Balkan Blues
Curated by Rada Sesic Balkan countries have a great tradition of short films. In the past, directors made visually superb, poetic sketches of life with very few words. The present generation of film makers seems to prefer reflecting on life by using the aesthetics of ugliness, almost as if there is a revival of the style that dominated Yugoslav cinema in the 1960s. This was characterized by dark, often monochromatic visuals expressing the rawness and ugliness of life – the absurdity and tremendous heaviness of doomed destinies. The themes of the shorts in the BALKAN BLUES programme give insight into how people deal with specific problems (return of refugees, feelings of guilt), with the psychological misery of a life poisoned by political propaganda or with their fear of the repressed instincts to destroy and kill.
In this combined programme
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North Went Mad
Family, friends and neighbours try to get rid of the corpse of a girl who died suddenly.
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