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?Framing the Space? was shot at the summer residency of former Yugoslavia`s president Tito. The Vila underwent numerous redesigns concurrent with national cultural and political imperatives throughout its life, culminating in its 1950s redesign by Tito?s official state architect, who had the task of translating the existing Austro Hungarian castle into a new, modernist architecture, fit to illustrate a new national formation. The film presents philosophical and architectural theories of purpose, form, function and aesthetic priorities through a staged interview between the architect and a journalist questioning his possible successes and failures. The script is based on documents from Slovenian Parliament?s archives from 1950s. The theoretical debate around ideological vision lies in opposite to the period/melodrama-style delivery and aesthetic and points to the exoticism that historical and geopolitical revisitations are subjected to in the eyes of the contemporary viewer. The recontextualising of issues around the ideas of national representativeness, dramatises not only the power paradigms inherent in systems of authority, but also the explicit contradictions present in the transmutation of a national identity from past to present, place to place. Framing the Space was produced specifically for Cibic?s project ?For Our Economy and Culture? representing Slovenia at the 55th Venice Biennial.

Jasmina Cibic was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia in 1979. She completed her MA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College in London in 2006. She has taught at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice and regularly holds artist talks and lectures internationally. Jasmina Cibic?s recent projects and exhibitions include ?For Our Economy and Culture?, Slovenian pavilion, 55th Venice Biennial, ?Disturbances?, Musée national d`histoire et d`art, Luxembourg, 3oth International Graphics Biennial Ljubljana, ?October Salon?, Belgrade, ?U3 ? 7TH Triennial of Contemporary Art?, MSUM, Ljubljana, ?Monitoring?, Dokfest, Kassel, ?Borderline?, Joanneum Museum Graz, ?The Secret of the Ninth Planet?, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, ?Museum on the Street?, Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana, ?The Object of the Spectacle?, Galerija ?kuc, Ljubljana, ?Present State?, Five Years Gallery, London, ?Tourists Welcome?, Ljubljana International Airport and ?Landescape?, Künstlerhaus Graz. Her upcoming exhibitions include ?Fruits of Our Land?, LMAKprojects, New York and Ernst Museum (Capa Contemporary Photography Center), Budapest. Jasmina Cibic? s moving image work has recently been screened at Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana and KORO, Oslo. Her upcoming screenings include 14th GOEAST - FESTIVAL OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPEAN FILM, Wiesbaden, ?Art and Power?, Museum of 25th of May, Belgrade.