OHO Film

by Damjan Kozole

OHO Film, 2025, documentary, digital DCP, 1,85:1, 24, c + bw, 93 min
Finished
SI, HR
OHO is categorized as one of the most interesting, complex and important examples of avant-garde art and counterculture of the 1960s in ex-Yugoslavia and beyond, in Central and Eastern Europe. The OHO documentary, with its rich archival material, aims to comprehensively capture the phenomenon of the OHO movement and group for the first time. At the same time, it aims to capture the spirit of a time marked by socialism, hippie and rock culture, the Vietnam War, the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia, student protests around the world, and the Cold War. A time that we thought was dead and gone but is dangerously returning to its darkest dimensions. In addition to providing historical illumination, the film will follow OHO's ideas via its members’ stories throughout time – all the way to the present day, to explore the relevance of OHO for the present time.
screenwriters
Urška Jurman, Damjan Kozole, Matic Drakulić
director
Damjan Kozole
producers
Danijel Hočevar, Zala Opara
co-producer
Marinko Sudac
director of photography
Sašo Štih
film editor
Matic Drakulić
sound designer
Julij Zornik
featuring
Marko Pogačnik, Naško Križnar, Iztok Geister, Milenko Matanović, Matjaž Hanžek, David Nez, Marika Pogačnik, Tomaž Brejc, Biljana Tomić, Ješa Denegri, Marina Abramović
production
Vertigo
co-production
RTV Slovenija
in collaboration with
GO! 2025 Nova Gorica - Gorizia Evropska prestolnica kulture, Film Studio Viba Film, Društvo Igor Zabel za kulturo in teorijo, Ljubljana Museum of Modern Art
co-funding
Slovenian Film Centre, Creative Europe - MEDIA, Ministry of Public Administration of the Republic of Slovenia

Vertigo
Danijel Hočevar
danijel@vertigo.si
Zala Opara
zala@vertigo.si

Damjan Kozole

Damjan Kozole is a Slovenian filmmaker, whose directing credits include critically acclaimed Spare Parts (2003), nominated for the Golden Bear at the 53rd Berlin IFF 2003; globally released Slovenian Girl (2009); Nightlife (2016), winner of Best Director Award at the 51st Karlovy Vary IFF; and his last fiction feature Half-Sister (2019). Kozole is also a respectable author of many documentary films like Ulay: Project Cancer (2013) and Borders (2016).

“The creativity and subversiveness of OHO remain inspiring even today, more than half a century later. The film presents the key episodes of this avant-garde artistic and cultural phenomenon while also exploring what OHO’s ideas can offer us in the present day.”
Vesna Award special achievement award (Festival of Slovenian Film, 2025)