A LINE IS NOT A LINE

video-poem / EN / 2021 / 00:05:30 / link on demand via ︎

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A LINE IS NOT A LINE is not a line, but a false-romantic video-poem that is probably — just like any other line — not aligned with your expectations.

Looking at the current sociopolitical context on the global scale, we might wonder where exactly do we stand with extreme ideologies, values, rights, opinions, and other similar big words.

Starting from a cheesy love letter addressed to an individual, this visual essay plays with the word "line" mainly by using fragments of the first Non-Aligned Movement conference in Belgrade in 1961. Melting these images with complementary aesthetics found in short clips from that period, many cognitive disturbances occur, despite joyful tones. Is it even possible, not to be aligned?

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Screenings / Awards

2025

• WorkPartyVideo special screening, Berlin
• Emerging Eye Network's first screening "All That Glitters" —  Regenbogen Kino, Berlin

2023

• Cine Club Zagreb: discursive programme & discussion with Petra Belc / Zagreb, Croatia
• Cine Club Split: discursive programme "U Kvadrat" / Split, Croatia

2022
Cine Club Zagreb: screening by Akademski Filmski Centar Beograd / Zagreb, Croatia

2021
Main Award "Significant Achievements" — 39th Alternative Film/Video Festival / Belgrade, Serbia

Year
2021

Awards & Screenings
International Expanded & New Media Triennal (Belgrade, 2022)
International New Media Art Festival Videomedeja (Novi Sad, 2022)
The One Minutes Foundation Series / Het Nieuwe Instituut; edition curated by ikkibawiKrrr, screened at Hortus in Nijmegen (NL, 2023)

Concept
Inspired by various topics related to Nature & Technology, this 1-min video-poem brings another approach to the simulation theory: what if we are all parts of a cosmic video-game? Is there any way to prove the contrary? Is there even a rational method to differentiate real from fake, and who can claim if fake is, indeed, fake?
Meanwhile, what we understand as Nature melts in front of our eyes by loosing its own definition — a definition set by humans. What if the object that we, humans, tend to call "Nature", is not at all the Nature as we understand it?
Finally, is there any rescue plan in case Nature continues to react with ecological changes towards our anthropocentric disrespect?

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Year
2022

Awards & Screenings
40th Alternative Film/Video Festival (Belgrade, 2022)
26th Rencontres Internationales Travers Vidéo (Toulouse, 2023)
70th Martovski Documentary & Short Film Festival (Belgrade, 2023)
25th VideoEx International Experimental Film & Video Festival (Zürich, 2023)
Special Mention at the 9th FeKK Ljubljana Short Film Festival, Balkan Competition Program (Ljubljana, 2023)
36th Helsinki International Film Festival Love & Anarchy (Helsinki, 2023)
Bogdanka Poznanović Prize at the 27th International New Media Art Festival Videomedeja (Novi Sad, 2023)
36th Les Instants Vidéo Numériques et Poétiques (Marseille, 2023)
27th VideoBardo International Videopoetry Festival (Buenos Aires, 2023)

Synopsis
Progression of 122 words through their sound and meaning, pared with 60 found footage clips from 1950s TV-commercials. Each of the inserts appears twice as a pattern of déjà-vu cognitive associations, evoking a multitude of emotions from banal dailiness, flashbacks, or behaviors, slowly leading us from one particular feeling to its opposite.

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Models
Gerda, Ivana, Cléo

Year
2012

Concept
First video-project born after discovering found-footage, while thinking about mysterious thoughts that each woman keeps somewhere deep inside her mind. Being objectified and minimized to her physical appearance or behaviour,
a woman has the power to decide what, how and why she acts like she does.
The main idea of this visual journey was to explore the feminine psychological labyrinth of souvenirs, concerns, emotions, mental escapes, pleasures, ideas… Something like a diving introspection that hides like a fish in the sea.

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