In an unexplored vault in Belgrade, the capital of the former Yugoslavia, lies a collection of films known as “the Labudovi Reels.” On them are images of African and Asian liberation movements and revolutionary leaders that defined the era of the 1960s. How is it that the archive of these revolutions lies on another continent, forgotten in a film archive The answer to this qu...
After 45 years of single-party communist rule in Serbia, political parties gained legal status in 1990, and the first multiparty elections in Serbian history were held. Four ex-presidential candidates, today’s misfits, bring back memories of the elections and relive that crucial event, not realizing that they played only supporting roles.
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After losing his dog, an eccentric artist from Belgrade embarks on a journey to look for his pet. Throughout his quest, we will get to know a number of strange characters. The filmmaker’s humorous approach opens up a dialogue about different philosophical questions related to art, representation, identity, nature, history, ethics and politics.
A silent landscape flashes past the windows of a moving car conveying different sets of passengers. The conversations veer towards such diverse themes as carol-singing, nuclear waste, and the dangers of hornets’ nests. Tea Luka’s anthropological probe gets by with a minimum of cinematic devices in order to deliver a focused study of the phenomena of memory, history and traditi...
In 1972, Ibrahim Hoti undertook the Hajj, travelling to Mecca on a spiritual pilgrimage. On the return journey, his bus made an unscheduled stop at the bustling Baghdad bazaar, where he bought gifts for his family. Within a day of his return to Kosovo, Hoti began to feel feverish. A fever then became a rash.
Composed entirely of archival footage, and narrated by the burnt-in-me...
Peter Handke received the Nobel Prize for Literature in October 2019 in Stockholm. Having heard about it, Srdjan Petrovi – a winemaker from the Serbian village of Velika Hoa in Kosovo decided to place a commemorative plaque with an embossed portrait of Handke in his wine shop, that the famous writer had visited on a number of occasions. But is the winemaker aware that Handke’...
Cultural Worker 3 in 1 is a documentary film about the role of the left-oriented independent cultural-artistic scene and cultural workers in the region of ex-Yugoslavia. Following the life and work of several characters in four cities of former Yugoslavia the film explores two issues – what it means to be a cultural worker in post-socialist contexts of Skopje, Belgrade, Zagreb ...
“The wind got up in the night and took our plans away,” reads the proverb in the opening titles of Museum of the Revolution. The words are a reference to the 1961 plan to build a grand museum in Belgrade as a tribute to Socialist Yugoslavia. It was supposed to “safeguard the truth” about the Yugoslav people. But the plan never got beyond the construction of the basement.
The de...
When an out-of-work actor accidentally discovers through Facebook that he's been wildly famous in a faraway land for almost two decades, he sets out to discover the reasons why. SLAUGHTER NICK FOR PRESIDENT is a behind-the-scenes look at the entertainment biz and a heart-warming tale of redemption that reveals little-known facts about the extraordinary peaceful overthrow of a b...
“行为艺术教母”玛莉娜(Marina Abramovi)离乡南斯拉夫贝尔格勒40年,在世界各大城市表演都吸引百万人次观赏,都愿意排队等上数个小时,只为换来一对一的凝视关系。此次回乡苦乐参半,十年来聚集一群年轻艺术家,跟着她一起表演,英雄崇拜和渴望伴随着经验,继承她的灵魂与志业。
电影开始时,玛莉娜说:“我来自于南斯拉夫一个黑暗的地方。”多年后,这位塞尔维亚的行为艺术终于能重回她的家乡到贝尔格勒,这段旅程带领我们到了各个城市,包括她的巡回展览《清洁者》。
艺术家透过此片回顾了自己与祖国,父母和自己身体之间的动荡关系,并回顾了她如何跨越国家之间以及创作者和观众之间的边界。她的作品也在电影画面中如实呈现,此外电影也出现了年轻表演者诠释她的表演,如雨后春笋一样,这些年轻表演者就像她的孩子一样,他们继承了“母亲”的遗产。