LebensraumLivingSpace Ger Duijzings and Rastko Novakovic movies ourmedia lebensraum | living space MiniDV, 80 min, 2009 We started with an anthropologist's personal diary: entries made between March and August 1992 while Ger Duijzings was conducting fieldwork in Yugoslavia. We rendered them from Dutch into English and cut out approximately 24/25ths, keeping an entry for each day. The resulting script is an archive of people and places in dramatic form. We next made a series of negative choices. No studios. The sounds and images would be recorded in actual places and would be records of actual places. No actors. The body of the writer and eyewitness would voice the script: an archive performing an archive. No archive images. The images of the staging would act on shared images from the mass media and would be produced in tension with the script and the place of staging. No single, pure image. Instead, the effort and choices of 11 people producing moving images. The result is an event recorded in 75 minutes during the afternoon of Monday 28th July 2008. Ger Duijzings stepped out of his office at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies and performed a public reading of the script whilst walking the streets of London. He wore two microphones and was followed by 7 video cameras and 2 photographic cameras. Lottie Cantle, Mark Durham, Amanda Egbe, Charles Heller, Vladimir Mitreski, Vlastimir Sudar (assisted by Cat Diehl), Paulo Tavares made video recordings. Aubrey Wanliss-Orlebar and Rastko Novakovic took photographs. Mark Durham was in charge of the sound design and recording. The collected material was edited by Mark Durham, Owen Saward and Rastko Novakovic with suggestions and agreement with the rest of the group. 2009 2009 2010 yugoslavia; london; 1992; ger; duijzings; diary; rastko; novakovic; lebensraum; living space http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/ 2010-04-05 10:35:34 2010-04-05 08:45:24 rastko.novakovic@gmail.com Rastko Novakovic Rastko Novakovic Rastko Novakovic Rastko Novakovic Rastko Novakovic 2010-04-05 10:39:39 2010-04-05 11:49:40 2010-04-05 16:01:58 2011-02-09 08:51:29 2011-02-09 08:55:35 Contact us with comments or if you want to screen the film in public: rastko.novakovic[at]gmail.com For more info see: www.rastko.org.uk To make a DVD: - from the MOVIE FILES table download parts 1-4 from the MPEG2 column on the right hand side - they have to be downloaded one by one and this can take some time - create the folders "VIDEO_TS" and "AUDIO_TS" - copy the files into the folder "VIDEO_TS", leaving the folder "AUDIO_TS" empty - burn DVD with both folders in the root held by the filmmakers Ger Duijzings and Rastko Novakovic English London, 28th July 2008 2011-02-09 08:57:29 Rastko Novakovic