BALKAN BAROQUE
France-Netherland

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16/10 12:15 MASP 1- GRANDE AUDITÓRIO
18/10 17:55 CINEARTE
23/10 12:00 CINESESC
28/10 14:15 ESPAÇO UNIBANCO 1



    Biography that is a blend of realism and the imaginary to retell the life of a Yugoslav performer, Marina Abramovic. With rituals, based on the use of her own body, she explores the bounds of her physical and psychological resistance.

     This is not, however, mere reproduction of Abramovic's presentations, but rather of building a new reality: the performances are translated into cinema images and built into the fictional context of the film.

     Marina Abramovic plays herself, and assumes different forms that repeatedly distort or obscure her real identity. Memories blend with fantasy, dreams, artistic rituals, and day-to-day life - as if she were trying to look both ways at the same time, like a head with two faces, one turned towards the past and the other towards the future. This is an endeavor to discover herself and also to lend form to the creative process, with a narrative that frees itself from chronology and follows along with only image and sound.

   
 
Director : Pierre Coulibeuf
Screenplay : Marina Abramovic, Pierre Coulibeuf
Cinematographer : Dominique Le Rigoleur
Edition : Thierry Rouden
Cast : Marina Abramovic
Producer : Chantal Delanoë
Production : Regards Production Wega-Film (Austria), Scarabee Film Productions ( Holland), Institut National de I'Audiovisuel (France)
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  Col., 61min., 1998
 

Born in 1945, in Elbeuf, France. He completed a Doctorate degree in the French Language and Literature at the University of Paris. In 1987, he began to direct films on artists. Klossowski, Peintre-Exorciste (1988) was the first of these, followed by C'est de l'Art (1995). L'Homme Noir (1995) and Insomnie (1995). Balkan Baroque is his sixth feature.