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Posted On: October 28th 2023, 10:43 am
See you tonight at the opening of the exhibition Twisted Lullabies at Atelierele Malmaison!
We start the opening with a special screening which will take place at @cazul101
19.00 - 20.02: "Umetnost sećanja"/"Milestones" (2019), a film by Jelena Radenović
"Milestones" is a documentary film about memorial monuments built in former Yugoslavia after World War II. It was the time when art and culture were key vehicles for construction of the new social identity and an educational tool for the community. Decades after the dismay of the last socialist traces in the territory of former Yugoslavia, amazing memorial monuments persist to prove that art can survive ideologies and political systems, always finding new paths to the audience.
20.02 – 21.20: Flotacija, 2023, 1h 17m by Eluned Zoe Aiano & Alesandra Tatić
In Majdanpek, Serbia, a culture historically renowned for magical practices and supernatural creatures is being eaten away by an ever-expanding copper mine. A giver and taker of life, the mine is central to the regional economy but a major threat to traditional practices of the local Vlach population, a minority ethnicity within the Balkans that is often stigmatised and overlooked. The pollution is so critical it's even driving out the dragons said to live in the forests.
These conflicts between nature/tradition and industry/modernity shape the lives of the family of Dragan, a miner by profession and dragon hunter by tradition. His 90-year old father "Grandpa" Pera was a dragon hunting legend whose fame crossed borders, but how is Dragan supposed to continue his legacy when there are no dragons left? In any case, he has more pressing concerns, such as the chronic health problems he's struggling with as a result of decades of inhaling toxic dust. Moreover, his own son Cvele doesn't seem to have any option but to follow him into the mine and keep perpetuating the cycle.
see you there!
@zoetropius
@aletatic
@jelena_radenovic_jr
***after the opening event, you can visit the exhibition and see the films @matka_in_action
We start the opening with a special screening which will take place at @cazul101
19.00 - 20.02: "Umetnost sećanja"/"Milestones" (2019), a film by Jelena Radenović
"Milestones" is a documentary film about memorial monuments built in former Yugoslavia after World War II. It was the time when art and culture were key vehicles for construction of the new social identity and an educational tool for the community. Decades after the dismay of the last socialist traces in the territory of former Yugoslavia, amazing memorial monuments persist to prove that art can survive ideologies and political systems, always finding new paths to the audience.
20.02 – 21.20: Flotacija, 2023, 1h 17m by Eluned Zoe Aiano & Alesandra Tatić
In Majdanpek, Serbia, a culture historically renowned for magical practices and supernatural creatures is being eaten away by an ever-expanding copper mine. A giver and taker of life, the mine is central to the regional economy but a major threat to traditional practices of the local Vlach population, a minority ethnicity within the Balkans that is often stigmatised and overlooked. The pollution is so critical it's even driving out the dragons said to live in the forests.
These conflicts between nature/tradition and industry/modernity shape the lives of the family of Dragan, a miner by profession and dragon hunter by tradition. His 90-year old father "Grandpa" Pera was a dragon hunting legend whose fame crossed borders, but how is Dragan supposed to continue his legacy when there are no dragons left? In any case, he has more pressing concerns, such as the chronic health problems he's struggling with as a result of decades of inhaling toxic dust. Moreover, his own son Cvele doesn't seem to have any option but to follow him into the mine and keep perpetuating the cycle.
see you there!
@zoetropius
@aletatic
@jelena_radenovic_jr
***after the opening event, you can visit the exhibition and see the films @matka_in_action
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