Title (Year) Director. Place
The strokes of light lines in the film create a sketch of the artist Milko Bambic (1905-1991) - painter, illustrator, polyglot, polyhistorian, inventor, art critic, writer, pioneer of Slovenian comics…
Title (Year) Director. Place
The strokes of light lines in the film create a sketch of the artist Milko Bambic (1905-1991) - painter, illustrator, polyglot, polyhistorian, inventor, art critic, writer, pioneer of Slovenian comics and caricatures. The designer who was when this profession didn't exist yet. The film, with the textures of historical time and space, colors the playful and independent personality of the controversial creator, who has remained on the periphery to this day - relatively unknown in the Central Slovenian art scene, but its prominent protagonist in the Trieste area. The stations of Bambic's biographical circle - Trieste, Idrija, Trieste, Ljubljana, Zagreb, Ljubljana, Belgrade, Zagreb, Ljubljana, Trieste - the film presents through pictorial material, drawings, pictures, archival footage, comics, which shed light on a versatile artistic career, important for the culture of Slovenia , both in the period between the wars and today. The 20th century on the Central European-Balkan soil with all its dramatic shifts, from Austria-Hungary through SHS, the first and second Yugoslavia to the eve of the independence of the members of the then federation, marked the artist's stay. Among other things, Milko Bambic created art equipment for Radenska mineral water from 1931, with a characteristic inscription that is still in use today, and with the well-known three red hearts patriotically indicated the "brotherhood of the SHS" at that time. He began his work during the rise of nationalism and fascism, he could not resist political activism. In 1927, in the monthly magazine Nas glas, he published the anti-fascist satirical comic book Bu-ci-bu about a small, arrogant and tyrannical black king, a parable of Benito Mussolini: in this work, the first Slovenian comic, he predicted his downfall.
Title (Year) Director. Place
Documentary
Film Details
The strokes of light lines in the film create a sketch of the artist Milko Bambic (1905-1991) - painter, illustrator, polyglot, polyhistorian, inventor, art critic, writer, pioneer of Slovenian comics and caricatures. The designer who was when this profession didn't exist yet. The film, with the textures of historical time and space, colors the playful and independent personality of the controversial creator, who has remained on the periphery to this day - relatively unknown in the Central Slovenian art scene, but its prominent protagonist in the Trieste area.
The stations of Bambic's biographical circle - Trieste, Idrija, Trieste, Ljubljana, Zagreb, Ljubljana, Belgrade, Zagreb, Ljubljana, Trieste - the film presents through pictorial material, drawings, pictures, archival footage, comics, which shed light on a versatile artistic career, important for the culture of Slovenia , both in the period between the wars and today. The 20th century on the Central European-Balkan soil with all its dramatic shifts, from Austria-Hungary through SHS, the first and second Yugoslavia to the eve of the independence of the members of the then federation, marked the artist's stay. Among other things, Milko Bambic created art equipment for Radenska mineral water from 1931, with a characteristic inscription that is still in use today, and with the well-known three red hearts patriotically indicated the "brotherhood of the SHS" at that time.
He began his work during the rise of nationalism and fascism, he could not resist political activism. In 1927, in the monthly magazine Nas glas, he published the anti-fascist satirical comic book Bu-ci-bu about a small, arrogant and tyrannical black king, a parable of Benito Mussolini: in this work, the first Slovenian comic, he predicted his downfall..