“If These Walls Could Talk”
From 17 to 26 September 2021, BINA hosted a ten-day film school. As part of this year’s Future Architecture Platform program, collectively entitled “Landscapes of Care”, the BINA Summer Film School “If These Walls Could Talk”, was focused on the Press Centre building (1958). The edifice, a listed heritage building, is the seat of the Cultural Centre of Belgrade, BINA and a number of different organizations, offices, faculty, high school, cinema, restaurant, shops… The intention was to introduce participants to this building, its architecture, history, facilities and users, in order that they present their own insights & comments on the present situation, suggestions of its future potentials and ideas about caring for such a building - and all that in a short film format.
Under the mentorship of selected Fellows from the Future Architecture 2021 Call for Ideas:
Julia Udall, Alex De Little, Jon Orlek (Sonic Acts of Noticing, UK);
Ana Ulrikke Andersen (Norway);
Nina Bačun (Croatia);
Dea Widya (Indonesia);
Zuzana Révészová (Spolka Kolektiv, Slovakia)
Eminent Serbian authors in the field of documentary film: Dejan Petrović, a film director and the founder of the Interakcija International Student Film Camp, in cooperation with film director Vojin Vasović, film director and editor Jelena Maksimović and cameraman Dragan Vildović, and school coordinators Slađana Petrović Varagić and Ana Ostojić, participants in accordance with their previous experiences, received instructions and consultations regarding the possibilities and ways of using film language in presenting architecture and diverse activities that take place within architectural objects.
Participants of the FA/BINA Summer Film School were selected after the Open call that was organized during summer, July 2021: Sanja Solunac, Jelena Prljević, Teodora Pavlović, Danica Sretenović, Nikola Radosavljević, Aleksandar Koturanović, Miloš Bojović, Mischa de Vries, Jana Gligorijević and Veronika Milić.
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Sanja Solunac started doctoral studies at the University of Arts in Belgrade, majoring in Digital Art in2020;in 2011 she received master's degree at the Faculty of Philology and Arts (University of Kragujevac), Department of Applied Arts, Department of Painting;in 2010 she received bachelor's degree at the Faculty of Philology and Arts (University of Kragujevac), Department of Applied Arts, Department of Painting. Sanja is a recipient of the Scholarship from the Fund for Young Talents of the Republic of Serbia. Since 2016 she works as a designer (Spectrum Cooperative). Solo exhibitions:“password:distorted”, consists of collages, Gallery Terra, Kikinda, Serbia (2019);“Space and nothing”, consists of collages, Gallery SKC, Kragujevac, Serbia (2018); (2017) “Black Thread” consists of drawings, Gallery Tvrđava, Belgrade, Serbia (2017); „Escape and freedom – Black thread’’, consists of drawings, Gallery KC UMUS, Kragujevac, Serbia (2017); “Patterns as destiny” consists of paintings, Gallery Mali Likovni Salon, Novi Sad, Serbia (2015)and a number of group exhibitions in Serbian and region.
Jelena Prljević (1990, Užice) is a visual artist whose practice exists in the intersection between drawing, animation, and installation. Her works suggest the understanding of vulnerability, fear and the healing process as integral to the resolution of conflict, whether internal or external. A natural storyteller, she builds her narratives through layering of light, erasure, and the regenerative power of shadows. Prljević holds a BFA from the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, Serbia and an MFA in Studio Art in the Art & Art History Department, School of Fine Arts at the University of Connecticut, USA. In 2018, along with artists Nataša Prljević and Joshua Nierodzinski, she initiated an artist-run collaborative platform HEKLER. She participated in many national and international group exhibitions, collaborative projects. Prljević's animated film Sisterhood was premiered at the 13th AthensAnimFest in Athens (GR), and was officially selected by Queens World Film Festival, New York, NY (USA); ProFiFest 2018, International Film Festival in Prokuplje (SR); SEE a Paris 2018, South East European Film Festival in Paris (FR); Balkanima 2018, European Animated Film Festival in Belgrade (SR). Currently, she lives and works in her countryside home in Ljubanje, Serbia. www.jelenaprljevic.com
Teodora Pavlović was born in 1999 in Kruševac. She finished high school for the arts in Niš. She is currently finishing her painting studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade. Besides painting, she deals with new media art, such as video and installations. In her work, she especially pays attention to countless structures of human everyday life that often go unnoticed.
Danica Sretenović practices architecture in media, theoretical concepts, education, curatorial and editorial work. Her collaborative and individual projects have been exhibited in Barcelona, Chicago, Belgrade, Zagreb, and Ljubljana. She has taught at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Ljubljana, and collaborated with the Museum of Architecture and Design (MAO), Sadar+Vuga, Collective Trajna and Nonuments. She is a program director of the collective Flight of the Object.
Nikola Radosavljević (1991, Užice) graduated from the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade, Department of Applied Graphics, Graphics and Books Studio, in 2014. Nikola is the winner of several awards in the field of drawing and graphics; he participated in almost two hundred collective and organized thirty-five solo exhibitions in the country and abroad. He completed his master's studies at the same faculty, graphic department, in the field of fine graphics in 2015. He received his PhD from the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade, Department of Applied Arts and Design in 2020, on the topic of artists' books and new media graphic practices.
Aleksandar Koturanović student at the School of Computing in Belgrade, course: Multimedia Design. From an early age he was working and experimenting in the field of visual arts turned into photography, and then photography into film. He is especially interested in experimental and documentary film.
Miloš Bojović was born in Požega, Serbia. He works in the fields of: photography, film, video art and sound. Bojović holds a BA in Serbian Literature with South Slavonic Literatures at the Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade, Serbia. Miloš is a candidate for a Master of Fine Arts in Photography and Time-based Media at the Faculty of Art and Design (FUD) at the University of Usti nad Labem in Czech Republic. In 2019, he was a recipient of the Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters Scholarship that supported his one-year exchange program in Lodz, Poland. Bojović participated in several national and international group shows and collaborative projects. During his studies, in 2019, he was invited as a jury member at the international short film festival Brněnská 16 / Brno 16, in Brno, Czech Republic. Miloš is a team member of the film camp Interakcija. He uses his free time to practice free climbing. Currently, he lives and works in Serbia.
Mischa de Vries, (1997, Amsterdam), lives in Belgrade where he attended elementary and middle school. He is a studentat the Faculty of Political Science, University of Belgrade. He finished film school at Ilija M. Kolarac Endowment in Belgrade.
Jana Gligorijević is a curator and freelance photographer based in Belgrade. She has been working at the Belgrade Cultural Center since 2019. She is the author of two photographic exhibitions based on trips to Japan and research into Japanese photographic history. Jana is the co-author of the short film "Jam on a Cloud", written by Stefan Tićmi, which premiered on the portal of the Laguna publishing house at the end of 2020 and the Dev9t festival in June 2021. From time to time, she likes to make stop-motion short clips. She has an (Instagram) archive of short shots with which she records everyday life and from which she plans to make a meaningful short film one day.
Veronika Milić, (1999, Loznica) completed primary school and secondary school, currently studying at the School of Computing in Belgrade, course: Multimedia Design. Beside her regular student’s engagement, she is also a Demonstrator for the course: Music Production. Her gained experience originates from her dealing with photography and film projects at the Faculty as well as from the work on her multimedia project “Madness/My reality“ which will be soon presented to the audience.
