Newsreel 670 – Red Forests
Red Forests is a film poem that rethinks the razor wire laid in the fields and forests along the EU’s borders. Those forests have inscribed in them different histories of secret shelters, refuge and practices of solidarity.
A film poem on the razor wire along the European Union’s borders since 2015. Light, flexible, cheap, aggressive and brutally effective, it encroaches on human lives while producing the greatest effects of control. The film rethinks the forests along those lines – as geographical, natural and political spaces that bear histories of clandestine refuge and solidarity across different contexts and eras.
SCREENINGS
Friday 6 November 18:30 (Between Film and Art 1)
Programme section(s): Between Film and Art
Original title: Obzornik 670 – Rdeči gozdovi | Year: 2022 | Runtime: 16′
Country: Slovenia | Language: – | Subtitles: English
Director: Nika Autor | Production: Newsreel Front | Cinematography: Jošt Franko, Nika Autor | Editing: Nika Autor | Music: Dirty Three – Deep Waters | Translation: Tamara Soban, Maja Lovrenov
FESTIVALS & AWARDS (SELECTION)
MG+MSUM, Ljubljana, 2022 – World Premiere | Crossing Europe, Linz, 2022 | Subversive Festival, Zagreb, 2023 | Slovenska Kinoteka, Ljubljana, 2024 | Doc Fortnight, MoMA, 2024 | Columbia University, New York, 2024 | Triennial of Contemporary Art in Slovenia, 2024 | Cukrarna Gallery, Ljubljana, 2024 | Austrian Film Museum, 2025 | Field Recordings, Rotterdam, 2026
DIRECTOR’S BIO
Nika Autor is part of the collective Newsreel Front (Obzorniška Fronta). Her artistic practice is primarily based on experimental video and documentary film, film essays, and spatial video installations. Her work deals with migration policies, workers’ rights, and the politics of memory.
She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana and finished her practice-based PhD at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Her work has been exhibited in various international museums, galleries and festivals such as Jeu de Paume Paris, MAXXI Rome, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, ARS Electronica, TIFF, JEUNJ Korea, Viennale and others. Nika represented Slovenia at the Venice Biennale in 2017 and was the winner of the Found Footage Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2018.
