Reviews

Reviews & Essays

2013
  • ‘The Ecocinema Experience’: ‘Andrej Zdravič’s Riverglass – A River Ballet in Four Seasons - essay by Scott MacDonald (pp 5 & 17-21), and ‘The Aesthetics and Ethics of Eco-film Criticism’, essay by David Ingram, (pp 44-45) / ‘Ecocinema Theory and Practice’, edited by Stephen Rust (et al.), Routledge, 2013    
2012
2010
  • ‘Shifting Paradigms: From Environmentalist Films to Ecocinema’ / ‘Lyrical Ecocinema: Riverglass – A Ballet in Four Seasons (pp 51-54) /‘Framing the World - Explorations in Ecocriticism and Film’, edited by Paula Willoquet-Maricondi (also, author of the essay), University of Virginia Press, 2010
 
2008
  • ‘The Films of Andrej Zdravič’ - Retrospective program notes, Anthology Film Archives, New York   
 
2005
  • ‘Le immagini elementali di Andrej Zdravič’, essay by Paolo Mottana ("Dalla 'clinica della formazione' alla 'pedagogia immaginale' attraverso il cinema" (p 89-106) / Pierluigi Malavasi, Simonetta Polenghi, Pier Cesare Rivoltella (a cura), ‘Cinema, pratiche formative, educazione’, Vita e Pensiero, Milano, 2005
 
  • ‘Through a Glass, Clearly’, essay on Riverglass by Paula Williquet-Maricondi, Release Print, November/October, San Francisco   
2004
  • ‘Toward an Eco Cinema’: Riverglass – A River Ballet in Four Seasons, essay by Scott MacDonald (pp 111-114) / ISLE (Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment) Journal, Vol. 11.2 Summer 2004, Reno, Nevada 
 
  • ‘Il cinema immaginale’: ‘Le immagini elementali di Andrej Zdravič’, essay by Paolo Mottana (pp 41-57) / ‘Il Cinema per la formazione’, Alberto Agosti (a cura), Angelli, Milano, 2004    Italian
2002
  • 'Utrip srca - kratki film Andreja Zdraviča’ /Heartbeat, a short film by Andrej Zdravič’, Besim Spahić: Kulturni marketing, Študentska založba, Ljubljana    Slovene/ English
2001
  • ‘The Essence of Filmmaking’ by John Fucile – review of Andrej Zdravič’s films at 47th Flaherty Seminar, New York, 2001, 2014   
 
  • ‘Andrej Zdravič - Pripoved energij, ne zgodba o življenju, življenje samo’ /’Andrej Zdravič - A Tale of Energies, Not a Story About Life but Life Itself’, Jelka Šutej Adamič, Kinotečnik – Slovenska Kinoteka, Ljubljana, september 2001    Slovene
 
  • ‘Ko sta film in življenje eno’ /’When Film And Life Are One’, Vlado Škafar, Finance, 24.9.01    Slovene
2000
  • ‘Riverglass - Rivierballet in vier seizonenen’, Deka Wielenga, Bres, no.201/April-May 2000, the Netherlands
1999
  • ‘Der Triumph des Andrej Zdravič’ – Friedrich Danielis macht sich einen Reim aus der Biennale von Venedig’ /‘The Triumph of Andrej Zdravič - Friedrich Danielis Speaks His Mind about the Venice Biennale’, Wiener Journal (p 49), September, Wien    German
 
  • ‘Čista glasba valovanja’, Nagrada Prešernovega sklada - Andrej Zdravič’ /’Pure Music of Undulation, Prešeren Fund awardee - Andrej Zdravič’, Jelka Šutej Adamič, Delo, 5.2.99    Slovene
 
  • Andrej Zdravič: V steklu reke - almanah Nagrad Prešernovega sklada 1999 /AZ: Riverglass - the Prešern Fund Awardees almanac; award citation, photo by Tone Stojko; Upravni odbor Prešernovega sklada v Ljubljani   
1998
  • ‘Neue TV-Genres’ /’New TV Genres’, Kraft Wetzel, Freitag, Berlin, 29/5/98
1997
  • ‘Kamera v subjektivu reke’ /’Camera in the River’s Subjective’, Ženja Leiler, Delo, 23.6.97    Slovene
 
  • ‘Reka kot velika metafora bivanja’ /’The River as a Great Metaphor of Existence’, Ženja Leiler, Delo, 20.7.97    Slovene
 
  • ‘Balet rečnega toka’ /’The River Flow Ballet’, Slobodan Valentinčič, Primorske Novice, 27.6.97    Slovene
 
  • ‘Življenski utrip reke’ /’The River’s Life Pulse’, essay on Riverglass by dr. Jure Mikuž (unpublished), Ljubljana
1996
  • ‘Sound Visions of Andrej Zdravič’ by Stojan Pelko, Adria Airways in-flight magazine, November 1996   
 
  • ’Monumentalni momenti’ /‘Monumental Moments’, essay by Stojan Pelko, Maska, letnik VI, št.4/6, 96    Slovene
 
  • ‘Zvočno-vizualna vizija sveta’, Retrospektiva Andrej Zdraviča, Ženja Leiler, Delo, 20.2.96
 
  • ‘Skrivnostna lepota sveta’ /’The Secret Beauty of the World’, Pavel Fajdiga, Slovenec, 20.2.96
 
  • ‘Liturgije, ki pomirjajo’ /’Soothing Liturgies’, Milan Dekleva, Dnevnik, 16.2.96
 
  • ‘Proces destilacije sveta’ /’A Process of the World Distillation’, Miha Brun, revija Stop,16.2.96
 
  • ‘Apoteoza narave Andreja Zdraviča - filmske podobe o vsepričujočnosti energije’ /'Andrej Zdravič’s Apotheosis of Nature - Film Images of Ever-Present Energies’, Andreja Paljevac, Republika, 2.2.96
1995
  • ‘Oblaki in Ocean’ /’The Clouds and the Ocean’ - esej v knjigi Bojana Štiha ‘Jesenska fuga o norcu in smrti’, Založba Dan, Ljubljana (N.B.: prvotno objavljen pod naslovom ‘Čudežne igre narave’ / first published as ’The Miraculous Games of Nature’, Dnevnik, 28.3.1987). The author is referring to Zdravič’s films Air Trio and Ocean Beat-in-progress    Slovene/ English
 
  • ‘Iz globin Soče z ljubeznijo’ /’From the Depths of Soča with Love’, Katja Roš, Delo, 27.7.95
1994
  • ‘Andrej Zdravič’ - Jean-Michel Bouhours, Actualités 2, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, juin 1994   
 
  • “Earth Streams’, essay by Jean Breschand, Andrej Zdravič’s retrospective CATALOGUE, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1994    French
 
  • ‘A Curious Alliance : the role of art in a science museum / editor, Ellen Klages ; writers, Mark Bartlet et al.: The ‘Environmental Art at the Exploratorium’ – ‘Andrej Zdravič’s Water Waves’ by Mark Bartlett, Exploratorium, San Francisco 1994
1992
  • ‘The Machines that Conquered the World’ by Mark Bartlett, Artweek, August 20, 1992   
 
  • ‘Water Waves by Andrej Zdravič’, essay by Mark Bartlett, writer, teacher and artist - written for Artweek, San Francisco   
1991
  • ‘Andrej Zdravič’s Films’ by Calvin Ahlgren, written for The San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco
 
  • ‘Pripoved o vodi’ /’The Water Tale’, Ignacija Fridl, Slovenec, 20.9.91
1987
  • ‘Čudežne igre narave’ /’The Miraculous Games of Nature’, Bojan Štih, Dnevnik, 28.3.87
    (N.B.: this essay was subsequently published in the book ‘Jesenska fuga o norcu in smrti’ by Bojan Štih (1995), titled: ‘Oblaki in Ocean’ /’The Clouds and the Ocean’. The author is referring to Zdravič’s films Air Trio and Ocean Beat-in-progress.   
1981
  • Films of Zdravič at Filmforum’ by Linda Gross, Los Angeles Times, September 28, 1981   
1980
  • ‘Zdravič Gives Beauty to Found Objects’ by David Ehrenstein, Los Angeles Herald Examiner, May 27   
 
  • ‘Filmi silijo naj k razmišljanju’ /’Films to Make One Think’, Miha Brun, revija Stop, 3.1.80
1979
  • ‘Filmovi kao “prosvetljenje” – ovi Andreja Zdraviča /’Film as Enlightenment’, Jovan Jovanović, Filmograf, Godina IV/broj 13    Serbian
 
  • ‘Andrej Zdravič’s Films’, review by Vincent Grenier, Idiolects Quarterly, April-May No.5,, New York
1978
  • ‘Filmmaker has Sound Reason for keeping New York Studies Silent’, Brenda Preisner, Buffalo Evening News, November 20
1977
  • ‘Movement Energy’ by Amy Taubin, The Soho Weekly News, New York, May 19, 1977   
1976
  • ‘Movie Journal’ by Jonas Mekas, The Soho Weekly News, New York, May 27, 1976   
1975
  • Phenix - review by Bruce Jenkins, Beau Fleuve Journal, Gerald O’Grady, editor, director Media Study/Buffalo, 1975    English/French

 
Articles & Notes

2012
  • ‘V svetlobah, sencah, tišini, zvoku’, Klavdija Figelj, Primorske novice, 7.1.12
2010
  • ‘Art and Ecology Notebook’: ‘Framing the World - two timely new books on ecocriticism and film’ by Cathy Fitzgerald, December 2010
2009
  • ‘Soča poljubila havajsko lavo - V Trenti sta se srečali Soča in havajska lava’, Kristina Menih, Severna Primorska INFO, 16.6.09
2008
  • ‘Zdravičeva retrospektiva v New Yorku’ /'Zdravič’s Retrospective in New York’, Jelka Šutej Adamič, Delo 28.11.08
 
  • ‘Connecting environment, people, animals through public art fest’, Thaindian News, Delhi, December 13, 2008
2006
  • ‘Umetnikom univerzitetna priznanja’ (‘Priznanje za pomembna umetniška dela’), RTV SLO, 9.5.06
2005
  • ‘Arts & Ecology Project turns the screen green’ – notes on the ‘Towards an Eco-Cinema Conference’ in Bristol, RSA Journal, U.K., October 2005    
2003
  • ‘Quand le cinéma joue avec le feu’. Le nouveau cycle de films de l'Auditorium du Louvre propose de réinscrire le cinéma dans l'histoire pluriséculaire des spectacles pyrotechniques - Emanuel Chicon, l'Humanité, le 1 Mars, 2003    French
 
  • World Poll-Part 3: ‘Olaf Möller’s Eleven Ectasies 2003’: Phenix (Andrej Zdravič, 1975), Senses of Cinema
2002
  • ‘Jonas Mekas: čisto srce’ - on Jonas Mekas by Andrej Zdravič, Kinotečnik, junij/2002, Slovenska Kinoteka, 2002
2001
  • ARTE television Magazine no.18 – 28 avril > 4 mai 2001, Riverglass program notes, France, 2001   
 
  • ‘What Next? ‘Incontro con Andrej Zdravič’, Conferenze sulla creativita contemporanea, Mestre, Centro Culturale Candiani, Cultura & Spettacolo Venezia, il 5 Dicembre 2001    Italian
2000
  • ’Reka kot šampanjec, omamlja še kamne’ /‘A River As Champagne, it Intoxicates Even the Stones’, Katja Roš, Delo, 13.7.00
1999
  • British freelance curator and writer on art, Henry Meyric Hughes’ comment on Zdravič’s Ocean Lava - Time Horizon installation at the Venice Biennale 1999, interview for RTV Slovenia, Venice, 1999
 
  • ‘Orkestracije gibljivih slik, zvoka in prostora” - Slovenci na beneškem bienalu’, Jelka Šutej Adamič, Delo, 10.6.99
 
  • Jonas Mekas' comment on Riverglass (and AZ caricature by Franco Juri), Anthology Film Archives program notes, New York   
1998
  • ARTE Television - Riverglass Program notes, 21.10.98, France
 
  • World EXPO’98, Slovene Pavillion – Vistitor’s thoughts on Zdravič’s Secrets of Soča installation   
 
  • ‘Prešernovi nagrajenci’ /’The Prešeren Fund Awardees’, Delo, 19.12.98
 
  • ‘Znani Prešernovi nagrajenci’ /’The Prešeren Fund Awardees Revealed’, Marijan Zlobec, Delo, 19.12.98
1997
  • ‘Glavna tema U3 - Najbolj fascinanten je video zapis Andreja Zdraviča’ /’The Main Theme of U3 - Triennial of Contemporary Slovene Art – AZ’s Video is the Most Fascinating’, Milan Zinaić, Dnevnik, 28.11.97
 
  • ‘Umetnost noče biti več umetnost’ – Pogovor z umetnostnim zgodovinarjem Juretom Mikužem, Dnevnik, 13.7.97
1995
  • ‘Časovno obzorje Soče’ /’The Soča’s Time Horizon’, Milan Dekleva, Dnevnik (front page), 21.7.95   
 
  • ‘Ekološko srce Slovenije’, Jože Desman, Delo, 6.10.95
 
  • ‘Dom Trenta ustvarja iluzijo’ /’Dom Trenta Creates an Illusion’, Katja Roš, Delo, 24.7.95
1993
  • ‘Environmental Art at the Exploratorium’ by Andrew White, The Examiner, San Francsico, August 11, 1993 
 
  • ‘Where Art Meets Science’ by Tessa DeCarlo, Wall Street Journal, July 26, 1993
 
  • ‘Earth as Art at the Exploratorium’ by David Perlman, San Francisco Chronicle, May 19, 1993
 
  • California Coast & Ocean, p.5, Vol.9 No.3, Summer 1993
1992
  • ‘Playing with Time’ by Nancy Scott, The Examiner, San Francisco
 
  • ‘Slovenski likvidavtor’ /’The Slovene Liquidauthor’, Stojan Pelko, Mladina, 25.8.92
1991
  • ‘7th Film Arts Festival is an Eye-Opener’ by Roibert Anbian, Release Print, San Francisco, October
 
  • 7th Film Arts Festival - Bay Area Independent Film & Video, notes on Ocean Beat, San Francisco
1988
  • 8th Annual Thomas Edison Black Maria Film Festival, notes by director John Columbus, New Jersey
 
  • Expo : Great Cinema, Little Fanfare' by Casey St. Charnez, The Santa Fe Reporter (p.16), February 24, 1988
1984
  • ‘Pregled eksperimentalnih filmov Andreja Zdraviča’ /‘Overview of Andrej Zdravič’s Experimental Films’, Eva Fornazarič, Primorski Dnevnik, 18.3.84
 
  • Notes by Dick Blau, photographer and Film Department chair, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee /N.B.: the author is referring to the volcano footage that was later incorporated in the video installation Ocean Lava - Time Horizon (1999) and in the film Origin (2001)
1983
  • Anastomosis - review by Gordon Ball, poet, filmmaker, USA, 1983
 
  • Anastomosis - review by Dick Blau, photographer and Film Department chair, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, March 12, 1983
1980
  • Sound Activated Films by Andrej Zdravič, Program notes by Carmen Vigil, Film Programmer, The Cinematheque, June-July 1980
1978
  • ‘RECAPS - The Granted Illusions of Three Experimentalists’ by J. Hoberman, Village Voice, N.Y.C., Apr. 10
1977
  • The Cinematheque - Program notes on Phenix by Carmen Vigil, program director, San Francisco
 
  • ‘To Whom it May Concern’ by Jonas Mekas, Anthology Film Archives, New York, May 3, 1975
 
  • ‘Movie Journal’ by Jonas Mekas, The Soho Weekly News, New York, January 6, 1977
1975
  • ‘Buffalo Movie-Makers Produce Kaleidoscope of Personal Views’ by Terry Doran, Buffalo Evening News, May 6, 1975

 
Catalogues & Books 

2013
  • ‘Ein Sechstel der Erde. Über die Beziehung des Bildes zur Welt’ exhibition, ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany / catalog, p 26   
2009
  • ‘Intempérie’ - Il bienal del fin del mundo by Alfons Hug et al., (pp 56-59 & 228-231), Goethe-Institut Rio de Janeiro, 2009   
2008
  • ‘Osebnosti - Veliki Slovenski biografski leksikon’ /’Personalities - The Great Slovene Biographical Lexicon’, (str.1324, Franjo Zdravič, MD / Andrej Zdravič), Založba Mladinska knjiga    Slovene
 
  • Jonas Mekas - Lucca Film Festival 2008 catalogue (cover / pp 71&74), Fundazione Ragghianti, Italy, 2008    Italian
 
  • California Coast & Ocean - Editorial by Rasa Gustaitis, Volume 23, No.4, 2007-2008
2006
  • Secrets of Soča – Time Horizon, essay by Elisabeth Faller, ‘Wasserkunstwelten in der Künstlerstadt Gmünd’ /’Water Art Works at the Art City of Gmünd’/ exhibition catalogue,  Ritter, 2006
2004
  • FotoFest H2O04 - Tenth International Biennial of Photography and Photo-related Art, ‘Celebrating Water’ catalog, on-line notes on the exhibition ‘Language of Water’ by the Institute of Flow Sciences, Germany, accompanied by Andrej Zdravič’s Riverglass, Houston, Texas, March 12 – May 12, 2004   
 
  • ‘La pedagogia immaginale’, essay by Paolo Mottana, form his book ‘La visione smeraldina. Introduzione alla pedagogia immaginale’ (pp 9-19), Mimesis, Milano 2004    Italian
 
  • Gibljive slike z razstave - K filmsko-teoretsko in muzeološko osmišljeni rabi avdiovizualnih medijev, Darja Skrt, Goriški muzej Nova Gorica, 2004
2003
  • ‘The Different Same - Contemporary Art Exchange’, exhibition catalogue (AZ page) by Zhu Tong and Nadja Zgonik, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, China    English/ Chinese
2002
  • ‘Wasser-Symposium’, programme, Luzern, Switzerland    German
 
  • Umetniško delo v povezavi z znanostjo - ustvarjalna praksa Andreja Zdraviča’ /‘Art Work in Connection with Science - the Creative Practice of AZ’, Prostori Umetnosti, urednici: Polona Tratnik, Nika Zupančič, Društvo inovatorjev Ljubljana
2001
  • Artecinema - 6° Festival Internazionale di Film sull’Arte Contemporanea catalogue: Origin page, Naples
       Italian/ English
2000
  • Just like a Shadow by Jonas Mekas, (photograms from films, incl. AZ) edited by Patrick Remy and Jérôme Sans, Steidl
 
  • Wasser, Anlässlich des internationalen Kongresses vom 21.-15.10.1998, Forum der Kunst-und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn /‘Water: Annals of the International Water Congress’. Schriftenreihe Forum, Band 9/I, Redaktion: Bernd Busch und Larissa Förster, Wienand, Köln
1999
  • Andrej Zdravič: Ocean Lava catalogue - Venice Biennale, Slovene pavilion, 1999 (excerpt)   
1998
  • INPUT’98 - International Public Television Screening Conference, program notes on Riverglass, Stuttgart   
1996
  • The Exploratorium, View book, San Francsico, 1996   
 
  • AZ: SoundVision of the World - Sound Films and Installations (1974-1995), retrospective catalogue. Texts by Stojan Pelko, Bojan Štih, Andrej Zdravič et al., edited by AZ and Marjola Zdravič, Slovenska Kinoteka / Cankarjev dom Cultural and Congress Centre, Ljubljana   
1995
  • Darja Skrt, Primorska srečanja (Magazine for social sciences and culture), Nova Gorica, No.176-1995
1993
  • California Coast & Ocean, Vol.9, No.3 – Summer
1981
  • ‘20 Years of American 8mm and Super-8 Films’ screening series program, May 1 - June 30, Anthology Film Archives, New York