The Left Ideology of Slovenianhood and Generation X in Four Films by Vinci Vogue Anžlovar

Vinci Vogue Anžlovar’s films have, over a long period, from the early 1990s to the early 2020s, uniquely reflected and interacted with the prevailing ideology in Slovenia. This reflects a historically conditioned desire for the transgression of the imagined cultural norms, whose objects vary depending on the specific films in each period. Some currents persist and acquire names from various toponyms, entering into contradictions with themselves: for instance, the West and the South are sometimes nearly synonymous and, at other times, antonymous, even though, in both cases, there remains a desire to transcend the experience of one’s own place. We witness the transformations of the perception of the world through the lens of the so-called urban Generation X, all the way to self-transcendence and the anticipation of the culture of autofiction within the culture of narcissism. In Anžlovar’s films, the question is not at all one of standard aesthetic evaluation, which is not crucial for understanding the significance of his films within Slovenian film history.

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