Laibach was soon joined by a painting group, Irwin, and theater group, Red Pilot, at the helm of one of the most ambitious and controversial arts collectives in the world. Modeled after a socialist state bureaucracy and calling itself Neue Slowenische Kunst (New Slovenian Arts, or more commonly NSK), these three groups became the titular heads of a micro-state within the newly independent republic of Slovenia. NSK recently began issuing its own passports and opened embassies and consulates in Moscow, Berlin, Ghent, Florence, and soon, in Beijing.

Although Predictions of Fire documents the work of the NSK collective, positioning their work within the history of ex-Yugoslavia, the film emerges as more than an arts documentary. Predictions of Fire offers surprising insight into the current Yugoslav conflict and the ongoing trauma experienced by generations of Eastern Europeans raised in totalitarian regimes.

Three years in the making, Predictions of Fire is a co-production of New York-based Kinetikon Picures and TV Slovenia, and was filmed in Slovenia, New York, Moscow, Athens, Greece and Belgrade, Serbia. Additional funding was received from the New York State Council on the Arts.