SLOVENKA (2009)
Motion picture
Directed by Damjan Kozole
Produced by Vertigo / Emotion Film
More info: www.slovenka.si
(in Slovene and English)
Slovenka (Slovenian Girl), director Damjan
Kozole's eighth film, features the story of Alexandra, a 23-year-old
student of English language, whose secret source of income is prostitution.
Alexandra has plans for her life, but life is not as easy as she has expected.
Slovenka features Silence's very first motion picture soundtrack. Kozole decided
to use the acoustic version of Runalong - the last track
from Silence's fourth album, Vain - a Tribute to a Ghost - as the
movie's main theme. All the compositions featured in the movie are therefore
adaptations or permutations of Runalong.
The music, lyrical and ethereal, provides a glance beneath Alexandra's thick-skinned
appearance. The soundtrack features two instruments; the piano (interpreted
by Hladnik) and the acoustic guitar (interpreted by Katja Porovne
Silic). In order to achieve a distinctive sound, Silence amplified
parts of the instruments that are usually disregarded, despite the interesting
sounds they produce. In The Procurers, for instance, the sound of
the piano is considerably quieter than the sound of Hladnik's foot pressing
the piano's sustain pedal.
The soundtrack was recorded and produced in Silence's private production facility,
the Daily Girl studio. The world premiere of Slovenka took place
at the Sarajevo Film Festival in August 2009.
01. Opening Theme
02. Convulsion
03. Guitar Theme #1
04. Guitar Theme #2
05. Guitar Theme #3
06. The Procurers
07. Runalong (acoustic version)
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