Laibach - The Videos
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Actor: LaibachDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Best of, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 100 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-11-16
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Mute U.S.
Movie Reviews of Laibach - The Videos
Movie Review: From the Golden Age, To the Age of Steel...
Summary: 5 Stars
What a total treat. The first time I became aware of Laibach was nearly twenty years ago when I first saw the video for Opus Dei [Life is Life] on MTV's long dead and--probably in these days of Butts'n'Bling--little lamented 120 Minutes. I thought it was the most visually arresting thing I had ever seen, with its sweeping, majestic Slovene-scapes and the then-young Laibach looking ever-so-serious. Nowadays I look at it and try to imagine the budget. The band clearly already owned lederhosen and suspenders, so some firewood, a couple tents, and a few bottles of cheap Yugoslav beer to drink around the fire after looking all stern and serious all day. Oh yeah, and a few hundred feet of film. $500.00, tops. Same for Sympathy for the Devil. Both, incidentally, could have been produced by the Ministry of Tourism, so elegantly and eloquently do they present Laibach's beloved Slovenia. Anyone dumb enough to still think Laibach are some sort of fascists should watch those two, plus the campy, ridiculous Geburt Einer Nation, which looks like Leni Riefenstahl by way of Monty Python--check out the facial expressions on the sole blonde member if you have any doubts this is all an elaborate joke.
Across the Universe is utterly gorgeous--I had no idea there even was a video for it, and it's a longtime favorite. Note that before the end of the video when Milan says "Om," the only shot of a band member in the whole video is a shot of the skinny dark-haired guy's enormous adam's apple. Love baby Laibach!
Wirtschaft ist Tod has a silly, inexplicable feeling that goes quite well with the utterly inscrutible album it came from--think Flash Gordon meets Star Trek, Spaceballs, Triumph of the Will, and Modern Times. Or perhaps don't, if you value your sanity.
From here it gets a bit iffy. Having a budget does not seem to much agree with Laibach's post-Dadaist artistic aesthetic. The videos from the NATO era (except for War) are just lame. Yeah, great--flying NSK passports: that really captures the loopy Wagnerian/Andrew Lloyd Weber-esque/Giorgio Moroderian feel of the song. But soon enough it's all over and it's obvious the budgets have been slashed back to the point where they have to be creative again. God is God is back to locations in Slovenia albeit with color-correction that makes the Alps look like Hell, Alle Gegen Alle is live, Tanz Mit Laibach remixes old videos and showcases Milan's unsuspected resemblance to Viggo Mortensen. And Das Spiel ist Aus is live with shots of the band in a mall with military uniforms and a shopping cart upsetting passersby.
The documentary is fantastic, particularly if, like me, you have not seen "A Film From Slovenia" or "Predictions of Fire" and don't really know that much about them beyond their albums and a few cryptic, absurd interviews. Not so fabulous is the "director's commentary track" from Milan that accompanies what basically amounts to a video version of the album WAT. I don't think Laibach is well-served by having their lead singer earnestly explaining what the songs mean in terms that at time seem almost apologetic--rendering their music (seemingly) explicable takes away some of its power. Or maybe it's just the most direct method of disinforming us they've ever attempted.
Either way, this will both entertain and provoke thought, which plants it squarely in the Laibach tradition.
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