The crowdfunding is over. WE REACHED THE GOAL!
181 patrons supported MY NAME IS JANEZ JANSA and YOU ARE ONE OF THEM!
THANK YOU! HVALA! GRAZIE! DANKE! GRACIAS! MERCI! TAK!
The crowdfunding campaign went far beyond our expectations: the movie got an injection of 7185 Euro. Now there's no more »maybe« and »perhaps«…
WE ARE GOING TO FINISH THIS DAM MOVIE. IT'S A FACT!
Janez
Couple of week ago we organized a test screening of My Name Is Janez Jansa at Kinodvor in order to check the quality of the color correction, the exactness of the graphics, captions and subtitles and, last but not least… the state of the sound mix, which is basically the main technical issue we still have to overcome. It was quite a feeling to see the movie finally running on a large screen.
There were only few of us at the screening plus the film critic and TV anchorman Marcel Štefančič jr. The guy then wrote a review that was published yesterday in the weekly magazine Mladina. This is the very first review about our movie...
Janez
P.S. At the moment the review is only in Slovenian. Next week we will post the English translation. Dear international friends… stay tuned!
I left you another week without feeds. Shame on me!
But, again, you know, there were a lot of important things to do the main one being the organization of the Live Crowdfunding Party at BI-KO-FE last Friday.
The party was great. Lot's of people and good vibes. But most of all... we were able to collect 558 Euro for our movie! We are so happy. Now we just need an extra little effort to finally reach the goal. Only 815 Euro more and the jackpot will be our. The final countdown has started. This is the last week!
We have no good photos of the party as we were too busy enjoying it. But here I post for you the 4 type of T-Shirts we produced for the crowdfunding. Do you like them?
Click, Janez
Since the early 1990s the question of shared identity was always ubiquitous in the global massmedia and peer-to-peer networks. And now the lovely and subversive case of Janez Jansa pops up in our system of perception and sneaks into everybodys attention. The only truly global common denominator of human culture is film, and now this - big screen - magic is abused by a group of rogue artists trying to steal what is already theirs...
vienna, april 2012
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12€ reward
You'll get 'Special Thanks' credit on the film, on the film's website and social media.
18€ reward
You'll be able to download the file of the documentary »My name is Janez Janša« and be among the first to see it + You'll get 'Special Thanks' credit on the film, on the film's website and social media.
25€ reward
You'll get a copy of the limited edition DVD of »My name is Janez Janša« autographed by the 3 artists Janez Janšas + 'Special Thanks' credit on the film, on the film's website and social media.
40€ reward
You'll get one of 4 exclusive T-shirts of your choice + a copy of the limited edition DVD of »My name is Janez Janša« autographed by the 3 artists Janez Janšas + 'Special Thanks' credit on the film, on the film's website and social media.
70€ reward
You'll get a 20x30 cm photo print of the artistic action »Mt. Triglav on Mt. Triglav«... read more
Dear supporters of the movie My Name Is Janez Janša, yes, I did it again... I wasn't writing for quite a while on this blog. But I had a good excuse for not doing it. I actually took advantage of the International Workers' Day to do concentrate on some technical issues about the doc and on its promotion.
As the result of this efforts we managed to get 3 new media sponsors: The internationally distributed magazine Neural dealing with new media art, electronic music and hacktivism, the Slovenian weekly current affairs magazine Mladina and my favourite radio station, Radio Študent, a must-listen-to when I drive around Ljubljana.
They all placed the banner of our movie on their website and are actively helping us pushing the crowdfunding further.
We will also do our part in that sense: we will do a CROWDFUNDING PARTY at Be-Ko-Fe, next Friday, 11th of May at 10 PM !!!
All you... read more
Tickets for the 2012 edition of the Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference have been sold out in less the two hours. Since they're nontransferable somebody had
this brilliant idea!
:) Thumbs up!
In 1993, Prince was fed up with his label, Warner Bros, with whom he had signed a $100 million deal less than a year before. They wanted him to release fewer CDs so he wouldn't flood the market. The artist responded by accusing Warner of stifling his creativity but he couldn't get out of his contract so he decided to change his name to an unpronounceable combination of the symbols for male (♂) and female (♀). In order for the media to use the symbol, his record label had to mail out thousands of floppy disks with a custom font.
Officially, the singer explained his new designation in a press statement by saying: ''It is an unpronounceable symbol whose meaning has not been identified. It's all about thinking in new ways, tuning in 2 a new free-quency.''
What about introductions?
As he told an interviewer in 1995, ''I get by. I don't need a name as such, really.''
Journalists started to call him... read more
In 1967, before the boxing fight, Terrell refused to call Ali by his name. Instead he insisted on calling him Cassius Clay. Ali told him and the press that he was going to punish him mercilessly and make him say his real name.
During the fight Ali called out "What's my name?" to Terrell.
In and interview with Howard Cosell on ABC not long after the match Muhammad Ali apologized for talking to Terrell throughout the fight, and saying "what's my name" then hitting him. However he said he did it so Terrell and other people would respect his religious beliefs. Terrell ended up saying "Muhammad Ali"...
During the United Kingdom general election in 1983 an interesting name change took place.
In May 1983 Mr Colin Hanoman changed his name to Margaret Thatcher and, on the same date, Mr Simon Stansfeld changed his name to Ronald Regan.
Subsequently, on May 23, Mr Thatcher personally submitted nomination papers to the returning officer for the Finchley constituency with himself as candidate and Mr Regan as agent. His description was “Conservationist Party”.
The great news of today is that we have an international distributor for our movie: Taskovski Film LTD.
Now that the deal is done I can finally share this great news with you!
We just received the first 35 copies of our promotional DVD!** With this material Taskovski people will start to spread the movie internationally :)
** This is not yet the final version of the movie but an "advanced rough cut", is to say a version good enough for promotional purposes.
Mladen Dolar is one of the fil rouge of our doc. He appears several times and every time with something intriguing and straight to the point. This is one of his interventions.
[Click Here]
Another one was in the trailer that I guess you all see. But… just in case… here it goes again.
[Click Here]
All the graphic animations are the work of Luka Umek. Thumb up for both of them!
Sorry I was negletting a bit this blog in the last few days. Simply too much work...
In the last few days I've been posting quite few new clips on the other blog I'm managing, the one within the documentary's webside.
Here you can see them:
Would you be a postman in Chioggia?
If yes, then this is a case of homonymy!
Your name is there to make you stand out, to differentiate you from others. But then you might run into someone who has the very same name as you. Homonymy can be a problem, rather serious problem, a problem that might mass up the whole system…
This is made very clear in this fragment of the movie »My Name Is Janez Jansa« feauturing the Dominican immigrant Héctor Ramirez Delgado who is having troubles with homonymy since he was a child.
http://player.vimeo.com/video/40007231
Enlighten by this story I started to ask people around me about this topic and then I made this patchwork out of their answers…
http://player.vimeo.com/video/40007287
In the next days I’ll post couple of more radical examples of homonymy. In the meantime if you have short personal stories to tell about homonymy I’ll be happy to read them.
Janez
The crowdfunding has finally started as you noticed :) The result of the first two days is promising. I'm really surprized by the number of reactions It's really nice to feel that people is supporting your project. Thanks!
In the next 38 days we will release short clips of the movie (we have quite a lot of them ready) on our blog: http://www.mynameisjanezjansa.com/
Keep an eye on it or in the FB page of the documentary: http://www.facebook.com/mynameisjanezjansa
Today I worked hard on the movie and at the end of the day it turned out to be a very positive day. In the morning Marcela and I went for a meeting at Teleking which is a department of the company Artrebel. They invited us after reading all the mess that is happening in the Slovenian press around our movie (Slovenian readers can read all articles here: http://www.mynameisjanezjansa.com/?page_id=162) Since they are good guys they easily understood... read more
I'm finally on Verkami and I'm very thrilled about it. I'll do my best to keep you informed about the development of my documentary movie My Name Is Janez Janša. Promise!
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