Laibach: Victory under the Sun
Director: Goran Gajić
62 mins. Yugoslavia, 1988
The documentary film Laibach: Victory under the Sun follows the Slovenian band Laibach. It depicts with pure "laibachian" style the history of the group within the context of Slovenian history and the political situation at the beginning of the 1980s. The film can be considered as a visual manifesto of the NSK collective.
BRAVO: Laibach in film
Director: Peter Vezjak
57 mins. Slovenia, UK, 1993
BRAVO: Laibach in film includes shots from the BRAVO tour interspersed with acted scenes, video clips and theoretical reflections by theorist Slavoj Žižek and critic Chris Bohn. Together they tell the compelling story of Laibach, the controversial Slovenian band in the eighties.
Predictions of Fire
Director: Michael Benson
84 mins. Slovenia, USA, 1996
Using an inventive combination of reportage, dramatization, archival footage, animation and miniatures, Predictions of Fire is a revealing study of the Slovenian arts collective NSK. Shot in Ljubljana, Moscow, New York, Belgrade, and Athens, this visually arresting film offers a portrait of a culture suspended between East and West. By documenting NSK, Predictions of Fire holds a mirror up to Europe and the world, analyzing the way nations are brought into conformity with ideology.
The Fine Art of Mirroring, Youth Day 1987
Directors: Corinne Enquist & Toma Bačić
52 mins. Croatia, 2012
The Fine Art of Mirroring investigates the background of the nationwide poster scandal provoked by NSK’s design proposal for Youth Day—an annual celebration of the birthday of the deceased president Tito as well as of the pan-Yugoslav ideas of brotherhood and unity. The documentary probes the question of the power of art and cultural expression, the impact and consequences for their authors as well as the incredible set of circumstances, which permitted the initiators of such a provocation to go unpunished.
Goya, The Secret of the Shadows
Director: David Mauas
77 minutes, Spain, 2011
With a plot like a fictional detective story, this documentary by David Mauas tells the story of Ramon, a Barcelona based photographer, trying to identify the authorship of a nineteenth-century portrait painting he has bought. Some experts suspect that his acquisition is no less than a work by the great Francisco Goya. By involving professional graphologists, restoration artists, auction house employees, and even the Spanish police in this production, the director introduces the viewer to the intense history of interpreting Goya’s artistic legacy.
This screening is held with the support of the Embassy of Spain in the Russian Federation.
Robert Longo. An Artist’s Journey
Director: Paul Tschinkel
46 minutes, USA, 2015
In this film, graduate of Buffalo State College Robert Longo, together with friends and fellow colleagues—including Cindy Sherman and other artists—is portrayed as a prominent representative of the so-called “Pictures Generation”—an art movement in late 1970s and 1980s New York, which aimed at undermining the unconscious collective cultural clichés and challenged minimalism as much as conceptual art. Director, fine and video artist Paul Tschinkel traces the oeuvre of Longo from the 1970s to the present day, uncovering the diversity of his creative practices and the meticulous details of his signature charcoal drawing technique.
Garage would like to thank Paul Tschinkel for providing the film for this screening.
Arena Brains
Director: Robert Longo
31 minutes, USA, 1987
Robert Longo’s first short film documents the tensions between the creative scene and the art market that characterized the 1980s, focusing on a critique of the latter. He brings his collage methodology to cinema, assembling the film from several novellas interrelated by minor narrative details alone. By 1987 Longo had become a relatively acclaimed artist in the creative milieu, allowing him to invite big-name contributors to the making of the film. Richard Price, who had just finished the screenplay for Martin Scorsese’s The Color of Money, agreed to become Longo’s co-author on this picture. Meanwhile, Emily Prager, Max Frye and Eric Bogosian each wrote a scene for, and played a part in the film. Steve Buscemi stars beside them, in one of the first roles of his career.
Garage would like to thank Robert Longo for providing the film for this screening.
Music Videos by Robert Longo
Overall duration: 30 minutes
Since 1986, Robert Longo has been making music videos, mainly for musicians who are also his friends. The videos selected for display at Garage Auditorium include pieces he shot for bands R.E.M., Megadeth, The Golden Palominos, and others.
Garage would like to thank Robert Longo for providing the videos for this screening.
