FeKK OFF: Lost World / How to live?
the programme is presented with the help of slovene film archive and slovenian film center.
The world of archival footage is a world that no longer exists. The short documentary, narrative, and animated films of the fifties, sixties, and seventies show a time of the blossoming Yugoslavian ideal, of Yugofuturism, different path into future. It was a time of increasing openness and liberalisation of the political, economic, public, and cultural life, new music and cinematic genres and pop culture, a time of expansion of various artistic styles, of saving money to build a (holiday) house, of buying TVs and cars, time of all-affordable tourism, of modernised holidaying and postcards with warm greetings.
The generation that survived and started rebuilding the world anew thought that it had invented new values and new courage to oppose the old ones, although it actually never could get quite rid of them. Not just later, at the time of their descendants, but already then by being partially unaware of the doubt aimed at the new world, the world of liberation, and emancipation from social and personal constraints. Alongside hope, these films display doubts, fear of new technologies, environmental and social changes, even the contradictory fear of a finally different ways of living and doing things, and perhaps even of loving differently.
Therefore, films were made. These educate and enlighten their audiences, instruct them on a way of life and poetically convey the actual world. The filmmakers filled their films with not only fears, but also hopes and desires more universal than the external circumstances of the historic moment they were made in. They speak of the desires to explore and understand the world above and below the sea level or skies, about the desires to connect and form meaningful bonds, and about finding someone special for oneself.
The images of the world shown in this year’s Slovene Film Archive program seem no more than remains unconnected to the present reality. However, is that honestly so? Perhaps the society that occasionally appears to be no less than pre-apocalyptic could benefit from the images imbued with idealism that had been brought about by the new peace, social order and justice, new rights and privileges, and new socially-beneficial technologies in order to remind us of what we long for now.
Tina Poglajen
Anno 3003
Ivo Lehpamer, Yugoslavia, animation, 1962, 11’
Ten Minutes to Twelve
France Kosmač, Yugoslavia, fiction, 1961, 13‘
Nama
Yugoslavia, commercial, 1961, 1’
A Small Cloud Among Big Ones
France Kosmač, Yugoslavia, documentary, 1962, 12'
The Last of the Pedestrians
Jože Bevc, Yugoslavia, fiction, 1970, 11’
The Secret
Zvone Sintič, Yugoslavia, fiction, 1959, 16'
The Secrets of the Adriatic
Marijan Pfeifer, Yugoslavia, documentary, 1958, 11’
The Steps of Love
Marko Sajko, Yugoslavia, documentary, 1971, 14’