Engaged Documentary Cinema in Independent Slovenia

Andrej Šprah

doi:10.26881/pan.2023.30.06

Autor

Andrej Šprah University of Ljubljana https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1935-5421

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26881/pan.2023.30.06

Słowa kluczowe:

Slovenian documentary cinema, engaged documentary, essayistic documentary, found footage, documentary ethics, political landscape films, Newsreel Front

Abstrakt

The essay discusses engaged documentary cinema in independent Slovenia. It focuses on the aspects of political engagement that address the deprived, underprivileged or oppressed communities and groups in contemporary Slovenian society. In the most unenviable position among them are members of the Roma community, the administratively erased inhabitants stripped of all their civil rights, exploited seasonal workers, representatives of the LGBTQIA+ community and the like. The discussion devotes its main attention to the operation of the informal collective Newsreel Front and its latest project “If the Forests Could Talk, They Would Dry Up with Sadness”, which documents the tragic situation of the refugees on the so-called “Balkan route” and their attempts at crossing the border between Croatia and Slovenia, fenced off with a razor wire.

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