Doppel-Screening „Liberation Day“ und „Music is the Art of Time 3: LP Film Laibach“

Screening at the Dortmunder U cinema (ground floor) as part of the HMKV exhibition What is art, IRWIN?

Free admission, admission from 18 years.

Liberation Day (Director: Ugis Olte / Morten Traavik), 100 min., NOR/LVA, 2016, original languages: EN / KOR, subtitles: EN.

To the surprise of the whole world, the cult band Laibach is the first rock group ever to perform in the fortress state of North Korea. Faced with strict ideology and cultural differences, the band struggles to get their songs through the eye of the needle of censorship before they can be presented to an audience that has never been exposed to alternative rock music before. Meanwhile, propaganda loudspeakers are set up on the border between the two Koreas and a countdown to war is announced.

Music is the Art of Time 3: LP Film Laibach (Director: Igor Zupe), 52 min., SVN, 2018, original languages: EN/SVN, subtitles: EN.

A film about the first officially released album of the avant-garde rock band Laibach in Yugoslavia in 1985. Since the name of the band was banned at that time, the record was released without the title and name on the cover. The LP film focuses on the first five crucial years of these self-proclaimed "engineers of the human soul," exploring the background of their first LP and the inspirations of its co-creators, including the late frontman Tomaz Hostnik (1961-1982).

Image credit: Film still from Liberation Day (directed by Ugis Olte / Morten Traavik).