Ema Kugler
No. 36
"Hydra"
Artist: Ema Kugler
Title: Hydra
Duration: 00:15:45
Year: 1993
Genre: Art Film / Art video
Production: V.S. Video, Forum Ljubljana, VPK

 
SYNOPSIS

Mythology in the video works by Ema Kugler is inscribed in rituals of everyday life; this time it is the theme of Hydra with many facets. The theme is represented by the separate scenes featuring human figures in leather costumes (created by the artist herself) that constrain their movements, thus emphasizing their separation from nature. The last trace of their respective connection is shown in a ritual relationship between a man and a bull, although even this relationship involves man's deeply ingrained cruelty towards animals. But even this connection ends with the blood that symbolically floods the video image. (Source: Videodokument)


 
OTHER WORKS
Ema Kugler - Man with Shadow
Ema Kugler - Man with Shadow (01:40)
Production: ZANK & VPK, 2019
The genetic code forces man in reproduction. A newborn has no choice. Without her/his will, it is sorted to this world and as a completely helpless creature in the dressage of civilizational norms, which are determined by those in the position of power ... Bu...
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Ema Kugler - For the End of Time (02:05:28)
Production: Zank & VPK, 2009
The video film is an investigation on man and his smallness in front of nature and time, the story is told by a voice-over narrator, with no dialogues between the characters. The camera slowly moves horizontally in panoramic views showing bright wide dese...
Ema Kugler - Le Grand MacabreEma Kugler - Le Grand MacabreEma Kugler - Le Grand Macabre
Ema Kugler - Le Grand Macabre (01:40:44)
Production: ZANK / Ljudmila, 2005
Experimental video is made after sound recording of Le Grand Macabre opera, recorded live at the Parisian Theatre du Chatelet in fabruary 1998, performed by London Sinfonietta Voices Philharmonic Orchestra. Composer György Ligeti, avant-gardist of th...
Ema Kugler - PhantomEma Kugler - PhantomEma Kugler - Phantom
Ema Kugler - Phantom (87:45)
Production: Zavod ZANK / VPK, Cankarjev dom, RTV Slovenija, 2003
»The Phantom« is a film about death that does not ask, »Who am I?«, but »Have I ever really been there ... in my life? Have I ever really lived? Wasn’t everything just an illusion, an illusion of a false existence? Is i...
Ema Kugler - Homo ErectusEma Kugler - Homo ErectusEma Kugler - Homo Erectus
Ema Kugler - Homo Erectus (00:43:28)
Production: ZANK, VPK, Cankarjev dom , 2000
This video features no words, only music and images. Ema Kugler describes the moving images as: “They are like a dark, surrealist dance of everyman with his own death. I have seen all these images. They came from the darkness of my subconsciousness,...
Ema Kugler - MenhirEma Kugler - MenhirEma Kugler - Menhir
Ema Kugler - Menhir (00:35:16)
Production: Forum Ljubljana, VPK & TV Slovenija, 1999
Urbanity is finally erased with mythological rituals, which is defined by the title of the video film: menhir, a large upright standing stone from the Neolithic Period which was used in sacred rituals. A man and a woman are Adam and Eve who are formed bef...
Ema Kugler - Station 25Ema Kugler - Station 25Ema Kugler - Station 25
Ema Kugler - Station 25 (00:30:08)
Production: Forum Ljubljana & VPK, 1997
The artist continues with her main preoccupations: the relationship between a man and a woman, the irruption of the mythical into the rituals of everyday life. The video film uses the numerous potentials of electronic manipulation of the picture. The fine...
Ema Kugler - TaigaEma Kugler - TaigaEma Kugler - Taiga
Ema Kugler - Taiga (00:08:22)
Production: Forum Ljubljana & VPK, 1996
Video Taiga is made after eponymous performance carried out at the international festival of contemporary arts City of women in October 1995 in Ljubljana. The viewer enters a dark atmosphere, dictated by dramatic vocal-electronic music, threatening anthro...
Ema Kugler - The VisitorEma Kugler - The VisitorEma Kugler - The Visitor
Ema Kugler - The Visitor (00:26:41)
Production: V.S. Video / Forum Ljubljana, VPK & Viba film, 1995
The artist insists on the duality of human nature: the same dreadfulness is part of both the mythical and the real world. The duality is explicitly presented by means of electronic effects that can petrify a human face, or wall-up a human body in a few se...
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Ema Kugler, Nada Vodušek, Jane Štravs - Nostalgični izrez (00:07:56)
Production: Marijan Osole - Max, CD, 1985
A collage of fashion creations from a fashion show set in Cankarjev dom starts off as if browsing through a trendy Fashion magazine. Models wearing leather clothes are accompanied by Italian, Yugoslav and American pop music from the 60'. We can also...
 
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TV Slovenija, 1997
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Hribernik, Jasna - Ballabende (00:21:46)
TV Slovenija, 1995
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Hribernik, Jasna - Hiša nasprotij / Ho... (00:20:17)
TV Slovenija, 1998
Prosenc, Nataša - Disk / Disc
Prosenc, Nataša - Disk / Disc (00:02:57)
TV Slovenija, 1995
Štravs, Jane - Jane Štravs
Štravs, Jane - Jane Štravs (00:05:30)
ATV, 1987
Kovačič, Marko  - No More Heroes Any More
Kovačič, Marko - No More Heroes Any M... (0:18:15)
V.S. VIDEO/Forum Ljubljan..., 1992
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