social choreography | Vita Performactiva

Our new film SLET 1988 will premiere in the Concorso Corti d’Autore section of the 78th Locarno Film Festival, August 6 to 16, 2025, in Locarno, Switzerland.

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It will premiere at Locarno as part of the Pardi di Domani lineup, a key section dedicated to cinematic experimentation and emerging voices.

Bodies, architecture, and ideas age differently while passing together through time.
Sonja Vukićević (74), a dancer and choreographer from Belgrade, is known for her anti-Milošević activism and her monumental solo at the final Youth Day celebration in Yugoslavia in 1988 – just before the fall of the Berlin Wall and the beginning of Yugoslav wars.

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Artistic experiment on social choreography of democracies by Ana Vujanović

I set an experimental artistic process based on the premise of working together, in a group, on the issue of the democracy as a real-existing organization of social situation. The experiment takes as its point of departure the cinematic score by experimental filmmaker Heinz Emigholz for his movie Schenec-Tady I (1973).

Heinz Emingholz: score plan

Firstly, five performers interpret that score individually, creating artistic materials separated from each other and then they get together and negotiate how to create the group situation democratically, starting from the five solos.
This experiment can result in a presentation, performance or stay in a laboratory framework.
Every time the process is different, as well as its results, since the types, forms and principles of democracy which are examined and physically probed depend on the artists involved and their social contexts and concerns.
For that reason I’m especially interested in the contexts with fragile democracy, where we can see it weak and under the question.

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