Dolžina: 09' 23''
Format: PAL DVD, color, 2010
Short clip from movie:
The film is trying to expose the absurdity of the regime that European Union is imposing on migrant population.
I wanted to manifest the absurdity of certain relations that are being forced upon individuals to partake in them. My work is the reaction to the relations of inequality, to unequal distribution of power that is being historically reproduced through the domination of power relations on both national and global level.
In the film I tried to join the selected footages from different sources reflecting on the idea of democracy of European neo-liberal system. The footages are taken from the National Archive of Radio and Television of Slovenia. I was collecting the archive documentation from media reports on migrant questions taken from 2001-2008.
Directing, editing: Nika Autoagesr
Footages: RTV Slovenija
Production:
- IRZU Institute for sonic arts research
The film pair Report on the state of the asylum policy in the Republic of Slovenia from January 2008 to August 2009 and Postcards by Nika Autor critically deconstructs the dominant discourse of the asylum and migration policy, lucidly pointing to the principles of exclusion behind it. The films are a reflection upon discourses that legitimise the modus of the disciplining practices which regulate the social situation of asylum seekers, constructing their subjectivity and identities. Further, they point to marginalization and discrimination. From a completely different perspective, Nika Autor legitimises exactly what the dominant regime of representation has hidden and supplanted, revealing that what has been concealed from us is the practice of segregation. Her breaking down of how the social hegemony is inscribed into the regime of representation allows her to crucially transform the existing discourse of the asylum policy. This of course meaning that what is taken apart is the stereotypical representation since a stereotype is regarded as a crucial point of legitimating subjection and preclusion. And this is where the point of resistance comes into play, pointing to mechanisms of power and control and unveiling the ruptures in the dominant construction of reality. By unearthing the hegemonic paradigm, Nika Author seeks to show what failed to be represented and what remained unseen and omitted. Representation therefore is not a politically neutral event, for it legitimises distinctively its object of vision, functioning simultaneously as a social practice the narrative of which is clearly connected to the territory of power, interests and politics.
Ljubljana, 5. 5. 2010 Sergej Kapus