Creating Alternative Discourses: Contemporary Photography Between Mass Media and Art Practice Edited transcript of the lecture which took place at the conference Beyond the Documentary on 9 September 2017 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb in frames of Organ vida. International Photography Festival. Cover Photo: Ivan Petrovic, Students, 2006.…
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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…
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…
About a year ago I found and hastily watched a three-hour documentary titled The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu (2010) directed by Andrei Ujica. I was thrilled. The director managed to create something rare and extraordinary: he made an extensive documentary without narration and therefore without any comments. The understanding and…
Ulrich Seidl shows (allegedly) the dark side of suburbia The newest film of the notorious Austrian film director Ulrich Seidl is a great collection of unusual images, impressions from the private lives of ordinary people. If only such thing existed. The film actually proves that even the most (allegedly) normal,…