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| founded by          = Igor Zupe, Sašo Podgoršek
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[[Nord Cross Production]] is a film and video production company founded in [[established:: 2000]] by directors and screenwriters [[Igor Zupe]] and [[Sašo Podgoršek]], who first met as students at [[Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television (AGRFT)|UL AGRFT]] in Ljubljana in the mid-1980s. They have since produced and directed numerous documentaries, music videos, art films and commercials, although by no means all of this work has arisen under the Nord Cross banner, which is carried by Zupe alone, as much a pseudonym as a name directly attached to this or that project. The two directors are perhaps best known for their long-standing association with [[NSK State | Neue Slowenische Kunst]] (NSK), which has yielded a number of important documents on the careers of [[Laibach]] and [[Irwin]] in particular.
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Zupe's earliest NSK-affiliated work was a short documentary film, ''Lepota in narod'' (Beauty and the Nation, 1986), produced as part of his studies at UL AGRFT. This was an attempt to embody the Irwin group's concept of the ''Heimat'' film and explore how film symbolism might address notions of home and homeland. Zupe provided a more extended, retrospective meditation on the group's work in ''Ženini'' (Bachelors, 2008), co-produced by [[Radio-Television Slovenia (RTV Slovenia)|RTV Slovenia ]] and [[Studio Maj]], which followed the artists as they exhibited their work around Europe between 2003 and 2007. Podgoršek's connections with NSK have been more directly with Laibach. In 2005 he directed ''Divided States of America'', a documentary record of Laibach's 2004 North American tour, and has, over the years, become more or less the in-house director of Laibach's music videos.

The films produced by Zupe explicitly under the Nord Cross banner have continued to focus on art and music. The first of these, ''It's Alive'' (1997), was a record of Laibach's ''NATO'' tour in North America and the opening of the virtual NSK embassy in Sarajevo. ''Čas za novo državo'' (Time for a New State) (2013), produced in collaboration with Irwin, documented the first congress of [[NSK State]] citizens in Berlin, while ''Glasba je časovna umetnost 3: LP film Laibach'' (Music is the Art of Time 3: LP Film Laibach, 2018) addressed the band's hugely controversial 1985 debut album, and won the audience award for best music film at the 2018 Soundwatch Berlin Music Film Festival.

Zupe also examined the early days of NSK in ''Od Kapitala do kapitala: Države v času NSK'' (From Kapital to Capital, 2017), a television documentary produced by RTV Slovenia to coincide with a major retrospective at the [[Moderna galerija (MG)|Museum of Modern Art]] in Ljubljana.

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Two shorter Laibach films followed in 2019: a Nord Cross-produced official video for "So Long, Farewell" from the band's 2018 album ''The Sound of Music'', and "4'33" Readymade Laibach", a typically sideways glance at John Cage's legendary silent score filmed at the Bačva Gallery in Zagreb and directed by Zupe ([[Staragara]] co-producing with Laibach).

Apart from Laibach, Nord Cross has produced two other documentaries on legendary Slovenian debut albums in the ''Music is the Art of Time'' series: on punk pioneers [[Pankrti]] (2006) and on the avant-garde prog band [[Buldožer]] (2017, directed by [[Varja Močnik]]).     

==Filmography==

* ''So Long, Farewell'' (official video film, dir. Igor Zupe, 2019)
* ''Glasba je časovna umetnost 3: LP film Laibach'' (documentary, dir. Igor Zupe, 2018)
* ''Glasba je časovna umetnost 2: LP film Buldožer &ndash; Pljuni istini u oči'' (documentary, dir. Varja Močnik, 2017)
* ''Perpetuum Jazzile &ndash; The Show: Live in Arena'' (concert film, production by Nord Cross, 2014)
* ''Čas za novo državo'' (documentary, dir. Igor Zupe, 2013)
* ''Glasba je časovna umetnost: LP film Pankrti &ndash; Dolgcajt'' (documentary, dir. Igor Zupe, 2006)
* ''It's Alive'' (documentary, dir. Igor Zupe, 1997)

==Awards==

'''Glasba je časovna umetnost: LP film Pankrti &ndash; Dolgcajt'''
* [[Vicious Cat Awards|Noisy Cat Award]] for Best Music Documentary, [[Grossmann Fantastic Film and Wine Festival|Grossman Festival]], Ljutomer, Slovenia, 2008
* Award for Best Music Film, DORF, Vinkovci, Croatia, 2007
* Special Commendation for Music Documentary, Friška Figa Film Festival, Čakovec, Croatia, 2007

'''Glasba je časovna umetnost 3: LP film Laibach'''
* Best Music Film, Soundwatch Berlin Music Film Festival, 2018

==See also==

* [[NSK State]]
* [[Laibach]]
* [[Irwin]]


== External links ==

* [http://nordcross.com/ Nord Cross/Igor Zupe website]
* [https://bsf.si/en/organization/nord-cross-production/ Nord Cross page, Slovenian Film Database]
* [https://dokweb.net/database/organizations/about/64b9bef3-bd00-4ca8-a416-fae57c7a267b/nord-cross-production Nord Cross page, Institute of Documentary Film]
* [http://kumba.agrft.uni-lj.si/ZAC/index.asp?OID=5928&l=0 Comprehensive Igor Zupe filmography, eKumba]
* [http://www.sasopodgorsek.com/ Sašo Podgoršek website]

'''Work'''

* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM90X-9m_Zc&t=312s 4'33" Readymade Laibach]
* [https://www.facebook.com/NCPfilm/?ref=page_internal Laibach LP film, Facebook page]
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMlMCynxn90 Laibach LP film, teaser]
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSf5DyFJlho Premiere of Laibach LP film, discussion with the filmmakers and members of Laibach, Kinodvor, June 2018] (in Slovenian)
* [https://4d.rtvslo.si/arhiv/dokumentarni-filmi-in-oddaje-kulturno-umetniski-program/174573078 ''Glasba je časovna umetnost 2: LP film Buldožer &ndash; Pljuni istini u oči'', full broadcast (geo-restricted), RTV Slovenia]
* [https://4d.rtvslo.si/arhiv/dokumentarni-filmi-in-oddaje-kulturno-umetniski-program/174507104?jwsource=cl ''Od Kapitala do kapitala: Države v času NSK'', full broadcast (geo-restricted), RTV Slovenia]
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2UEMotxHDg&feature=emb_logo ''Bachelors: A Stand-Art Film About Irwin'']



 



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