Filmmaker, video artist and “cultural worker” Marta Popivoda has spent much of her career focusing on philosophies and movements through a decidedly feminist lens. Her first feature, 2013’s Yugoslavia, How Ideology Moved Our Collective Body, premiered at the Berlinale and went on to become part of the permanent collection at MoMA. And now with Landscapes of Resistance, which debuted in the Tiger Competition at IFFR 2021, the Berlin-based filmmaker returns to her native Belgrade with her partner, and the film’s co-writer, Ana Vujanović. Together they gently probe and cinematically preserve the memory of Vujanović’s grandmother Sonja, who brings to life an […]
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The post “This Film is a Call to Solidarity, Self-Organization and Resistance”: Marta Popivoda and Ana Vujanović on their International Film Festival Rotterdam-debuting Landscapes of Resistance first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 2/10/2021
- by Lauren Wissot
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Filmmaker, video artist and “cultural worker” Marta Popivoda has spent much of her career focusing on philosophies and movements through a decidedly feminist lens. Her first feature, 2013’s Yugoslavia, How Ideology Moved Our Collective Body, premiered at the Berlinale and went on to become part of the permanent collection at MoMA. And now with Landscapes of Resistance, which debuted in the Tiger Competition at IFFR 2021, the Berlin-based filmmaker returns to her native Belgrade with her partner, and the film’s co-writer, Ana Vujanović. Together they gently probe and cinematically preserve the memory of Vujanović’s grandmother Sonja, who brings to life an […]
The post “This Film is a Call to Solidarity, Self-Organization and Resistance”: Marta Popivoda and Ana Vujanović on their International Film Festival Rotterdam-debuting Landscapes of Resistance first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post “This Film is a Call to Solidarity, Self-Organization and Resistance”: Marta Popivoda and Ana Vujanović on their International Film Festival Rotterdam-debuting Landscapes of Resistance first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 2/10/2021
- by Lauren Wissot
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Landscapes of Resistance tells the story of Sonja Vujanović, a nice old lady whose one-time battle against the Nazis landed her inside their most notorious concentration camp. As both artist and theorizer, director Marta Popivoda thinks critically about her subject. Combined with the desire to give Sonja’s inspiring life the attention it deserves, this makes for a singular documentary. Overlapping interviews with hypnotic countryside vistas, Landscapes took ten years to make. Although Sonja herself didn’t live to see the film’s release, her words remain, warning against a future in which fascism threatens to rear its ugly head once more.
With intensely personal revalations, Sonja is allowing viewers access to her most private memories––from the books she exchanged with her first boyfriend to the beatings she received from the German officers that interrogated her. Popivoda’s camerawork follows suit. When her lens isn’t aimed outside, it’s fixed on Sonja herself.
With intensely personal revalations, Sonja is allowing viewers access to her most private memories––from the books she exchanged with her first boyfriend to the beatings she received from the German officers that interrogated her. Popivoda’s camerawork follows suit. When her lens isn’t aimed outside, it’s fixed on Sonja herself.
- 2/8/2021
- by Tim Brinkhof
- The Film Stage
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