Ivana Miloš, Three Reeds (2022), monotype, gouache, collage, and nature print with reeds on paper.The line of dancing children on the shorewas life exploding from the drought.Among thin reeds and branches the human plantgrew in pure air.—“Cuttlefish Bones,” Eugenio MontaleSometimes, in order to understand the meaning of a plant in a film, it is necessary to look for the same plant in another film. The majestic reed beds that appear towards the tragic finale of a breathless chase sequence between Nazi soldiers and two partisans in the middle part of Aleksandar Petrović’s devastating anti-war parable Three (1965) seemed strangely familiar when I first saw the film. I also saw them in a beautiful document of a disappearing way of life, Obrad Gluščević’s Ljudi s Neretve (1966). Both films were shot around the same time, in the middle of the 1960s, in one of Yugoslavia’s most fertile regions,...
- 12/21/2022
- MUBI
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