In 1955, the Czech film director Frantisek Cap, who immigrated to Slovenia, created the Slovenian feature film Trenutki odlocitve \u201cMoments of Decision.\u201d The video \u201cMoments of Decision\u201d by Grzinic and Smid is a reconstruction of this partisan film. By emphasing the role of the leading heroine from Cap’s partisan\u2019s film drama through the video, a video love melodrama is produced. Formally this entailed a special visual solution as well, a synthesis of the Cap’s film sequences with the new produced video pictures. The story from the black and white film occurs in the video within newly introduced iconographic elements. The video is also a significant in the context of current research in the field of art history, as it quotes from historical periods parallel to the time when the film was produced, and as well it parallels the time when the video was produced. It rearticulates soc-realistic and pop-realistic elements and historical data. In the video excerpts from the book The Lover by Marguerite Duras are used, and as well sentences from the original film screenplay found in the Slovenian Film Archive, sentences that were left out, or censored in the time the film was produced.<\/p>\n
In 1955, the Czech film director Frantisek Cap, who immigrated to Slovenia, created the Slovenian feature film Trenutki odlocitve \u201cMoments of Decision.\u201d The video \u201cMoments of Decision\u201d by Grzinic and Smid is a reconstruction of this partisan film. By emphasing…<\/span><\/p>\n