Yugoslavia – How Ideology Moved Our Collective Body
2013 | 62 min | Documentary
The film looks at how ideology performed itself in public space through mass performances in socialist Yugoslavia.
Marta Popivoda
DirectorMarta Popivoda is a Serbian film director known for her experimental and documentary works. She has gained recognition for her films such as "Yugoslavia, How Ideology Moved Our Collective Body" and "Landscapes of Resistance." Popivoda's projects often explore themes of history, politics, and memory. While specific awards may not be readily available, her innovative approach to filmmaking has earned her acclaim in the international film community.
Films
Mass Ornaments
2013 | 79 min | Icons & Media Art
This work investigates a controversial mass performance from the late Yugoslav era – the Youth Day celebration (“slet”) in 1987.
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Mass Ornaments
2013 | 79 min | Icons & Media Art
The slet was a hybrid socialist spectacle that displayed striking signs of the country’s imminent collapse, which spectators seemingly didn’t “see”. We take the “blind” spectators as the video’s main protagonists.
How to Shoot a President?
1991 | 34 min | Icons & Media Art
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Children Below Deck
2018 | 94 min | Documentary
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On the margins
2015 | 82 min | Documentary
In Margina, Ljupcho Temelkovski accompanies a Roma family in Macedonia. The film observes the laborious everyday life of the characters, marked by deprivation, humiliation and racism. The many-member family lives together in cramped conditions. The men try to earn money with informal odd jobs and show great talent for improvisation. Margina was shot over a long period of time with a 3-person team. The film succeeds in getting surprisingly close to the people in their private everyday lives. The ...
The Paper Bridge
1987 | 92 min | Documentary
"A touching film full of melancholic tension." (John Bunzl, Wien Tagebuch) "I don't know exactly why I traveled east this winter," filmmaker Ruth Beckermann says of her journey through Eastern Europe. "I think I was just curious to know whether there was still any resemblance to the stories I grew up with." Beckermann's parents met in Vienna after the Holocaust; her father was a war refugee from Romania and her mother was a native of Vienna who settled in Palestine in 1938. Tracing the migratory ...
Duerer’s Heirs
1996 | 58 min | Documentary
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Mit dem Wort Wende
2009 | 3 min | Shorts
Filmmaker Juliane Henrich explores the term "Wende" (course change) by means of a speech by Christa Wolf, which she gave shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall at the Alexanderplatz in Berlin. A time-lapse recording of the Berlin television tower is intertwined with fragments of Wolf's speech on 04.11.1989. The writer called into question the term "Wende", which today is synonymous with the peaceful revolution of 1989, but it was actually SED Secretary General Egon Krenz who first spoke of a ...
Museum Revolution
2014 | 76 min | Documentary
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Frozen Conflict
2018 | 60 min | Documentary
One of Europe's strangest borders lies between the Republic of Moldova and the de facto autonomous region of Transnistria. The territory serves as a hostage for larger geopolitical interests: Three soldiers stand guard at this trilateral checkpoint. The factions in this conflict, Moldova, Transnistria and Russia, gather here under one roof. Not a particularly dramatic situation - rather a kind of waiting for Godot and a parable for positive coexistence of the different population groups. Starting ...
My Wonderful West Berlin
2017 | 98 min | Documentary
The newest addition to Jochen Hick's Berlin trilogy about gay life in Germany's capital city - with many current political references. The film explores the roots and the fascination of a city that is still a dream destination and refuge for many gay men from all over the world. Jochen Hick interviews local luminaries such as Romy Haag, Rosa von Praunheim, Ades Zabel and Udo Walz. He and they talk their lives and the struggles they've endured. From the Homosexual Action West Berlin (HAW) to the ...