Naprej v preteklost

Forward in the Past, Forth in the Past
  • Short Animated-Fiction Video Film
  • 10'
art, experimental, video-art
  • 1995
  • Slovenia

Synopsis

The main expressive means still remains the chroma-key effect, but the fine art sophistication of the 'background' is evermore perfected. This video is based on a monologue of a professor of archaeology from the 23rd century, explaining to his promising student about an archaeological site inhabited by 'plastoses', a sort of monstrous toys e.g. a rhinoceros with Barbie's head - illustrating the cu

The main expressive means still remains the chroma-key effect, but the fine art sophistication of the 'background' is evermore perfected. This video is based on a monologue of a professor of archaeology from the 23rd century, explaining to his promising student about an archaeological site inhabited by 'plastoses', a sort of monstrous toys e.g. a rhinoceros with Barbie's head - illustrating the current fetish of kitsch. There remain some traces of performance in the video, supplemented with digital animation. The artist constantly constructs new settings, designed to the minutest detail in his studio, where the heroes of the video move in all directions by means of the chroma key procedure.

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