Nord Cross Production
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15 Jun 2019
13 Jul 2019
The opening of the exhibition Forbidden Whispers. Laibach and North Korea, organised by Photon Gallery, featuring a concert by Laibach and the documentary Music is the Art of Time 3, LP film Laibach, directed by Igor Zupe (attending) and produced by Nord Cross Production, in the frame of Summer at MCA,
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5 Jun 2019
7 Jun 2019
The screenings of the documentaries Music is the Art of Time 3, LP film Laibach and Music is the Art of Time 1, LP film Pankrti - No Fun, music videos for Laibach, and excerpts from the film Bachelors, all directed by Igor Zupe (attending), and Music is the Art of Time 2, LP film Buldozer - Spit Truth Into the Eyes, directed by Varja Močnik, all produced by Nord Cross Production, supported by the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Buenos Aires,
at the AL ESTE Film Festival
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18 Jan 2019
25 Jan 2019
The screenings of Erased, directed by Miha Mazzini and Dušan Joksimović, produced by Gustav Film and co-produced by PAKT Media, in the Competition Programme (Italian premiere); the documentary Music is the Art of Time 3, LP film Laibach, directed by Igor Zupe (attending) and produced by Nord Cross Production; the documentary Greetings From Free Forests, directed by Ian Soroka; Spare Parts, directed by Damjan Kozole (E-motion Film) in the Wind of Change retrospective; No Man's Land, co-produced by Casablanca Productions and Studio Maj; and Don't Forget To Breathe, directed by Martin Turk and produced by Bela Film Ltd in the This Is IT section;
at the Trieste Film Festival
Zupe's earliest NSK-affiliated work was a short documentary film, Lepota in narod (Beauty and the Nation, 1986), produced as part of his studies at AGRFT. This was an attempt to embody the Irwin group's concept of the Heimat film and explore how film symbolism can present and explore notions of home and homeland. Zupe provided a more extended, retrospective meditation on the group's work in Ženini (Bachelors, 2008), co-produced by RTV Slovenia and Studio Maj, which followed the artists as they exhibited their work around Europe between 2003 and 2007. Podgoršek's connections with NSK have been more explicitly with Laibach. In 2005 he directed Divided States of America, a documentary record of Laibach's 2004 North American tour, and has, over the years, become more or less the in-house director of Laibach's music videos.
Nord Cross productions
The films explicitly produced by Zupe under the Nord Cross banner continue to focus on art and music. The first of these, It's Alive (1997), was a record of Laibach's NATO tour in North America and the opening of the virtual NSK embassy in Sarajevo. Time for a New State (2013), produced in collaboration with Irwin, documented the first congress of NSK State citizens in Berlin, while Music is the Art of Time 3 (2018) addressed Laibach's hugely controversial 1985 debut album, and won the audience award for best music film at the 2018 Soundwatch Berlin Music Film Festival.
See also