Ljubljana je geto? Trailer

A hint to what we are coming up with by December... Check our blog on www.ljubljanajegeto.blogspot.com! 'Ljubljana is a ghetto?' is a project that grew out of a cultural project we were doing in 2006. What happened then, was that we were hearing some statements over and over from the young people we were interviewing in the city streets. It was things like 'welcome to the Jarše ghetto' or... 'look around we are living in a ghetto' etc. Now, we would think that it might be a kind of 'fashion' between youth. But then again not. Ghetto implies fear, violence, isolation, exclusion. Unpleasant feelings that nobody wishes to experience. These are the questions we would like to clear out with this project: Firstly what is a ghetto? Do we and where do we have ghettos in Ljubljana or... Slovenia? And... would that really be a ghetto? What makes us feel unsafe in certain areas? And finally... what can we do to change that? Also how can we promote the changes (positive ones of course)? The project is pursued by a team of animators using interesting and attractive methods for working on the topic. Starting with opening a blogspot as a place to discuss it as openly as possible. Blogspot is a response to one of the modern ways of isolation - staying home behind the computers. And we also believe that this is the way to reach to what people really think. Blogspot will also serve as a journal for our street animation and as a place to publish all the news, events etc. The streetwork will be focused to large appartement buildings areas and other socially less stimulative city areas. Our aim is to get to young people there and invite them to cooperate and co-create the project and as well the development of it's topic. We belive we can do that by using attractive media such as video cameras, photo cameras, internet etc. There will also be basic video editing, digital photo editing and building an internet site workshops organized for those interested. The final product of the project will then be a documentary movie and an internet site or a blog fully equiped with all the info on the project and a nice photo gallery.