Short film
On the Flies of the Market Place
1999 · 8 min
A dense, essayistic video collage that feels like a lecture-dream, unsettling and cerebral, more to be studied than simply watched.
- Directed by
- Aina Šmid, Marina Gržinić
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Vesna Jevnikar, Pavle Rakovec, Darja Reichman
- Overview
- On the Flies of the Market Place deals with the idea of the European space, divided and sacrificed. In a visually surreal world of facts and emotions—using documents from books and magazines—the video suggests a re-reading of the European space, i.e. Eastern and Western Europe. Referencing history, philosophy (Kant), and art, the video elaborates on the idea of Eastern Europe as the indivisible residua of all European atrocities. Eastern Europe is a piece of shit and the bloody symptom of the political, cultural, and epistemological failures of the 20th century.
- How it feels
- Slow-burning and demanding.
- About
- Politics, power, war, violence
- Content
- Mild violence and language. No gore or sexual content.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Aina Šmid, Marina Gržinić
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Vesna Jevnikar, Pavle Rakovec, Darja Reichman
