Agency - French program:.Animation and Youth Studio.

Director, Theodore Ushev ; sound design, Olivier Calvert ; re-recording, Serge Boivin ; digital imaging specialist, Pierre Plouffe ; executive producer, René Chénier ; producer, Marc Bertrand.

Recorded 2012.

Gloria Victoria unfolds on the still-smouldering rubble of a furious 20th century, propelled by the exalting "invasion" theme from Shostakovich's Leningrad Symphony (No. 7). Resembling a military march with bolero overtones, the music sweeps over imagery of combat fronts and massacres, leading us from Dresden to Guernica, from the Spanish Civil War to star wars. It is at once a symphony that serves the war machine, that stirs the masses, and art that mourns the dead, voices its outrage and calls for peace. Gloria Victoria is the third film in a trilogy on the relationship between art and power. It is the work of an exceptionally gifted filmmaker and multi-faceted artist, a virtuoso of collage and recycling who conjures up everything from surrealism to Dracula, and makes cubist constructions emerge from the horror of dismembered bodies. Through a multitude of quotations, allusions and references, Theodore Ushev orchestrates a thundering nightmare in the name of peace.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Best Film, 2013 Bulgarian Filmmakers Union Award, 2014 Grand Prix, 2014 FIPRESCI Award, 2013 Grand prix expérimental du jury- assorti d'une bourse de 1000 euros, 2014

Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2023-08-10).