Elvis and the Invisible Tourists (2026)
Three-channel video installation with sound
Monitors, aluminium structure, bench, headphones
Duration: approx. 40 min
In an interview, the local resident Elvis narrates the historical, present and possible future uses of the former military base of Sepurine in Croatia, which functions both as the site and subject of the film.
The site's history, carried in the form of found footage, is performatively relocated by a group of extraneous wanderers. Contrasted by documentary material, the film assembles a fragmentary narrative of Sepurine military base, which is explored, analysed and categorised from an observational distance.
The former military base of Sepurine is portrayed as a heterotopia, where the politics that operate on the site are disclosed: historical continuities of symbols of power and control, the persistence of military structures and remilitarisation in Europe, capitalist imperatives of profit as well as
questions regarding ownership of sites of historical significance.
The film operates as a carrier bag for a multi-perspective portrayal of the site. Sepurine in itself was - and continues to be - a container for its histories, present actions taking place on and with it, and speculative futures yet to unfold.
Literature:
MacCannell, Dean: The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class, Berkeley: University of California Press 1999 [1976). Le Guin, Ursula K.: The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, in: Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words,
Women, Places, New York: Grove Press, 1989 [1986]. Foucault, Michel: Andere Räume, in: Barck, Karlheinz u.a.. (Hg.), Aisthesis. Wahrnehmung heute oder Perspektiven einer
anderen Asthetik, Leipzig 1992. S. 34 - 46 [1967].
Text by Eva Blüml
Performers
Béla Juttner
Dominik Lekavski
Emma Mann
Felix Kohler
Jonas, Yamer,
Lynne Azzam
Predrag Pele Petrovic
Rose Ford, Samar Darouiche
Simon Christians
Starring Elvis Peros
Hospitality
Zana Lekavski
Zdravko Lekavski
BTS Emma Mann
Sound design and O.S.T. Dominik Lekavski
Assistant director/writer, costume supervisor Kiawash Sallehsari
1st unit DOP David Goldberg
2nd unit DOP Pablo Lauf
Written, directed and edited by Anja Lekavski