THE OLD AND THE NEW

VHS, V 8, U-matic, Beta SP, D 5 mastering, 66 min.
V.S. Video - Forum Ljubljana, VPK, TV Slovenija
Ljubljana, 1997
screenplay: Zemira Alajbegovic
director: Neven Korda
The film is compiled from archive materials and video projects of the theatre group FV 112/15, FV Disco, Radio Student, FVVideo and FV Label, all from the period between 1981 to 1989. It also includes music, photographies and texts from this period.

The Old and the New is a documentary on FVVideo shots. It reconstructs the lively bustle on the 'Ljubljana sub-cultural scene' in the 1980's.
A number of documents and video clips which were created between 1982 and 1989, were merged by the authors into an one hour long narrative, in which the melancholic story of an individual is interwoven with the flow of a socially-critical subculture and the broader historic frame - the manic Yugoslav socialistic reality.
The Old and the New features theatre performances and concerts by punk bands in the underground club as well as multi-media performances by the band Borghesia; images from pornographic films, aged socialist leaders and political rituals intertwine with the images of live people; in the 1980's the first gay and the first women's club started operating and so did independent publishing; philosophers such as Slavoj Zizek were discussing the relation between punk and the predominating culture, etc. The subculture was the predecessor of the [Avant-garde] movements, which emerged in the socialist regimes during the 1980's. The Old and the New revisits this inspired period, preserves the wrong, marginal side of history, writes the history of those who are excluded from history.

narrators: Evening Lategano and Smiljana Komar
slovene speakers [restoration]: Robert Horvat, Jure Longyka, Matjaz Pikalo and Nada Vodusek
sound restoration of The Great May Performance: Zemira Alajbegovic, Nerina Kocjancic, Neven Korda and Dario Seraval
accordion: Matjaz Pikalo
original voices [restoration]: Dusan Mandic, Alenka Marsenic, Dario Seraval, Goran Schmidt and Igor Vidmar
english speakers [overvoices]: Peter Altshul, Michael Benson and Eva Zigon
sound production: Damijan Kunej
cameraman: Stojan Femec
camera assistant: Damijan Femec
light: Cveto Vidmar
computer morphing: Stanka Brljevic
off line: Morena Fortuna
graphics: Neven Korda
edit: Neven Korda
production secretary: Tatjana Seljak
supported by:The Slovenian Film Fund, City Of Ljubljana - Arts Departement, Open Society Fund Slovenija and Soros Centre For Contemporary Art Ljubljana
coproduced by: Video produkcija Kregar /producer: Andrej Kregar, TV Slovenija Arts Programme /producer: Jaroslav Skrusny
produced by: V.S. Video - Forum Ljubljana /producer: Eva Rohrman


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WITHIN FOUR WALLS

Beta, 34 min.
Zank, VPK and TV Slovenija
Ljubljana, 1999
author: Zemira Alajbegovič
realisation: Neven Korda

In the documentary film Between Four Walls, the women that have escaped from violence within their families and sought help in a refuge, tell their stories. With covered faces they talk about years of abuse, violence, rapes, loneliness. We have also visited the refuge for women and children, the victims of violence, Centres for Social Work, the group for non-violent communication - in which men try to change their violent behaviour. The film also includes historians and anthropologists who discuss the broader extent of the problem. Scenes from Slovene feature films and animated films are also used.

consultant: Mojca Dobnikar
camera: Matjaz Mrak and Rok Sieberer
music: Aldo Ivancic
animation: Oliver Marceta
off-line editing: Matjaz Jankovic and Morena Fortuna
on-line editing: Vojko Zupanc
sound engineer: Igor Lalos and Boris Romih
sound effects: Marko Strajnar
graphic design: Karina Lomovec
secretary to director: Vesna Krizan
organisation: Patrizia Zonta - Rajh
executive producer: Andrej Herenc
department editor: Brabara Volcic - Lombergar
Tenants and cunsellors of
THE SHELTER FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN
VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, LJUBLJANA
special thanks to: Damir Bedekovic, Doroteja Simic - Omerzu, Tatjana Bobnar, Ales Drolc, Majda Sirca, Marko Poeschl, Karmen Fras
fragments from films: Idealist, Karolina Zasler's widowhood, See you in the next war, The funeral repast
support kindly provided by: Ljubljana Digital Laboratory - OSI Slovenija, Soros Documetary Fund, New York

THE SLICES OF THE TIME

Digtal beta 60 min.
ZANK, VPK and TV Slovenija
Ljubljana, 2001
screenplay and direction: Zemira Alajbegovic
director: Neven Korda

Time slices is a film about two grandmothers. Both women were born in the midst of the Great War, after which the Austro-Hungarian empire came to an end and a new county - Yugoslavia - emerged. They lived in different cultural and religious environments, one in [the predominantly Muslim] Bosnia , while the other lived in [the predominantly Catholic] Slovenia. They have never met, yet they are connected through their children and grandchildren. A film about childhood, love, war, 20th Century women. A film which makes us cry and laugh at the same time.

narrators: Ivanka Pivk, Rifat and Raza Karabegovic, Sead Alajbegovic, Ibrahim Karabegovic, Raza and Zoran Sarajlic and others
camera: Rok Sieberer, Joze Jagric, Matjaz Mrak, Erol Zubcevic, Zemira Alajbegovic and Neven Korda
off-line editing: Neven Korda and Zemira Alajbegovic
fire editing: Janez Ferlan
on-line editing: Neven Korda
archive: TV Slovenija, TV Bosne i Hercegovine [selection: Sead Bajric], Muzej novejse zgodovine, Slovenski solski muzej, Etnografski muzej Ljubljana, Narodna i sveucilisna knjiznica Zagreb and personal archives
cast: Taja Gubensek, Dan Pikalo, Ziga Jurecic, Enej Jurecic, Flora Lisica, Eva Cafuta Macek, Una Lara Pecovnik, Brina Blatnik, Ziva Korda, Primoz Pecovnik and Ziva Rogelj
make-up: Alja Susnik
costumes: Sonja Luzar
set design: Samo Jurecic
thanks to: Faruk Abdulahovic, Aleksandar in Ruza Mlac, Vesna Andree-Zaimovic, Dejan Voncina, Marko Stepec, Peter Braatz, Marko Poeschl, European Film College, Slavko Sinkovec, Mara Istenic, Danica Mlekuz, Aida Kurtovic, Amra Baksic, Ljudmila and Adria Airways
glasbena oprema: Miha Vardjan, Ilija Surev and Vesna Andree-Zaimovic
voice: Emir Jelkic
music: Aldo Ivancic
singers: Brina Voglenik, Maida Dzinic-Poljak and Evening Lategano
archive music: Kucica u cvecu /Zdenka Vuckovic, Zmaj od Bosne /Safet Isovic and Palesteena Original /Dixiland jazz Band
sound engineer: Igor Lalos and Andrej Logar
secretary to director: Tatjana Seljak
support kindly provided by: Slovenian Film Fund, Radio Student,
SCCA - Ljubljana, KulturKontakt - Austria, Televizija BiH and Adria Airways
editor: Majda Sirca
department editor: Jaroslav Skrusny

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