![Solidarity Network [Gildo Bavcevic]](https://mihacolner.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Gildo-Bavcevic-02-600x300.jpg "Solidarity Network [Gildo Bavcevic]")
About the documentary, entitled Solidarity Network (2013) by artist and filmmaker Gildo Bavčević. The short text was initially published in VASA Journal for images and Culture. The Solidarity Network documentary is a compilation of direct actions and protests against the repressive apparatus of transitional elites in the city (and surrounding areas)…
![Blue Wall Red Door [Alban Muja]](https://mihacolner.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Alban-Muja-Blue-Wall-Red-Door-01-670x300.jpg "Blue Wall Red Door [Alban Muja]")
The text is about the film by Alban Muja & Yll Citaku, entitled Blue Wall Red Door (2009) It was initially published for the VASA film series In the Land of… showcases works of artists and filmmakers from the territory of former Yugoslavia who work in the field of so…
On the book by Bojana Kunst, The Artist at Work: The Proximity of Art and Capitalism, Zero Books, 2015 [Umetnik na delu: bližina umetnosti in kapitalizma, Maska, 2013] The article was first published in Slovenian language in the Art Words magazine [Likovne besede], issue 98, winter 2013 At a time…
The essay was written in 2012 for the publication of the Aftermath. Changing Cultural Landscape project that displayed and analysed tendencies of engaged contemporary photography on the territory of former Yugoslavia after its break-up. The publication is available as e-book at Photon online bookshop and the content is partially available…
![Few Miles of the History of Cyprus [Stelios Kallinikou]](https://mihacolner.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Lady-Mile-01-670x300.jpg "Few Miles of the History of Cyprus [Stelios Kallinikou]")
About the Lady’s Mile series of photographs (2014-2015) by the Cypriot artist and photographer Stelios Kallinikou The project was part of the group show Borderlines at The House of Cyprus in Athens in frames of Athens Photo Festival 2015. There is a certain affinity among contemporary photographers to record and…
![Confronting the Death… Again [Goran Bertok]](https://mihacolner.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/bertok-najava-mailing-02-591x300.jpg "Confronting the Death… Again [Goran Bertok]")
A introductory text for Goran Bertok‘s exhibition Survivors that took place in January 2013 at Photon – Centre for Contemporary Photography in Ljubljana “One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic” Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin Wars, states of emergency and continuing repression are immense breeding places for the pogroms…
Extensive essay about group Buldožer, one of the first rock bands and counterculture phenomena from Yugoslavia. The entire text is published in a book accompanying the retrospective exhibition “Fly-Posting Prohibited: The Story of Buldožer” that celebrates the fortieth anniversary of formation of the band – in Photon – Centre for…
The essay was written for the exhibition of Goran Micevski & Ivan Petrović: “In Dialogue with Photography” at Photon – Centre for Contemporary Photography (12 March – 18 April 2014) Goran Micevski and Ivan Petrović detect and deliberate the reality of their cultural and social milieu in very peculiar ways.…
About the Kristijan Milić’s heroic saga on the Croatian civil war (1991-1995) I somehow like genre of war films even though they are most often terribly biased. Their usual purpose is, unfortunately, pure propaganda. However, there are rare exceptions of war films which are ambivalent in their discourse dealing with…
Bitter Lake, a documentary directed by Adam Curtis, released on BBC iplayer in 2015. Adam Curtis has once more made a documentary which can be – without deliberating – proclaimed a masterpiece. Commissioned by BBC it has only been available online and has not been broadcast on TV. I have…