Serbia/ 2020/ 95’
DIRECTED BY: Marta Popivoda
SCREENPLAY BY: Marta Popivoda, Ana Vujanović
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Ivan Marković
EDITED BY: Jelena Maksimović
PRODUCERS: Marta Popivoda, Dragana Jovović
PRODUCED BY: Theory at Work, Bocalupo Films
FESTIVALS & AWARDS: Cinéma du Réel (Winner – Libraries Award), Jeonju Film Festival (Winner – Best Picture), Jerusalem Film Festival, Rotterdam International Film Festival, Sarajevo Film Festival (Winner – Heart of Sarajevo), Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival (Winner – Golden Alexander), Beldocs (Winner – Best Picture)
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Landscapes of Resistance traces a journey through the memories of antifascist fighter Sonja (97), one of the first women Partisans in Yugoslavia, who was also among the leaders of the Resistance movement at Auschwitz. We make her story travel through time towards the bodies of a new generation of antifascists, suggesting that it is always possible to think and practice resistance.
Marta Popivoda is a filmmaker, video artist, and researcher. Her work explores tensions between memory and history, collective and individual bodies, as well as ideology and everyday life, with a focus on antifascist and feminist potentialities of the Yugoslav socialist project. She cherishes collective practice in art-making and research, and for several years has been part of the TkH (Walking Theory) collective. Popivoda’s first feature documentary, Yugoslavia, How Ideology Moved Our Collective Body, premiered at the 63rd Berlinale and was later screened at many international film festivals. The film is part of the permanent collection of MoMA New York, and it’s featured in What Is Contemporary Art? MoMA’s online course about contemporary art from 1980 to the present. Her work has also featured in major art galleries, such as Tate Modern London, MoMA New York, M HKA Antwerp, Museum of Modern Art + MSUM Ljubljana, etc. Popivoda received the prestigious Berlin Art Prize for the visual arts by Akademie der Künste Berlin and Edith-Russ-Haus Award for Emerging Media Artist.