Andrej Zdravič: SECRETS OF SOČA – Time Horizon (Trailer)

Andrej Zdravič is an award-winning filmmaker who has immersed himself in underwater filming of the Soča River, an important natural treasure of Triglav National Park. His half-hour video and sound installation Secrets of Soča is on view at the TNP Info Center Dom Trenta. The trailer you are about to watch offers only a glimpse of this unique installation. “My first attempts at underwater filming of the Soča River in 1987 inspired me to develop a special device that allowed me to reveal visual perspectives of the Soča previously unknown to the human eye,” Andrej Zdravič wrote about the permanent video installation, originally created in 1995 and, more than three decades later, presented in a renewed form at the TNP Info Center Dom Trenta. The filmmaker captured the Soča in a unique way throughout all seasons of the year. The video installation thus becomes “a wreath of songs of the Soča River. Each song reveals, through image and sound, one of the many states of life arising from the movement and phenomena of the river’s waters: Mysterious Source, Light Rays, Undulations, Black Water, Droplets of Snow, Summer Forest, Little Cascade, Air Manes, Secret Pulse, Trout Games, Dance of Pebbles, Chalk, Little Beach, Water Sky, Liquid Glass, Funnels, Swift Current, Spaces, Guardian of the Deep, Stormy Stream, Autumn, Leaves and Rain, Swarm of Light, The Source, Mount Triglav.” Secrets of Soča installation unfolds before visitors to The TNP Info Center Dom Trenta across multiple television screens. Conceptually, the program is based on the Time Horizon concept, first realized by Andrej Zdravič in 1993 in the installation Water Waves for the Exploratorium, a museum of science, tehnology, and art in San Francisco. A few words about the author: In 1999, Andrej Zdravič received the Prešeren Fund Award. Two decades later, he was honored with the Badjura Award for Lifetime Achievement. Over the course of his creative career, Andrej Zdravič has produced nearly 40 films and video installations, including the one that reveals to visitors of TNP Info Center Dom Trenta a previously unseen, hidden underwater world of the emerald river.