Screening program series in the framework of Sanja Iveković videoretrospective Make Up – Make Down

To coincide with the exhibition an extensive five part screening program is taking place at Art-kino Croatia.

Sanja Iveković’s video retrospective for two active spaces of shared experience – the exhibition venue of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art and the cinema theatres of Art Cinema and Kinoteka – provides an exceptional parallel insight into her artistic praxes and politics of moving images. Assuming the dialectics of her video title Make Up – Make Down as the paradigmatic radical asymmetry inscribed in the video philosophy of her entire artistic work, this double positioning of the gaze provides the visual channel for her contextual methodology, in which bodily and political experience interacts with the interventionist politics of focused kino-eye in the gallery space.

The filmic in Sanja Iveković’s videos first begins in the limited space of her montage cut – in the dash for the appropriation of authority, a visual link cutting away the often abject sides of before and after, front and behind, below and above, here and elsewhere, in the intervals of intervention that stores critical layers of silenced intimate and collective memory through the video medium as an intersubjective epistemological instrument. This dash is subversively incised and re-lined by the artist’s performative body in stagings, infiltrations, and engagements between two instruments, the camera and the screen, memorializing a revolutionarily new medium, a personal and social image of the present in a reverse mirror. Following the structure of montage interstices, the strategies of contestation in the interspaces of bodies mirrored between gaze and power, frozen in a representation that does not look back, as well as personal and public limits of the cuts structured by exclusions, we activate the entire bodyscape of Iveković’s video images, conceptualized for the collage and montage cuttings over a period of almost five decades from multiple perspective of visionary and political moving images in the dispositif of cinema.

– curator of film programme Tanja Vrvilo

THE PROGRAM:

27/11 from 6 PM, followed by the conversation between Tanjea Vrvilo and Sanja Iveković
NO END
1983, directed by: Sanja Iveković, Dalibor Martinis

CHANOYU
1983, rdirected by: Sanja Iveković, Dalibor Martinis

BLACK AND WHITE
1985, directed by: Sanja Iveković, Dalibor Martinis

THE VOICE OF SILENCE
1987-1989, directed by: Sanja Iveković

THE BRIDE, THE BACHELORS. EVEN
1992, directed by: Sanja Iveković, Dalibor Martinis

THE FACE OF THE LANGUAGE
1998, directed by: Sanja Iveković

INVISIBLE WOMEN OF ERSTE CAMPUS
2016, directed by: Sanja Iveković

7/12 from 6 PM 
PERSONAL CUTS
1982, directed by: Sanja Iveković

PINES AND FIR TREES – WOMEN’S MEMORIES OF SOCIALISM
2002, directed by: Sanja Iveković

OUR BEAUTIFUL
1997, directed by: Sanja Iveković

MASO ET MISO VONT EN BATEAU
1976, directed by: Les Insoumuses: Carole Roussopoulos, Delphine Seyrig, Ioana Wieder, Nadja Ringart

23/12, from 6 PM 
INVISIBLE WOMEN OF ERSTE CAMPUS
2016, directed by: Sanja Iveković

INSTRUCTIONS NO.1
1976, directed by: Sanja Iveković

SOLIDARITY
1973, directed by: Joyce Wieland

SWEET VIOLENCE
1974, directed by: Sanja Iveković

LA LOTTA NON E FINITA
1973, directed by: Annabella Miscuglio, Rony Daopoulo / Collettivo Femminista di Cinema

18/1, 2022, from 6 PM
TRIBAL GODESS
1982, directed by: Sanja Iveković

SOIS BELLE ET TAIS-TOI!
1976, directed by: Delphine Seyrig

30/1, 2022, FROM 8 PM 

SWEET VIOLENCE
1974, directed by: Sanja Iveković

SEMIOTICS OF THE KITCHEN
1975, directed by: Martha Rosler

RECONSTRUCTIONS 1952-76
1976, directed by:Sanja Iveković

TV TIMER
1973, directed by:Sanja Iveković i Dalibor Martinis [fragment]

PERSONAL CUTS
1982, directed by: Sanja Iveković

THE FLY
1971, directed by: Yoko Ono & John Lennon

ÜBUNG MACHT DN MEISTER
1982, directed by: Sanja Iveković [a fragment of performance]

ÜBUNG MACHT DN MEISTER
2009, directed by: Sanja Iveković, performer: Sonja Pregrad [recording of a performance re-enactment]

TOUTE REVOLUTION EST UN COUP DE DES
1977, directed by: Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet

LOOKING AT…
1974, directed by:: Sanja Iveković

LIGHTHOUSE
1987-2001, directed by:: Sanja Iveković [part of an installation]

Partners: Art-kino Croatia and Film Mutations: Festival of Invisible Cinema

The program is supported by: