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  • Author : Association APSOLUTNO
  • Duration : 07'15''
  • Original Title : Absolutely Dead
  • English Title : Absolutely Dead
  • Year : 1995

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Bio : Founded 1993 in Novi Sad, Serbia, the former Yugoslavia. Members: Zoran Pantelić, Dragan Rakić, Bojana Petrić and Dragan Miletić.
Description : The video is a pseudo-documentary of a pseudo-investigation into a death case. The victims are two half-built and abandoned trans-oceanic liners, left at the shipyard in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia, between the 1,258th and 1,259th kilometre of the Danube. The video features the members of Apsolutno as detectives who undertake a detailed investigation into the condition of the ships: the interior of the ships is examined thoroughly, while textual details about the ships appear on the yellow emergency ribbon on the screen. The final conclusion is that it is impossible to state with any certainty the cause of death, but that this is a case of absolute death. In this video, Apsolutno uses the evident condition of the ships as a metaphor for a particular social environment at a particular time.

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