Post-Socialism+Retro Avantgarde+Irwin

Post-Socialism+Retro Avantgarde+Irwin

22 mins | Documentary, TV Movie | Sept. 3, 1997

After the fall of the Berlin wall, much changed in Yugoslavia, that is now ex-Yugoslavia; a post industrial, post modern, post national, post colonial, post structural society, that can be perhaps summarized in the concept of post socialism? The disintegration of the concept of ideology means that notions are no longer clear. Because we think that we are outside an ideological context, but perhaps we ourselves are the centre of the ideology. It is this idea that corresponds with the thoughts about post socialism in the nineties, and probably the post ideological society of late capitalism as well. The end of the ideological period then perhaps seems imminent. These thoughts are considered in this philosophical media reflection, based on documentary fragments, statements by Peter Weibel and Slavoj Zizek and the works of three artists: Mladen Stilinovic (Zagreb), "Kasimir Malevich" (pseudonym, Belgrade) and IRWIN (Ljubljana).

Post-Socialism+Retro Avantgarde+Irwin

22 mins | Documentary, TV Movie | Sept. 3, 1997

Post-Socialism+Retro Avantgarde+Irwin
After the fall of the Berlin wall, much changed in Yugoslavia, that is now ex-Yugoslavia; a post industrial, post modern, post national, post colonial, post structural society, that can be perhaps summarized in the concept of post socialism? The disintegration of the concept of ideology means that notions are no longer clear. Because we think that we are outside an ideological context, but perhaps we ourselves are the centre of the ideology. It is this idea that corresponds with the thoughts about post socialism in the nineties, and probably the post ideological society of late capitalism as well. The end of the ideological period then perhaps seems imminent. These thoughts are considered in this philosophical media reflection, based on documentary fragments, statements by Peter Weibel and Slavoj Zizek and the works of three artists: Mladen Stilinovic (Zagreb), "Kasimir Malevich" (pseudonym, Belgrade) and IRWIN (Ljubljana).
Producers RTV Slovenija
Original title Postsocializem+Retroavantgarda+Irwin
Directors Aina Šmid, Marina Gržinić
Writers Aina Šmid, Marina Gržinić

Cast

Milena Zupančič

as The Woman

Jernej Šugman

as The Man

Slavoj Žižek

as Himself

Peter Weibel

as Himself