Marina Gržinić/Aina Šmid: The Threat of the Future (1983)

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With the song by Yello “Pin ball cha cha” and the singer that invites us to watch by singing “Come, come closer to me, I tell you man you will see…” we enter in the dance performed by Marina Grzinic. The public is in relation to the dance as in a peep show, implying a pornographic camera eye but as well a certain cannibalisation/pornographic perpetuation of our lives by the law and mass media that from 1980s will transform the paradigm of society and discipline into society and control. Therefore we have a duplication of roles, Marina Grzinic and Aina Smid in front of the camera as in some kind of cinema verite (talking about their sexual lives and lesbian attitudes) and Grzinic/ Smid on the TV behind them as a night show.

Marina Gržinić/Aina Šmid: 
Relations. 25 years of the lesbian group ŠKUC-LL, Ljubljana (2011)

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Relations. 25 years of the lesbian group ŠKUC-LL, Ljubljana http://grzinic-smid.si/?p=276 (watch documentary) Authors: Marina Gržinić, Aina Šmid, Zvonka T Simčič
Length: 84 min 02 sec, 2012, color, sound
Slovenian, Serbian, Croatian, with English subtitles
Produced by Zavod CCC, Ljubljana. This documentary video film is about the 25 anniversary of the lesbian group ŠKUC-LL (1987-2012) and about the lesbian […]

Dušan Makavejev: W.R.:Mysteries of Organism (1971)

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W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism is a 1971 film by Dušan Makavejev that explores the relationship between communist politics and sexuality, as well as exploring the life and work of Wilhelm Reich. The film intercuts documentary footage with, predominantly, a narrative about Milena, a Yugoslav woman who seduces a Soviet ice skater. Despite different settings, characters and time periods, the different elements produce a single story of human sexuality and revolution through a montage effect.

Sanja Iveković: Triangle (1979)

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Sanja Iveković’s Triangle is an 18-minute performance that took place on 10 May 1979: while Yugoslavian president Josip Broz Tito’s motorcade passes by below, the artist is sitting on her balcony, reading a book, sipping whiskey and making ‘gestures’ as if performing masturbation, until a security official arrives and asks her to leave. Exhibited as four black-and-white photographs and a short descriptive text, Triangle is one of the most resonant and defiant works of performance made in the 1970s.

Tanja Ostojić: Looking for a Husband with EU-Passport (2000-2005)

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“In August 2000 I started “Looking for a Husband with EU Passport” project: www.cac.org.mk/capital/ostojic. After publishing an ad with this title, I exchanged over 500 letters with numerous applicants from around the world. After a correspondence of six months with a German man Klemens G. I arranged our first meeting as a public performance in […]

Zemira Alajbegović/Neven Korda: Staro in Novo (1997)

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Staro in novo je dokumentarec o posnetkih FVVidea. Rekonstruira živahni vrvež na ‘ljubljanski subkulturni sceni’ v 80-ih letih. Množico dokumentov in video posnetkov, nastalih od 1982 do 1989, sta avtorja združila v enourno pripoved, v kateri se melanholična zgodba posameznika prepleta s tokom družbeno-kritične subkulture in širšim zgodovinskim okvirjem – manično jugoslovansko socialistično realnostjo.

Marina Gržinić/Aina Šmid: Icons of Glamour, Echoes of Death (1982)

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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 remember their childhood, the years in school and the first experience with masturbation.This work is possible to be seen as one of the first if not the first in the field of video art in the world that opens and dramatise the institution of masculinity through drag practices in socialism.

Želimir Žilnik: Marble Ass (1995)

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Marble Ass  Merlyn has been pacifying the Balkans, turning tricks with countless Serbian guys. Merlyn is a lighting rod sheltering Belgrade, calming violent nighthawks, swanky big spenders, miserable loners and horny young studs, taking on the charge that would otherwise befall little girls, unprotected mothers and helpless old women. Combined with guns, this unbridled energy […]