Predictions of Fire

Predictions of Fire or Prerokbe ognja 1996 is a documentary film by American filmmaker Michael Benson about the Neue Slowenische Kunst.

The film won the National Film Board of Canadas Best Documentary Award at the 1996 Vancouver International Film Festival. The jury issued a statement Predictions of Fire is intellectual dynamite. It explodes the icons and myths of communism and capitalism. Out of the shattered history of Slovenia, this film constructs a new way of looking at art, politics, and religion.In the early 1980s, an industrial rock band named Laibach emerged from SR Slovenia, a Yugoslav constituent republic. Incorporating what many took to be fascist imagery in their performances, they shocked this small Balkan republic and, after signing a recording contract with Londons prestigious Mute Records label, went on to shock the rest of the world as well. Laibach was soon joined by a painting group, IRWIN, and theater group, Scipion Nasice Sisters Theatre, at the helm of one of the most ambitious and cuttingedge arts collectives in the world. Modeled after a socialist state bureaucracy, and calling themselves Neue Slowenische Kunst New Slovenian Arts, or NSK, these three groups became the titular heads of a microstate within the independent republic of Slovenia. NSK recently began issuing its own passports and opened embassies and consulates in Moscow, Berlin, Ghent, Florence, and in the US. ........

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