Frankfurt am Main | 14 – 22 October 2023

Natura

Vietnam 2019
By Snežana Golubović, Le Brothers, Thanh Le Ngoc, Hai Le Duc
Sun, 15 October 2023, 4:30 PM

NATURA is a mood, a birth, a nature, a universe, a world, an inherited property.
NATURA is the encounter of artists from different parts of the world.

NATURA is three artists: one woman and two men - twins.

NATURA is a meeting of Yugoslavia and Vietnam. Two countries at two ends of the world – one non existing anymore... So different and yet so similar and connected (historically, politically, ideologically...)
NATURA is an area where East and West meet, intercept, communicate, question, exchange wisdom and (no) knowledge, refuse, face, conflict and accept.
NATURA is a project of humanity.

NATURA is a return to the precious values that the laws of nature and all religions originally propagated.

NATURA is a slowdown in fast-paced living.

NATURA is a return to the values we have long forgotten.

NATURA is the heartbeat.

NATURA opens a new door and is committed to showing that in times of hatred, brutal wars, strangulation, diseases, furious development of new technologies and irresistible greed, there is still hope.

NATURA is hope.

NATURA is a step back to new times...

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Film Info

Info

Title
Natura
Release Date
01.07.2019
Country
  • Vietnam
  • Germany
  • Serbia
Length
12 Minutes
Color Format
  • Colour

Crew

Director
  • Snežana Golubović
  • Le Brothers
  • Thanh Le Ngoc
  • Hai Le Duc
  • Director

    • Snežana Golubović

      Snežana Golubović is an artist and a writer based in Germany.

      Born in Belgrade in the year The Rolling Stones rocked the world with „(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction“, she grew up with the Belgrade Alternative Scene (BAS), heard Ekatarina Velika, read Ivo Andrić and Danilo Kiš, visited BITEF (Belgrade International Theatre Festival) and FEST (Film festival), studied Drama, wrote about music and film, spent her summers in Dubrovnik and made her own radio and TV programs.

      In 1992, she moved to Germany where she has worked independently as an actress / performer in professional productions directed by renowns such as Alexander Brill, Dirk Hauser, Angie Hiesl, Saskia Boddeke and Peter Greenaway.

      From 2004 to 2007 she was a member of the Independent Performance Group (I.P.G.), which was founded and led by Marina Abramović.

      Since 2013 she has been a co-founder and member of the performance art trio TRaG (Trojan, Reiser and Golubović).

      Her works have been shown internationally at, among others:

      NMAC Foundation / Cadiz, Van Gogh Museum / Amsterdam, Avignon Theatre Festival, Venice Biennale, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium / Brussels as well as at numerous exhibitions and performance art festivals in Europe, Asia, North and South America.

      Snežana Golubović is Professor for Performative cultural education at the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences.

    • Le Brothers

      Thanh Le Ngoc and Hai Le Duc (Le Brothers), born in 1975 in the Quang Binh Province, were first noticed as the artists of Vietnamese lacquer painting of war topics. In 2000 both graduated from the Hue College of Arts where Le Ngoc Thanh studied lacquer painting and Le Duc Hai oil painting.

      After painting, the artists started creating performances and video works highlighting the metaphor of similarity. Many of their works speak of the issue of Southern and Northern Vietnam and other places that were or are divided. The Le Brothers are known for their unique approach to history, identity and the interpretation of the past in the present.

      Le Brothers have exhibited and performed nationally and internationally. Their works are in numerous national and international private and museums collections , including the Singapore Contem porary Art, Museum Gwangju Museum of Art and The Jim Thompson Art Center.

      The Le Brothers also have been connecting artists across the world through Vietnam’s first artists-in-residence program, the New Space Arts Foundation, which they launched in April 2008, from a gallery they founded in 2000. The Le Brothers live with their families in Hue, Vietnam.

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