuality, socialism, stereotype, transvestite, women
