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{{Article
| status       = FERTIK
| maintainer   = Ziga Brdnik
}}
{{Infobox
| name                = Antara
| localname           = Antara SoundFilm & Video d.o.o.
| street              = Barjanska cesta 52
| town                = SI-1000 Ljubljana
| telephone           = 386 (0) 1 423 1407
| email               = antara@antara.si
| website             = http://andrejzdravic.com
| contacts            = 
{{Contact
| name                = Andrej Zdravič
| roke                = Artist
| email               = soundfilm@andrejzdravic.com
}}
{{Contact
| name                = Marjola Zdravič
| roke                = Manager
}}
}}


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[[Antara]] is a small, non-profit company with art cinema and sound production as its main interest. Since [[established::1995]], Antara has produced a number of films by internationally acclaimed independent film maker and sound artist [[Andrej Zdravič]], whose works, since 1973, have focused on the energies and spiritual aspects of natural phenomena. Zdravič received the [[Metod Badjura Award]] for lifetime achievement at the [[Festival of Slovenian Film]] 2019 in Portorož.

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== Video installations ==
Zdravič's multi-monitor video installation ''Secrets of Soča &ndash; Time Horizon'' represented Slovenia at World Expo '98, Lisbon and has been, since 1995, a permanent exhibit at the [[Trenta Lodge TNP Information Centre and Museum]]. His ''Ocean Lava-Time Horizon'' installation represented Slovenia at the Venice Biennale 1999.

Since September 2011 the [[Trenta Lodge TNP Information Centre and Museum]] has featured also Zdravič's recent film installation ''The Forest - Time Triptych''.

''Water Waves'', a 7-channel video and audio installation by Andrej Zdravič is on permanent view at Exploratorium in San Francisco, USA, since 2013.


== Films ==
Andrej Zdravič's film ''Riverglass'' (1997, 41') was screened in over 80 venues in 22 countries around the world &ndash; among others at the Bienal del Fin del Mundo, Sao Paulo, Brazil; at 48C Public Art Ecology Festival in New Delhi; in Zdravič's Film Retrospective at Antholgy Film Archives, New York, 2008; as well as on ARTE television and elsewhere. 

''Riverglass'' received a number of awards, including the [[Prešeren Award and Prešeren Foundation Awards|Prešeren Fund Award]], and was discussed in several books, among others in ''Framing the World &ndash; Explorations in Ecocriticism and Film'', edited by Paula Willoquet-Maricondi, 2010. In 2013 ''Riverglass'' was exhibited as part of the ''One Sixth of the Earth: Ecologies of Image'' at ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art in Karlsruhe, Germany.

Andrej Zdravič presented his ''Ocean Cantos'' film installation at the Alfred Ehrhardt Stiftung in Berlin, Germany in 2017.

== External links ==
*[http://andrejzdravic.com Andrej Zdravič's website]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrej_Zdravič Andrej Zdravič on Wikipedia]
* [http://www.ikonotv.art/special/481800/OCEAN-CANTOS.html ''Ocean Cantos'' on Ikonotv.art]
*[http://www.videodokument.org/zdravic/zdravic.htm Andrej Zdravič] on [[Videodokument.org]]
*[https://www.villagevoice.com/2008/11/19/the-films-of-andrej-zdravic-at-anthology/ On the Anthology Film Archives in Village Voice]
*[http://www.fsf.si/2019/en/metod-badjura-lifetime-achievement-award/ Metod Badjura Lifetime Achiviement Award]


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