Barbara: The Weltschmerz Musical
video, 29 min, 2023
available on request
video, 29 min, 2023
available on request
The short autofiction film focuses on the sadness of a fragile art monster – a foreigner named Barbara. After some time, Barbara returns to Belgrade, where she plans to visit her family and find inspiration for a new project. As she spends her days in a hotel room drowning in melancholy and visions of lost futures, her relative Sale keeps trying to contact her.
Through the concept of Yugonostalgia, the work explores the problematic discourse of identity decolonization, reparative turn in art, and the overall purpose of reflecting one's privilege. However, the subject of the film itself is not so much an analysis of these phenomena as a subtle effort to point out individual motivations and internal processes that accompany them. In other words, which of us is lucky enough to become a (self-made) romantic hero worth being looked at?
Through the concept of Yugonostalgia, the work explores the problematic discourse of identity decolonization, reparative turn in art, and the overall purpose of reflecting one's privilege. However, the subject of the film itself is not so much an analysis of these phenomena as a subtle effort to point out individual motivations and internal processes that accompany them. In other words, which of us is lucky enough to become a (self-made) romantic hero worth being looked at?