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title: "Anja Lekavski"
date: 2026-01-05
author: "Peter Reill"
categories:
  - name: "Diplom 26"
    url: "https://www.adbk.de/diplom-26.md"
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# Anja Lekavski

 

 **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**


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