Ana Nuša Dragan

The creation of video poetry: a scale of sequences shaped by René Magritte’s painting as a lyrical excess of the real world and the Macedonian landscape and architecture with distinct ethnographic dimensions.

Because of and So are the first short films by the artist: silent black and white 2x8mm films. They were created based on her interest in film and at the same time her study of psychology and pedagogy.

A feminist film that deals with women's service jobs through an editing structure including the job of a telephone operator.

A woman's body communicates with its surroundings; it is a receptor of the macrocosm that bears traces of all other laws, including even the physiology with all its energetic zones. This is the energy that corresponds to spiritual experiences, which also depend on the body technique. The communicability can be understood, among other things, as one of the variations of the functioning of the body within the sequential regime of signs.

After early silent black-and-white short films, this is the author's first more experimental film. She shot it during the summer film school in Koper in 1968. It is already sound and colorful and also shows various expressive procedures and also greater knowledge of editing. At that time, she and her colleague Tone Rački were in charge of film education at the Pionirski dom in Ljubljana, where they had a camera and 8mm films, and it was also possible to edit them.