Ivana Mladenovic, Serbian-Romanian director, will be talking about author’s development through three feature films (Turn Off The Lights; Soldiers. Story from Ferentari; Ivana The Terrible), playing with documentary approach in feature films, and above all, about the re-enactment in first person, approach that she adopted in film Ivana The Terrible, which is a part of her doctoral thesis she is currently working on.
Ivana Mladenovic is a director of fiction short films and documentaries, which were presented in festivals worldwide. Her fiction feature debut Soldiers. Story from Ferentari premiered in Toronto IFF in 2017 and San Sebastian IFF Competition (Special Mention Sebastiano Award) and was awarded at many other festivals. The film was also selected for Tromso IFF, Istanbul IFF, Hamburg IFF etc. She filmed the second feature in her home town in Serbia with her family and friends. The film is called Ivana The Terrible and was invited to the Locarno festival in August 2019, where it had its world premiere in the Cinaesti del Presente section and won the Cineplus + jury award. Locarno was followed by festivals such as: Sarajevo Film Festival, Busan IFF, Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Minsk IFF October, Seville European Film Festival, Zagreb Film Festival and many more. It won the award for the best film in Zagreb, and also, in Belgrade, the award for the best film in the Fest Fokus selection, at this year’s 48th Fest. Also, she received The Heart of Sarajevo for Best Documentary for Turn Off the Lights, which premiered at Tribeca IFF 2012.
AUTOFICTION AND RIENECTMENT IN THE FIRST PERSON
Live Zoom webinar
Time: Friday, 6. novembar, 18h
Belgrade, Bratislava, Ljubljana
OPEN FOR PUBLIC
The lecture will cover the main motives from the film The Little Girl, such as gender abnormality, silence, the process of legal recognition of gender and the struggle for self-determination. Definitions of the terms transgender and cis related will be proposed, the distinction between gender identity and gender expression will be emphasized, and the heterogeneity of power that establishes and maintains a modern gender regime (capitalist patriarchy) with a focus on the oppression of trans people.
The situation with the process of legal recognition of gender in the Balkans will be mentioned. The thesis is that the villain in the film is not only a school as a disciplinary institution, but also a doctor who “provides support” to the girl and apparently resolves the situation.The question that arises is to what extent this film, that is, the artistic representation of a trans experience, contributes to the perception of gender and the consolidation of the bad attitude towards trans people.”
Lina Gonan graduated in philosophy and art history at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb. She is currently employed at the Multimedia Institute and is a lecturer at the Center for Women’s Studies. She is involved in activism in the field of women’s and LGBTIQ+ rights. She also writes lectures on feminism, gender theory, queer Marxism, etc. She is a member of the feminist reading club Fematik and the editorial team of the Balkan anarchist magazine Antipolitika.
LECTURE ON THE POSSIBILITIES OF SELF-DETERMINATION OUTSIDE THE GENDER REGIME AND THE MODALITIES OF POWER BY WHICH IT IS ESTABLISHED
Live Zoom webinar
Time: Monday, 11. novembar, 18h
Belgrade, Bratislava, Ljubljana
OPEN FOR PUBLIC