KADA JE ZAZVONIO TELEFON
WHEN THE PHONE RANG
Performance
The continuous loop with which Iva Radivojević constructs her film is a metaphor for the continuous loop of memories in the mind. What was this moment when the trauma broke through? In this case, that Friday morning at 10:36 a.m. A moment that keeps coming back. After that, everything happened pretty quickly, home dissolved. Radivojević remembers her own trauma and knows that she is not alone in this. That's why the country that is lost here is called "the country that no longer exists". The director on the timing of making her film:
„After leaving Yugoslavia, I grew up in Cyprus. Then, I lived in the U.S. for a long time before returning to Greece. Something about returning to the culture I grew up in triggered something. You get so busy surviving that you don’t have the time to address your trauma, and at some point, it comes up and wants to talk to you. It felt like the right moment for it, especially with the mass dislocation happening all over the world." Quote
Radivojević finds a thoughtful, almost meditative tone for her film. The omnipresent threat and the lifelong memory of what we succinctly refer to as the ‘loss of home’ fills the cinema screen: in hushed tones, torn and omnipresent.
Text: Bernd Buder
08.11.2024 | 10:30 | Weltspiegel Saal 2 (original version with English and German subtitles)
09.11.2024 | 15:30 | Weltspiegel Großer Saal (original version with English and German subtitles)
Iva Radivojević
Martin DiCicco
Leandros Ntounis @ I Heard Voices - Athens, Greece
Iva Radivojević
Natalija Ilinčić / Srna Vasić / Vasilije Zečević / Danica Maksimović / Anton Augustinov/ Mila Drobnjak / Dunja Vladisavljević / Ivana Pančić / Ibro Sakić / Slavica Bajčeta
Genoveva Petrovits
Iva Radivojević - Iva Radivojevic was born in Belgrade and spent her early years in Yugoslavia, Cyprusand eventually NYC. She is an artist and filmmaker who currently divides her time between Athens and Lesbos. Iva's films have screened at the New York Film Festival, New Directors/New Films, Rotterdam IFF, CPH:DOX, Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, DocLisboa, Museum of Modern Art (NYC), Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art and were commissioned by ARTE La Lucarne and Field of Vision. She is the recipientof the Sundance Art of Non-Fiction Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, JeromeFellowship, NYFA Fellowship, Princess Grace Special Project Award and Film Fellowship. Avenue of The Living, her new art book was recently published by Big BlackMountain Press. She’s a PhD candidate at Villa Arson in Nice.
