Today she is not alone – Italian premiere

Dear friends,

It is my pleasure to announce that my new movie “She is not alone” will premiere in Italy on the molise cinema festival on August 7th 2008, in the section: “BURN!” – videoarte. And for more information about upcoming events, just check my website.

Love,

Ivan

A superhero has to learn to let go

Dear friends,

A friend of mine: Lena Boehm, shot this pic. It portrays Sarah and me in front of the Tape club, Berlin. This is one of the many great pix she took of us. Aren’t we hot?! One photo will make it to the Intro magazine next June. Be sure to get it and read the interview with Sarah and me. The concept was to interview selectors from a couple of Berlin’s best clubs. It was fun and crazy:) Thank you Lena. To see other pix from the shoot, please go to the bottom of this post.

And as for my return to Berlin from Dubai… hmm… what can I say, after each fairy tale comes a time when you have to

Today she is not alone – premiere coming up

Dear friends,

Another looong weekend is over and I am forced to retake my life into my own hands and restart my editing, managing, sports routine and so on. The Biennale experience is fading away and I have calmed down after all the bumpy rides and night events Berlin had to offer these days. I have seen a performance in the Kunst Werke two nights ago… it was part of the “Biennale by night program”… I will not even comment because I don’t want to start sounding like an uptight bitch. I swear there are things I really like a lot and I do not criticize everything but a person is allowed to have an opinion and be picky, so I am just being honest.

My friend, Emanuela, saw “Today she is not alone” and will organize a screening of the movie in Rome, later this year. Those are great news. As soon as the date and place are fixed, I will post the details of the premiere of the movie. The official premiere will be in Dubai in May. Where in Dubai is still not clear though. Right after the premiere I will start applying for several short film festivals across the globe so the movie might hit your city too. I will keep you posted.

The sound editing has not been completed yet so the movie is officially still not ready.

Kiss,

Ivan

arty-farty updates :)

Hello everybody,

I thought it might be interesting to update what exactly is happening here in Berlin in these days…

The city is getting ready for the Berlin Biennale and I will be there… hope to see some great stuff, and hope is the last to die, right?! But more about the Biennale in detail starting from April 4th 2008.

Another great thing is that one of my dearest friends is coming to town tomorrow all the way from Paris. He will be staying with me and will be the Dj of the week in Berlin! I will post the place, time and event name tomorrow! He kicks ass and I hope whoever is in Berlin will go to see him at his best!

“Today she is not alone” is still in the works, but I have finished a first version which could make it to be the final version too. I will screen it this week for the people who worked with me on the project so that I can get their feedback and see if some more things have to be changed before I wrap it up for good. And then I will go into the poster process and other packaging for the video.

So, I gotta run to do some sports. Time vanishes so fast and there is too much to do.

Today she is not alone – update

Hello everybody. Today she is not alone is still in the making. I took a short period of not even two days to distance myself from the project. I think it’s important to do so because it gives you the right focus to go on editing. After some time of not working on your project, you can actually see it from a different perspective. You manage to observe in a more critical way what you have done and you can see better where the mistakes lay and you get a better feeling about how to improve things. So after a break you are replenished, fresh and ready to confront yourself with your own work in a much more productive manner. Here is the second teaser…

Today she is not alone – the editing

Hello everybody. I have had another intense day of editing and Frank was there to help me. He’s a genius when it comes to harmony in video, editing, motion and sound. So I got me the best so to say. We were basically working on several edits and cuts between scenes. I had a rough cut version that is slowly taking shape and is becoming more soft. Frank went home promising he will think about the entire project and we will meet again soon when it is in a more advanced state. Right now the big question is

Today she is not alone – behind the scenes

Dear friends, I am so thrilled with the response the teaser has had! It hasn’t been on the net for even 24 hours yet and it has already had over 430 views on youtube only! It is more than I could hope for! Thank you all! Plus, since yesterday I have received so many mails from friends and they were all positive. I really hope that “Today she is not alone” will fulfill your expectations! Here is another still from behind the scenes of the shoot. Viola had to walk a lot on high heels in the entire movie. It was very difficult when your heel is 17 centimeters high!

An interesting info about the movie is that we filmed it in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in Marina Abramovic’s house. Unfortunately, Marina moved out of that beautiful building some time ago. This means that this video will be the last official shoot from her home before she moved away. Marina was very

Today she is not alone – a movie by Ivan Civic

Dear family and friends, I am happy to be able to say that yet another week of over 14 hours of work a day have begun to pay off. I am in the middle of the process of editing my new video and it is difficult. I am pushing the capacities of my computer to the limit! It can’t really keep up with the high expectations I have and demand. So I will probably have to finish the editing on another, stronger computer. All I want to say about the movie right now is that it will be made in three different versions.

Civic makes an Ivan movie

Dear everybody. I started editing a long awaited project of mine… this picture shows how the behind the scenes looked like at the time… a lot of confusion and props. I am doing my best to edit the project properly. It has all just begun so I can’t say anything about the plot, or about music, excetera… but I am excited! Hitting the editing room is always a drag in the beginning but after some time you really get into it and pretty soon time starts flying so quickly, you don’t even notice its passing. I went to bed at 9:30pm last night (or should I say evening?!) and I woke up at 6:30 this morning… I awoke with the first rays of light! It is really sublime having a rhythm like this one. I hope I’ll keep up with it after the weekend passes and my night job kills me… oh well… so much for my good intentions.