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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 AGRFT. This was an attempt to embody the Irwin group's concept of the ''Heimat'' film and explore how film symbolism can present and explore 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 explicitly 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.
 
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 AGRFT. This was an attempt to embody the Irwin group's concept of the ''Heimat'' film and explore how film symbolism can present and explore 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 explicitly 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.
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The films explicitly produced by Zupe under the Nord Cross banner continue 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. ''Time for a New State'' (2013), produced in collaboration with Irwin, documented the first congress of [[NSK State]] citizens in Berlin, while ''Music is the Art of Time 3: LP Film Laibach'' (2018) addressed Laibach'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 ''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.
 
The films explicitly produced by Zupe under the Nord Cross banner continue 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. ''Time for a New State'' (2013), produced in collaboration with Irwin, documented the first congress of [[NSK State]] citizens in Berlin, while ''Music is the Art of Time 3: LP Film Laibach'' (2018) addressed Laibach'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 ''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 '4'3" Readymade Laibach', a typically sideways glance at John Cage's legendary silent score filmed at the Bačva Gallery in Zagreb ([[Staragara]] co-producing with Laibach).
 
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 '4'3" Readymade Laibach', a typically sideways glance at John Cage's legendary silent score filmed at the Bačva Gallery in Zagreb ([[Staragara]] co-producing with Laibach).
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* [http://nordcross.com/ Nord Cross/Igor Zupe website]
 
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* [https://bsf.si/en/organization/nord-cross-production/ Nord Cross page, Slovenian Film Centre]
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* [https://www.facebook.com/NCPfilm/?ref=page_internal Laibach LP film Facebook page]
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* [https://dokweb.net/database/organizations/about/64b9bef3-bd00-4ca8-a416-fae57c7a267b/nord-cross-production Nord Cross page, Institute of Documentary Film]
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* [http://www.kibla.org/en/news/news/?no_cache=1&tx_ttnews%5Bpointer%5D=69&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=945&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=160&cHash=840a1cc4b5 Preview of ''Bachelors'', 2008, [[KIBLA Multimedia Centre|KIBLA]]]
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* [http://kumba.agrft.uni-lj.si/ZAC/index.asp?OID=5928&l=0 Comprehensive Igor Zupe filmography, eKumba]
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* [http://kumba.agrft.uni-lj.si/ZAC/index.asp?OID=5928&l=0 Comprehensive Igor Zupe filmography, [[EKumba Database|eKumba]]]
 
 
* [http://www.sasopodgorsek.com/ Sašo Podgoršek website]
 
* [http://www.sasopodgorsek.com/ Sašo Podgoršek website]
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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOfkwm_Yz0Q 'So Long, Farewell' official video film]
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* [https://www.facebook.com/NCPfilm/?ref=page_internal Facebook page, Laibach LP film]
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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMlMCynxn90 ''Glasba je časovna umetnost 3: LP film Laibach'', teaser]
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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSf5DyFJlho Premiere of LP film Laibach, discussion with the filmmakers and members of Laibach, Kinodvor, June 2018] in Slovenian
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* [https://4d.rtvslo.si/arhiv/dokumentarni-filmi-in-oddaje-kulturno-umetniski-program/174573078 ''Glasba je časovna umetnost 2: LP film Buldožer'', full broadcast (geo-restricted), RTV Slovenia]
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* [https://4d.rtvslo.si/arhiv/dokumentarni-filmi-in-oddaje-kulturno-umetniski-program/174507104?jwsource=cl ''From Kapital to Capital'', full broadcast (geo-restricted), RTV Slovenia]
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Nord Cross Production is a film and video production company founded in 2000 by Igor Zupe and Sašo Podgoršek, who first met as students at 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, perhaps as much a pseudonym as a name explicitly attached to this or that project. Both separately and as Nord Cross, the two directors are perhaps best known for their long-standing association with Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK), which has yielded a number of important documents on the careers of Laibach and Irwin in particular.


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 AGRFT. This was an attempt to embody the Irwin group's concept of the Heimat film and explore how film symbolism can present and explore notions of home and homeland. Zupe provided a more extended, retrospective meditation on the group's work in Ženini (Bachelors, 2008), co-produced by 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 explicitly 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.

Nord Cross productions

The films explicitly produced by Zupe under the Nord Cross banner continue 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. Time for a New State (2013), produced in collaboration with Irwin, documented the first congress of NSK State citizens in Berlin, while Music is the Art of Time 3: LP Film Laibach (2018) addressed Laibach'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 From Kapital to Capital (2017), a television documentary produced by RTV Slovenia to coincide with a major retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana. 

Laibach 4'33" by Mute on YouTube

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 '4'3" Readymade Laibach', a typically sideways glance at John Cage's legendary silent score filmed at the Bačva Gallery in Zagreb (Staragara co-producing with Laibach).

Away from Laibach, Nordcross 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 - Pljuni istini u oči (documentary, dir. Varja Močnik, 2017)
  • Perpetuum Jazzile - 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 – Dolgcajt (documentary, dir. Igor Zupe, 2006)
  • It's Alive (documentary, dir. Igor Zupe, 1997)

Awards

Glasba je časovna umetnost: LP film Pankrti – Dolgcajt

  • Noisy Cat Award for Best Music Documentary, 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

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