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Art is an old woman called Elle. She moves, straight as a die and gracefully through strangely coloured landscapes and reminisces. She recalls the turbulent, inspired days of the avant-garde, the beginnings of modernism and of her childhood many thousands of years in the past. These episodes alternate with a psychiatrist’s documentary account of the life of a lonely, tragic woman: Elle, a rich collector of art, books and jewelry. In some ways, this video is a sequel to ‘Intolerance’ and ‘Autobus’; it too digs into the past and the same woman appears. As well as being a collector, the main character is also a metaphor for Art and thus, entirely in keeping with tradition, the embodiment of Life. Unfortunately, ‘The sand collectors’ overreaches itself in Art with a capital A. This is particularly evident in a scene in which a voice-over makes heavily cliche-ed pronouncements like “The basis of an aesthetic act is a pure idea” and “An artist is a creator, a god”. I beg your pardon? I thought that we had put these 19th century mystifications behind us a long time ago. The video would probably have been better without all that heaviness. What would then be left would be a wonderfully layered work in which much is left to the intelligence and associative capabilities of the viewer.
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Regie Neven Korda, scenario Zemira Alakbegovi}c, Camera Zeljko Ivancic, Light Dragan Zver, Vito Borenovic, Editing Neven Korda, Sound, Music Aldo Ivancic, Voice Alexander Brown, Singer Alexander Brown, Sasa Vajd, make-up, Costumes One Fiction Factory, Decors Tadej Tozon, Choreography Petra Pikalo, With Damjana Grasic, Majolka Suklje, Katjusa Kovacic, Production V.S. Video Forum Ljubljana, TVS Arts Programme
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