Prerokbe Ognja (1996)

Director:
Michael Benson

Ovaj dokumentarac je zapravo ne tolko film o Laibachu nego se vise fokusira na taj ART deo i NSK ili kako to oni vole da kazu : A Film About Art, Politics, and War. Da ne bih mogo drvio parafraziracu samo jednu poentu Slavoja Zizeka koju je izreko u ovom filmu, naravno jako je bilo tesko povatati sve to jer njegov engleski izgovor je svima jako dobro poznat, znaci to razumeti u celini je jako tesko, ali sustina donekle i moze da se shvati tako da se unapred izvinjavam ako sam negde omanuo ali mislim da i ako jesam nisam mnogo. Naravno ne morate ovo chitati, mozete sve to naci u originalu na tom da ga tako krstim "zizek enleskom" u filmu ali evo ga ovde pa ko voli...i tako dalje :

Najcesce pitanje koje chovek postavlja sebi vezano sa Laibach je da li oni sebe shvataju ozbijno ili je to vise neka vrsta ironije ? Ja mislim da su ovde ponudjene dve pogreshne alternative, jer automatska pretpostavka je da ako je tvoj stav prema odredjenom drushtvenom sistemu, sistemu drushtvenih vrednosti, itd. ironichan da si onda subverzivan, a ako si ozbiljan da si automatski konformista. Ja mislim da je cela poenta, sushtina, osnovno gledishte Laibachove strategija ovo - i to ne vazhi samo za Sloveniju nego uopshteno, za takozvani kasni kapitalizam - da je sistemu samom po sebi inherentno da njegova sopstvena ideologija ne sme biti shvacena ozbiljno. Drugim recima, cinizam kao danasnji preovladjujuci vid ideologije oznachava pozitivni preduslov funkcionisanja sistema gde on sam svoju ideologiju ne shvata ozbiljno. I idealan subjekt je danas onaj koji pravi tu ironicnu distancu prema sistemu itd. A na suprotnoj strani od svega toga je zapravo jedini nacin kako da neko bude zaista suberzivan tj. ne da razvija kriticki potencijal ili tu ironicnu distancu,nego upravo da shvati sistem MNOGO OZBILJNIJE NEGO SHTO SAM SISTEM SEBE SHVATA. I mislim da je to mozda jedan od kljucheva Laibachove strategije.

Jos bi' samo dodao da se ovde moze videti i chuti i cuveni govor Petera Mlakara iz '89 na poslednjem koncertu u beogradskom SKC-u pred raspad SFRJ koji pocinje sa : "Braco Srbi..." a upozorava na porast nacionalizma sirom stare drzave i njegove moguce posledice. Takodje se izmedju ostalog govori i o sukobu izmedju Grchke i BJRM oko imena Makedonija. Skroz bre zanimljivo.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114176/

Entering the NSK state, the “state in time”...
NSK Passport Control

Learn to predict a fire with unerring precision. Then burn down the building to fulfill the prediction.
-- Czeslaw Milosz, Child of Europe
(credit model with KUM tower)

Until 1991 the Western republic of Socialist Yugoslavia, Slovenia's violent secession struck the first spark in the Balkan war which defined the first chapter of the post-cold war era. Using an inventive combination of reportage, dramatization, archival footage, animation and miniatures, Predictions of Fire is a revealing study of the controversial and internationally acclaimed Slovenian arts collective NSK, as seen through the lens of 20th century Central European history. 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.

There is no document of human civilizationwhich is not at the same time a document of barbarism.

-- Walter Benjamin

(the object corridor)

The film won the Canadian Film Board's Best Documentary award at the 1996 Vancouver International Film Festival. The jury issued a statement: "Predictions of Fire is intellectual dynamite. It explodes the icons and myths of communism and capitalism. Out of the shattered history of Slovenia, this film constructs a new way of looking at art, politics, and religion."

The suprematist square and the forms proceeding out of it can be likened to the primitive marks (symbols) of aboriginal man which represented, in their combinations, not ornaments but a feeling of rhythm.

--- Kazimir Malevich
("Entartete Welt" in Congress Square, Ljubljana)

In the early 80's, an industrial rock band named Laibach emerged out of the tiny Yugoslav republic of Slovenia. Incorporating what many took to be fascist imagery in their performances, they shocked this tiny Balkan republic and, after signing a recording contract with London's prestigious Mute Records label, went on to shock the rest of the world as well. Laibach was soon joined by a painting group, Irwin, and theater group, Red Pilot, at the helm of one of the most ambitious and cutting-edge arts collectives in the world. Modeled after a socialist state bureaucracy, and calling themselves Neue Slowenische Kunst (New Slovenian Arts, or NSK), these three groups became the titular heads of a micro-state within the independent republic of Slovenia. NSK recently began issuing its own passports and opened embassies and consulates in Moscow, Berlin, Ghent, Florence, and in the US.

"“This is the Black Square on Red Square!”"
(Joint “Action” by Irwin and Kinetikon Pictures, Moscow, June 6 1992.

The 30-minute Action consisted of unfolding a 22 x 22 meter square of black fabric in the central part of Red Square).

Although Predictions of Fire documents the NSK collective, positioning their work within the history of ex-Yugoslavia, the film emerges as much more than an arts documentary. Predictions of Fire offers surprising insight into the Yugoslav conflict and the ongoing trauma experienced by generations of Eastern Europeans raised in totalitarian regimes. Variety wrote that the film "uses a postmodern, quasi-Godardian sensibility to show how politics invades every facet of artistic creation and how integral ideology is to the understanding of the structure and signification of images... An extremely rich tapestry of historical events and their mythic implications in both art and politics unfolds onscreen."

“"Tribes of Europe! The ground is ready!"”
(Speech by the NSK Department of Pure and Applied Philosophy)

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