Prerokbe Ognja (1996) aka Predictions of Fire
Directed by Michael Benson
Genre: Documentary, Visual Arts
Runtime: 90 min
Country: Slovenia / USA
Language: English
Color: Color
imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114176/
Reviews: http://www.ljudmila.org/kinetikon/press.htm
Tagline: A FILM ABOUT ART, POLITICS AND WAR
Plot Summary: A visceral documentary focusing on the Slovenian collective art movement known as NSK ('Neue Slowenische Kunst') and its varied branches: 'Laibach', 'Irwin', and 'Red Pilot'.
Another visual assault from the NSK collective.
This great documentary about NSK`s work shows the whole organization in the conditions of second part of the 90`s, when communist regimes in eastern Europe ceased to exist. This film can be understood as a follow up of the first documentary about slovenian industrial rock band Laibach called "Laibach: Pobeda Pod Suncem" , but this time, you can see work of all sections united in the Neue slowenische Kunst collective (Laibach, Irvin, Rdeci pilot/Noordung, Novi kolektivizem, Department of pure and applied philosophy...). A must see for all, who are interested in NSK`s retrogardist artistic point of view, music or graphical design and who wants to understand the historical, cultural and political background of this exceptional art movement.
Made in Slovenia by American documentary filmmaker Michael Benson, this documentary offers a thought-provoking look at the history of the recently formed Republic of Slovenia and how it relates to the earlier formation of the controversial NSK (the New Slovenian Arts collective). The NSK came together in the '80s just before the fall of the Communist party, Yugoslavia broke into several war-torn nations. It was begun by Laibach, a popular industrial rock band and later joined by the Red Pilot theater group and by Irwin, a band of painters. As collective artists, they used their arts to look back into European history and show the destruction wrought when ideology overshadows humanity. Art plays a subtle but key role in ideological domination. With history as their basis, NSK predicted the eruption of hatred and war that would tear Yugoslavia apart in the '90s. — Sandra Brennan
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