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STATEMENT
Perhaps the principal charm of the video medium is precisely its 'universal
visibility', which takes up the identity of film tradition on the one
hand, and the future of the virtual on the other. It is a medium in contradiction,
and a dynamic of interactions without a connection to the whole. However,
it also offers the possibility of the co-existence of the real and the
imaginary, the present and memory, the past and the future, dreams and
the conscious. In this context, the overriding theme of all my projects
has been the architecture of the picture or the architecture of every
actual surface, coded through the choreography of the movement of the
camera. Therefore I speak of my works as gesture video, which in later
installations leads to the colonisation of space by the picture, or to
the dance of light and darkness.
C.V.
Born on
15 February 1959 in Maribor. She took studies of film directing at the
Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television in Ljubljana. During studies
she was assistant director to several Slovene and foreign directors. She
is a member of the Association of Film Workers of Slovenia and of the
Association of Visual Artists of Slovenia. Her field of interest covers
different media: installation, video and film. She works as a free-lance
artist.
VIDEOGRAPHY:
Art video
STOPNIŠČE
/ STAIRCASE
Beta, VPK, Ministrstvo za kulturo RS & TV Slovenija, Ljubljana 1992,
15'
Script & Dir Jasna Hribernik
Cast Sanja Nešković, Sergej Gordijenko
Camera Vlado Drašković
Music Dome, This Heat
Edit Andrej Kregar
Two dancers,
a man and a woman, present different human positions and movements in
the space, and thus represent different times and spaces. The repetitive
scenes of people walking around indicate the passage of time, while the
fixed structure of the staircase delienates permanency.
 
BALLABENDE
Script & Dir Jasna Hribernik
Cast Sanja Nešković & Zmago Lenardič
Camera Jožef Jagrič
Music Peter Penko & April Nine
Edit Tomo Zajc
Costumes Alan Hranitelj
Nostalgia
for times past and echoes of the genteel sounds of the piano. Time is
defined by countless little details reappearing in different places -
just like film, which is the art of detail and exploration, but which
also stems from the past. We see a mighty but decaying old house, which
hides its own memories. The picture is coloured brown in the hue of old
photographs. The colour, scent and sound of the past is being violently
interrupted by the image of modernity in the form of a dancer moving to
techno-beats. The colour of this interfering image of modernity is bright
green. It is also a metaphor of the video image on our television sets,
which is becoming increasingly violent and insensitive to the time of
introspection.
 
LOK TELESA
/ THE BODY BOW
Beta, Sfinga, TV Slovenija & Ministrstvo za kulturo RS, Ljubljana
1996, 18' 21''
Script & Dir Jasna Hribernik
Cast Jasna Knez
Camera Jure Pervanje
Music Peter Penko, April Nine
Edit Tomo Zajc
In the late
seventies, the expressive dancer Jasna Knez travelled through the former
Yugoslavia creating new dance elements inspired by the particularities
of individual cultural surroundings. The video traces her steps during
the nineties, but now they are often viewed as absurd documents of the
post-war period. The layering of the images combines body movements and
the geography of space, but their visual harmony is disturbed by a graphic
sign undergoing several transformations, including an animated drawing.
The graphic sign was made in the manner of the old Bogomilian gravestones
from the 14th and 15th centuries, which are among the most original works
of European folk art and document the crossing of different cultures.
 
ELSA UND
LOHENGRIN
Beta, VPK, Ljubljana 1997, 3'
Authors Jasna Hribernik & Zmago Lenardič
Cast Sanja Nešković, Zmago Lenardič
Camera Izidor Farič
Music Richard Wagner, Il gran teatro Amaro
Edit Boris Gregorič
A variation
on Wagner and his opera Lohengrin. There is no Wagnerian hero, but a ballerina
dancing to the opera, which later transforms into a modern song, and the
ballerina also turns into a modern dancer. Both dancers, however, resemble
a woman covered with roses and lying under transparent plastic - Snow
White, or Laura Palmer?
 
CARTE POSTALE
Beta, TV Slovenija, Ljubljana 1997, 8'
Script & Dir Jasna Hribernik
Camera Jožef Jagrič
Music Jasna Hribernik (arhivska / archive)
Edit Tomo Zajc
By layering
of pictures the artist succeded in simultaneously presenting the past
and the present. Destruction of a house represents the present, and fragments
from letters written by people who used to live in the house represent
the past. An off-screen voice reads the letters, but the sounds soon become
unintelligible - for who gives us the right to rummage through the intimacies
of these anonymous people?
Anonymous they shall remain. For a moment we even see their faces in photographs,
but these photographs are something we have yet to become: history.
 
Documentary
video
Pentada
Beta SP, TV Slovenija, Ljubljana 1991, 15'
A dance performance, devised and choreographed by Henrik Neubauer for
camera.
Černobilski
zvonovi / The Bells of Chernobyl
Beta SP, TV Slovenija, Ljubljana & Sinji Šar, Kiev 1991, 45'
The absurdity of Russian reality presented through the rock concert dedicated
to the victims of Chernobyl.
Nikoli me
ne glej v oči / Never Look into My Eyes
Beta SP, TV Slovenija, Ljubljana & Art Press, Kiev, 1991, 29' 44''
The life of musicians and painters in Kiev.
Dan umira
rano / The Day is Dying Early
Beta SP, TV Slovenija, Ljubljana & Art Press, Kiev, 1991, 23'
On the Christian Orthodox religion in Ukraine.
Fenomen človeka
/ The Phenomenon of Human Being
Beta SP, TV Slovenija, Ljubljana & Art Press, Kiev, 1991, 27'
A presentation of a renowned Ukrainian woman healer.
Hiša nasprotij
/ House of Contrasts
Beta SP, TV Slovenija, Ljubljana 1998, 26'
Ljubljana's indoor marketplace conceals an unusual contrast: the vendors
in the basement and theology students in the upper levels.
Films
Presej poželenje
/ Sift the Desire!
16 mm, TV Slovenija, Ljubljana 1985, 35'
45 kilometrov
morja / 45 Km of Sea
16 mm, TV Slovenija, Ljubljana 1985, 14'
Ribič - noč
in dan / Fisherman - Day and Night
16 mm, TV Slovenija, Ljubljana 1987, 10'
Jutri / Tomorrow
16 mm, TV Slovenija, Ljubljana 1987, 35'
Sijaj v temi
/ Glow in the Dark
16 mm, TV Slovenija, Ljubljana 1988, 45'
Ljubljanski
krog / The Ljubljana Circle
16 mm, TV Slovenija, Ljubljana 1988, 45'
Čas je zdaj
/ The Time is Now
16 mm, TV Slovenija, Ljubljana 1989, 45'
PROJECTS
Video
Installations
1992
Stopnišče / Staircase, Ljubljana, Galerija Škuc
1993
Stopnišče / Staircase, Ostranenie, Dessau, Walter Gropius, Konsum Gebeude
1994
Stopnišče / Staircase, Long Beach, Long Beach Museum of Art Foundation
- Intelligent Ambience
1995
Ballabende, Postaja Topolovo, Topolo (with Zmago Lenardič)
1996
Recycling Opera, Copenhagen
Ljubljana (City Flowers of the World), Copenhagen, Nordjydsk Kulturland
1997
Elsa und Lohengrin, Ljubljana, Spomeniškovarstveni center
(with Zmago Lenardič)
Riba faronika (Modra roka - Majski salon '97), Ljubljana,
Galerija Riharda Jakopiča
1998
Elsa und Lohengrin, Maribor, Pekarna (with Zmago Lenardič)
Festivals
and screenings
1985
Sport film festival, Torino
1987
Festival JRTV produkcije, Planica
1992
7. film video monitor, Gorizia, Kino Vittoria -- New Visions of Film and
Video, Glasgow -- Muu Media 92 Festival, Helsinki -- 1. slovenski video
festival, Idrija, grad Gewerkenegg
1993
1. video festival, Idrija, KUD Naprej -- Alpe-Adria Cinema, Trieste, Teatro
Miela -- World Wide Video Festival, The Hague, Kijkhuis -- 16. Tokio Video
Festival, Tokyo -- Ostranenie, 1. Internationales Videofestival am Bauhaus
Dessau, Dessau, Bauhaus -- 5e semaine internationale Saint Gervais, Geneva
-- Bienale mladih, Rijeka, Moderna galerija -- Dance Screen, Frankfurt
-- 3. video film dance festival, Ljubljana, Cankarjev dom
1994
ars electronica, Linz -- Slovenački video danas, Belgrade, Bitef teatar
-- From Alternative Scene to Art Video: Video Production in Slovenia (1992-1994),
Rijeka, Moderna galerija -- Maribor, Media Nox -- Ljubljana, KUD France
Prešeren -- Skopje, Muzej na sovremenata umetnost -- Udine (Videokids
'94), Sala Video Cinema Ferroviario > Portogruaro -- A Past Memorized
- A Future Conceived: Video from Slovenia > Rotterdam, Zaal die Unie
> Amsterdam, Netherlands Film Museum > Vienna, Medienwerkstatt >
Graz, ESC > München, Marstal, Bayerischer Staatscheuspiel > Iowa,
School of Art and Art History > Kassel
1995
Stazione di Topolo / Postaja Topolove, Topolo -- Mesto žensk, Ljubljana,
Kinoteka
1996
European Cultural Capital 1996, Copenhagen
1997
7. slovenski filmski maraton, Portorož, Avditorij -- Videospotting (European
Cultural Month), Ljubljana, Klub Metropol -- Modra roka - Majski salon
`97, Ljubljana, Galerija Riharda Jakopiča -- Maraton - ne samo en dan
slovenskega ženskega filma in videa (Mesto žensk), Ljubljana, Slovenska
kinoteka
1998
Maribor, Kibla (video presentation)
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