VIDEO & FILM HIGHLIGHTS

The video project Flipped Stories includes two episodes, titled 'Marriage' as Episode 1 and 'Eros and Thanatos' as Episode 2. The project started to develop during the quarantine in 2020 and is an ongoing project as long as the idea can provide inspiration. Flipped Stories is a metaphorical name for many phenomena that have their own contradictions. In the episode 'Marriage,' the author captures a sequence of his private married life. The author's view is flipped, alluding to the situation itself, which is also flipped in some way. In this case, the author presents a self-portrait of his marriage and explores what marriage can bring in terms of communication. The episode 'Eros and Thanatos' is motivated by the artist's serious car accident that happened on September 11, 2022, and is generated as part of his post-recovery and rehabilitation process. The author states, 'This video is my personal confession but also draws inspiration from the phenomenon of life and death.' These scenes are filmed from the back seat of a Munich Tram while traveling from one doctor to another and recovering from the severe effects of the accident. The scenes are deliberately shot upside down. 'Eros and Thanatos' is a metaphorical title taken from Freud's essay 'Beyond the Pleasure Principle' from 1920. The Freudian theory of drives (Urtriebe) emphasizes the idea of an inherent principle of entropy, a tendency for the dissolution of life referred to as the Death drive or Thanatos. Freud also recognized a counterbalancing tendency to sustain life known as the Life drive or Eros. Proximity to death is only one step closer to realizing our transience and the importance of life. The inverted way of seeing the world brings a different understanding of the visual narrative. Director and producer: Aleksandar Spasoski Cast: Slavitsa Vampirdzhieva Spasoska Music: Tomasz Orszulak @ Pond 5 © 2024"

"The video Flipped Stories is part of a project with the same name that the author developed during the quarantine in the past few months. Flipped stories is a metaphorical term that encompasses various phenomena with inherent contradictions. The author captured moments from his private married life during the COVID-19 pandemic quarantine in Germany in April 2020. The author's perspective is reversed, reflecting the situation itself, which is also inverted in some way. In this case, the author presents a self-portrait of his marriage and explores the communication dynamics within it. Director: A. Spasoski, Cast: Slavitsa Vampirdzhieva Spasoska, 2020®" Festivals: https://boshfest.com/bosh-festival-2023/

“The ship that never passed” is a short video, that presents conceptual site-specific art work with a powerful 12,000 watt sound installation in Munich under the "Reichenbachbrücke" Bridge on the banks of the River Isar in 2013. Choosing a location, which has no water traffic, Spasoski reproduces the sound of a ships horn in order to stimulate the audienceʼs imagination. Transforming an audio sensation into a visual picture.  The project was also performed In Skopje, Macedonia 2012.  It has since opened many curatorial questions regarding the historical and political discourse of this country. Short critical review about the art project: “By integrative play of acceptance of the sound stimulation, Spasoski succeeds not only in affecting the senses, but also in evoking various cognitive associations. In his text Status #100 – 8/92 Dock on dry, Prof. Nebojsha Vilich: “Spasoski succeeds in composing and placing the basic elements of every big art work with divine proportion: simple language that through speech creates a complex and stratified rhetoric”. Prof. d-r Nebojsha Vilic Supported by: Kultur Referat Munich, Ministry of culture of Republic of Macedonia

A sound site-specific installation by Aleksandar Spasoski. Supported by City of Skopje for the Art Event "Skopje Urban Stories" Critical Review by Nebojsa Vilic: Anchored to Dry Land - Prof. d-r Nebojsa Vilic - https://nvilic.wordpress.com/2012/07/31/892-%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8-%D0%BD%D0%B0-%D1%81%D1%83%D0%B2%D0%BE/ ​

„Voyeur“, 2007/08 Video, 05 min, Dv Pal The quintessence of Aleksandar Spasoski’s work „VOYEUR“ is not a mere reporting, but the intuitive experience of a voyeur. His installation - a harmonic interplay of production and postproduction, emphasized by acoustic elements and original compositions, enables the viewer to assume the role of a voyeur. We receive impressions of unfamiliar scenes, unhurriedly changing, almost strolling, at the steady pace of a pedestrian, whose echo of steps becomes our own. Spasosky makes use of existent film material and increases its effect by adding his own sequences and re-composing them anew. Out of his personal experience, he thereby shows scenes of someone wandering the nightly streets of alien cities and gazing into stranger’s windows, into stranger’s lives. The phenomenal quiet and solitude recalls the ambiance as created by works of Doug Aitken. Both Aitken and Spasosky deal with homelessness, the alien and transitory, and neither of them offers a solution, there’s no beginning, no end. Correspondingly, the artist makes use of his own compositions, which, despite being contemporary, exhibit impressionist traits. The conjunction and composition of visual and acoustic elements generate a balance with emphasis neither on telling a story, nor scoring a film, nor the simultaneity of both. The sequences shown offer a broad spectrum of potential stories, but the scenes are presented as extracts and then fade out. The viewer does not receive a defined context, but a potpourri of impressions. Both acoustic effects, steps and film score, create a simultaneous effect before the viewer actually perceives the plot. Perception and cognition of the audience are influenced before they comprehend the meaning. The artist therefore creates a high level of subjective sensation in which his work’s value is reinforced. However, his video installation does not present or discuss impressions and stories, but leaves the stories untold, stories we don’t experience or live, but watch. Art succeeds in portraying the visible as well as the invisible – in this sense, VOYEUR succeeds.

Colourful Revolution Video HD 1:51 min. one channel video. Music by: "neRed" Dine Doneff double bass, Thanos Sideris bass clar.&Nikos Paraoulakis nay This video trough documented material and manipulation of sound shows atmosphere of buzzing insects that in one metaphorical way present and show the actual Macedonian political reaction of many citizens that are protesting against the government corruption in Republic of Macedonia. The citizens think that the government had invested too much money in unnecessary new classical buildings in Skopje, so called project “Skopje 2014”. Namely, the video material that the artist is using is shot on a location (lamp) that lights one of the new classical buildings in Skopje. The author trough this video refers to multilayer meaning of this video that it is a reflection of the present citizens discourse that he explains it as a buzzing atmosphere or so called protest “Colourful Revolution”. The protests in Macedonia has developed an action that is characterised with paint ball colouring action on all new classical buildings and monuments in Skopje. From another point of view the Government has reacted with a statement that the citizens movement is distractive and against the national and historical values of the country.This protest initiated similar movements in other ex Yugoslavian countries, as a method of protesting without bloodshed. In this video the sound discreetly but with an own sound fx enhances the dramatisation and highly aesthetically combination of visual and audio sublime. This video is mentioned to be presented as video installation in space.

2013 in Munich at the river Isar under the bridge of Raichenbachbrücke an artist from the Republic of Macedonia installed a powerful 12 000 watt sound in order to reproduce the sound of a real ship horn. The basic idea of the artist was to initiate an imagination as if a real ship exists or passing by. Choosing a place where there is no water-traffic Spasoski recreates the everyday location into something that will stimulate the audienceʼs imagination from an audio sense to a visual picture. This synesthetic influence from one sense to another is the main proposition idea of the artist. It also captures how the other people, which are out of the location focus will be affected by this sound. The film document is the only existing part of this one-day act and it is the most convenient impression that can express the art piece. With great humor the film on the other hand is chronological, showing the development of the project, difficulties that the artist is facing with the society to get permission from the city offices in Bavaria, and the technical aspects that were necessary to build the construction. “The ship that never passed” was also performed in 2012 at the capital of the Republic of Macedonia and it has opened many curatorial questions regarding the historical and political issues of this country.

"This is an art video! A protest video platform. I took my smartphone and, as a reflection of the actual protests during the summer of this year in my country, Macedonia, I went to survey the people to answer one single question: What are they fed up with?"

Cacophony is a video that integrates 20 piano channel tracks/songs mixed in one. This is a famous phenomena in music.