Goran Trbuljak

Druga linija aka The Other Line is a product of many years of research of neo-avant-garde cultural and art scene in Novi Sad, Serbia (late 60s and 70s), which has been marginalized until today. This artistic movement was directly connected not only with important art centers of the former Yugoslavia, but also with existing flows of world art during its brief and productive activities (7e Biennale de Paris, 19th Berlinale). The cultural and artistic emancipation of that time had implied individual freedom of expression and strong reaction to established boundaries. This avant-garde movement had become threat to communist establishment, the authors' work were sabotaged, the films were sealed off, five artists were taken to trial, two were sent in prison. How is it that the retrograde mechanism of shutting down and removing the most creative and representative progressive impulses of our surrounding is still so current to this day?

Produced at the Motovun Video Meeting in Croatia, 1989. Screened in retrospective at Alternative Film/Video Belgrade Festival 2014.

A canvas is covered with a conversion filter for camera light (85ND3). Trbuljak has previously experimented with painting without a brush – here, he brings the colour in front of and no longer on the canvas using a material actually intended for camera techniques.

A woman's hands are thumbing through some six hundred drawings of peckers on papers with the title of the measuring tools factory. They are closing and putting away the portfolio. An ironic metaphor of a society in transition.

A woman's hands are thumbing through some six hundred drawings of peckers on papers with the title of the measuring tools factory. They are closing and putting away the portfolio. An ironic metaphor of a society in transition.

Invited by Galerie de Locataires, six artists in Venice with the help of a single camera recorded a diary of the sailing through the Venetian canals - Jean-Pierre Bertrand, Alain Fleisher, Thierry Kuntzel, Michel Snow, Groupe To and Goran Trbuliak. L’air du large is Trbuljak's recording from the boat.

Invited by Galerie de Locataires, six artists in Venice with the help of a single camera recorded a diary of the sailing through the Venetian canals - Jean-Pierre Bertrand, Alain Fleisher, Thierry Kuntzel, Michel Snow, Groupe To and Goran Trbuliak. L’air du large is Trbuljak's recording from the boat.

At one place, where many billboards took turns throughout the year, all of a sudden we witness fast forwarded change of pictures. It is as if the billboard became a movie screen on which may stories have been told. When 'the screening' stops and the movie screen becomes empty, people walk by it. These people, with their life stories could perhaps be more interesting than those on the billboard.

At one place, where many billboards took turns throughout the year, all of a sudden we witness fast forwarded change of pictures. It is as if the billboard became a movie screen on which may stories have been told. When 'the screening' stops and the movie screen becomes empty, people walk by it. These people, with their life stories could perhaps be more interesting than those on the billboard.

A film about a cockroach who is a bad flier, but would so ambitiously want to do it better. Thanks to an amorous, compassionate firefly, he will manage to eventually fly. He lives off the dark and she lives off the light.

A film about a cockroach who is a bad flier, but would so ambitiously want to do it better. Thanks to an amorous, compassionate firefly, he will manage to eventually fly. He lives off the dark and she lives off the light.