STATEMENT
C.V.
VIDEOGRAPHY
- Art video, Music video
PROJECTS
- Performances and video installation
- Music compilations
- Comics and texts
- Festivals and screenings

STATEMENT

Media Teror is an independent production unit which operates without state subsidy, sponsors or patrons. In a banal way Media Teror Vision terrorises dumbstruck viewers, it endeavours to bring them to their senses regardless of their own wishes. Using the medium of video and accompanying music it intervenes aggressively in the spectator; it does not ask, but criticises and demands that he/she finally makes a change within his/her view of the world. Media Teror Vision is not the passive screening of moving pictures offering pure delight of the consumer society, but the anarchistic terror of blasting fiction into the head of the viewer. The human animal deserves it, for its deeds prove it unworthy of anything better. Nevertheless, with a single push on the remote control they can easily change channel and escape to POP TV. And everything in their heads will return to its former state ... or maybe not ...

C.V.

Born on 14 December 1965 in Ljubljana. He finished schooling at the Secondary School of Graphics in 1983. Since 1982 he has been involved in video, music, set design, comics and literature. He has been active within Forum Ljubljana, and is since 1989 a member of Strip Core group. In 1995 he founded Media Teror Vision video production unit.


www.ljudmila.org/scca/stripcore/

VIDEOGRAPHY: Art video

KRIZA / CRISIS
U-matic, V.S. Video / ŠKUC-Forum, Ljubljana 1989, 3'
Script & Dir Rok Sieberer
Camera David Kržišnik, Alenka Marsenič, Jani Mujić, Dario Seraval, Boris Garb, Igor Dolinar
Music Rok Sieberer
Edit Boris Garb
Cast Kuri
Obdelava zvoka: Mirko Bučan, Borut Kržišnik

Kuri, the actor in the video, faces the aggression of the TV medium. He compares the images of himself to media information, he yields to their influence; the multiplication of information brings him to a crisis.

KURI KOMPILACIJA / THE CURI COMPILATION
VHS, V.S.Đ.V., Ljubljana 1991, 35'
Author Rok Sieberer
Music Slavc & Dominik duo, Yello, Henry Rollins, Lou Reed ...
The actors are members of the Hard-Core Collective, musicians, artists, friends, more or less familiar figures from the street ...

The Kuri Compilation combines several humorous short video clips: Crisis, Yello Party, Ljubljana Trafik, Art Evening, Bonfire, Rollins, Crime-Criminal Story, The Koncilija Portrait, and Grandma's Robbery. An interview with a street newsvendor, city traffic, 'family' video in nature, video burlesque, criminal story featuring toys.

BOMBO OB 12 H/ A BOMB AT NOON
Commodore, Super VHS, Media Teror, Ljubljana 1995, 3' 22''
Script & Dir Rok Sieberer
Camera Igor Dolinar, Rok Sieberer
Glasba Music Rok Sieberer
Edit Rok Sieberer
Cast Mladen Kočiš, Kuri
Anim Rok Sieberer
Technical assistance Mirko Simić, Boris Garb, V.S. Video / Forum Ljubljana

One of the typical features of the author is the use of non-professional technology to show everyday reality. On the basis of daily reality he aims to form conclusions pointing to the insanity of modern man. Perhaps a solution cannot be reached merely through an artistic attitude, but rather through radical activity.

DOBRODOŠLI / WELCOME
Commodore, Super VHS, Media Teror, Ljubljana 1996, 5' 30''
Author Rok Sieberer
Music Mirko Bučan
Anim Rok Sieberer
Technical assistance V. S. Video / Forum Ljubljana

Welcome is a short experimental video film which combines computer graphics and video image. The resulting new picture produces a new and different vision and meaning. The product of metamorphosis leaves the viewer with his/her own understanding of the work.

 

VIVISEKCIJA / VIVISECTION
Super VHS, Media Teror, Ljubljana 1997, 2'
Author Rok Sieberer
Technical assistance V.S. Video / Forum Ljubljana
Vivisection... the title tells us all.
Media Teror Chroma Qart Mix
Super VHS, Media Teror, Ljubljana 1997, 50'
Author Rok Sieberer
Music Rok Sieberer, Consolidated, Senser,...
Technical assistance V.S. Video / Forum Ljubljana

The video collage has a firm structure defined in the scenario. Several videos with different basic messages, accompanied by wild and loud music, are combined into a peculiar, but unique story (A Bomb at Noon, Welcome, Chroma Qart Mix, Vivisection).

MEDIA TEROR CHROMA QART MIX
VHS, Media Teror, Ljubljana 1997, 50'
Author Rok Sieberer
Music Rok Sieberer, Consolidated, Senser, ...
Technical assistance V.S. Video / Forum Ljubljana

The video represents formal research into the space of the television screen. The artist walks along the lower edge of the screen. When he reaches the side edge, he begins to walk upwards, defying the rules of gravity. In the upper edge, the motion of turning onto the new edge is repeated. Rather than maintaining an upright position, the actor stands on his hands, and then shoves himself off the screen. The intense physical effort is evident in his body.

MEDIA TEROR CHROMA QART MIX II
VHS, Media Teror, Ljubljana 1998, 3'
Author Rok Sieberer
Technical assistance V.S. Video / Forum Ljubljana

A short video collage.

MEDIA TEROR CHROMA QART MIX III
VHS, Media Teror, Ljubljana 1998, 7'
Author Rok Sieberer
Technical assistance V.S. Video / Forum Ljubljana

A short video collage as a conclusion of the trilogy.

Music video

Za tebe
III. Kategorija, U-matic, FV Video/ŠKUC-Forum, 1984, 5'

Hočem stran
III. Kategorija, U-matic, FV Video/ŠKUC-Forum, 1984, 5'

Parada
III. Kategorija, U-matic, FV Video/ŠKUC-Forum, 1985, 5'

PROJECTS

 

Performances and video installations

1988
Izganjanje zime, Ljubljana, KUD France Prešeren

1996
The Drug of the Natyon (with 2227, Fourklor, etc.), Ljubljana, Lutkovno gledališče > Copenhagen, Kronborg
Chroma Qart Mix, Ljubljana, KUD France Prešeren

Music compilations

1983
Stres D. A. (Kaj je alternativa?), Galerija ŠKUC, Ljubljana 1983

1984
EP Made in Balkan, Ljubljana 1984

1985
III. Kategorija, Ljubljana 1985
Hard - Core Ljubljana, FV Video, Ljubljana 1985

1986
Here is No Reason to be Happy, D, Ljubljana 1986


Comics and texts

1988
Erotične zgodbe, Vrnitev odpisanih, No. 6, Ljubljana 1988

1992
Abludni, Stripburger, No. 1, Forum, Ljubljana 1992
Bonuel, Stripburger, No. 1, Forum, Ljubljana 1992
I Love You, Stripburger, No.1, Forum, Ljubljana 1992
Nenavadni pripetljaji, Stripburger, No. 2, Forum, Ljubljana 1992 > Slovenski strip, Zavod za kulturne prireditve, Celje 1996

1996
Eko - Hans, Stripburger, No. 9, Forum, Ljubljana 1996
Linija najmanšega odpora, Stripburger, No. 10, Forum, Ljubljana 1996
Jessijeve zgodbe: futuristični roman, Forum, Ljubljana 1996

1998
Danes VS 2000 leto, Stripburger, No. 19, Forum, Ljubljana 1998
Ten after Midnight, Stripburger, No. 20, Forum, Ljubljana 1998

 

Festivals and screenings

1985
LP Hard Core Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Mladinski center Zgornja Šiška -- Iskanje izgubljenega časa, Ljubljana, Galerija ŠKUC

1988
Izganjanje zime, Ljubljana, KUD France Prešeren (exhibition & performance)

1989
Alternative film video, Belgrade, Akademski filmski centar, Dom kulture Studentski grad

1990
Pre-stab Festival, Eindhoven, 2B -- Kriza, Ljubljana, Klub K4 (premiere)

1992
Furti d'autore, Trieste -- Stripburger, Ljubljana, Klub K4 (exhibition) -- Projekt 92, Ljubljana, KUD France Prešeren (graffiti exhibition) -- Razstava grafitov Strip Cora, Ljubljana, Klub K4 > Filozofska fakulteta

1993
De Slovenen komen, Venlo, OOC Peron 55 -- Razstava stripov iz Stripburgerja in okrogla miza o stripu, Ljubljana, Galerija ŠOU Kapelica

1994
Razstava stripov iz Stripburgerja, Maribor, Novinarski klub >
Ilirska Bistrica, Galerija Hodnik na mlin

1995
Festival der Nationen, Ebensee, Kino Ebensee -- Kontra - Dibidon, Belgrade, Kino Rex -- Razstava stripov ob 6. obletnici delovanja Strip Cora, Ljubljana, Slovensko mladinsko gledališče -- Forbidden Fruits of Civil Society, Utrecht, Sophia's palace -- Strip & Sound Festival, Skopje, Muzejot grad Skopje > Ljubljana, Metelkova - Channel Zero

1996
Perspektiva nula, Celje, Pop teater -- Ekoburger, Nova Gorica -- Festival der Nationen, Ebensee, Kino Ebensee -- Bataviale - international video festival in der Europa, Passau

1997
Študentski kulturni dnevi, Ljubljana, Metelkova, Gala Hala -- Mizzart klub, Ljubljana, Metelkova, Pešaki -- Video rov, Ljubljana, Galerija Škuc > Idrija, KIC > Maribor, Kibla

1998
3. festival neodvisnega filma in videa Slovenije, Ljubljana -- Ex-YU, Belgrade, Cinema Rex -- Poletja ne damo, Pivka, Klub študentov -- Strip Core v Velenju, Velenje, Mladinski center -- Teater za vogalom, Maribor, Pekarna -- Iskanje izgubljenega časa, 15 let Forumove video produkcije, Maribor, Pekarna > Koper, Mladinski kulturni center > Postojna, Mladinski kulturni delovni center > Črnomelj, Mladinski kulturni klub > Železniki, Kulturno društvo Rov > Krško, Atrij Valvasorjeve hiše