interview
Women Cinemakers monopolists and I started feeling claustrophobic. There was progressively less room for diversity of ideas and artistic visions. When I first traveled to Los Angeles on a Soroš grant, I was immediately attracted to its opennes, to the vastness of the land, to the desert, the ocean and the big sky. It was a visceral response to the space, without yet knowing it, as I know it today. Cal Arts was significant during the first transitioning phase; it helped me with »translation« from one culture to another and back. This was also the time of intense hands-on creativity. A wide variety of film and video equipment, which was not as accessible then as it is today, was suddenly available to me. By mastering many facets of film and video production I attained a kind of creative freedom, which allows me to move effortlessly between different aspects of filmmaking. But I soon realized that I will never completely melt with my adopted country. Instead I became a person with two cultures, with two often incomparable and mutually untranslatable lives, which makes my life richer, but also more complicated. “America is my country, and Paris is my home town.” said Gertrude Stein. I feel similarly about Slovenia and Los Angeles. You are a versatile artist and your practice is marked out with such stimulating multidisciplinary feature, allowing you to range from single and multi-channel videos, video installations, short and feature films, video objects and print media: before starting to elaborate about your artistic