Art Box portal // Do you like Christmas movies? Surely, some are your favorites. But have you ever thought about the everyday lives of workers who produce Christmas decorations for the entire world? That’s exactly what the documentary film MERRY CHRISTMAS, YIWU (2020) by Mladen Kovačević is about. MERRY CHRISTMAS, YIWU is an intimate film...
Art Box portal // In the Södermalm area of Stockholm, a special place called Fotografiska thrives. It brings together photography, art, and culture, creating a source of inspiration. Fotografiska, a modern photography center, has been capturing feelings and stories since it started in 2010. It’s located in an old customs house with a unique Art...
Art Box portal // Projekat i publikacija u vezi s njim „Sopstvena soba“ Kreativno-edukativnog centra Art Box, koji je i osnivač istoimenog portala, preispituje na koji način radni prostor umetnica utiče na njihov umetnički identitet; istražuje različite lične, intimne i javne prostore – poput ateljea, umetničkih rezidencija, javnih biblioteka, kafića, parkova, ali i kuhinja, spavaćih...
Art Box portal // The Nobel Prize in Literature 2023 was awarded to Norwegian author and playwriter Jon Fosse (1959), „for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable“. Fosse is the fourth Norwegian writer to get the Nobel. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson got it in 1903, Knut Hamsun was awarded it in 1920 and Sigrid Undset...
Written by: Ljiljana Maletin Vojvodić // Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) wrote in her essay „A Room of One’s Own“ (1929) that „a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.“ The question then arises: is this assertion still truly accurate? In 2006, I received an unusual invitation from...
Art Box portal // Veronika Lišková‘s documentary „The Visitors“ (2023) immerses viewers in the unique setting of Svalbard, as anthropologist Zdenka Sokolícková and her family relocate to Longyearbyen, Norway. The film, shot over two years, delves into Sokolícková’s study on the impact of climate change on the local community, revealing unexpected social tensions and anxieties....
Written by Ljiljana Maletin Vojvodić // My recent stay in Dubrovnik took me back to the 80s, to family vacations in Kupari, during the time of the former Yugoslavia. I don’t recall the exact route we took to the sea back then; all I know is that we traveled in a Yugo. However, I still...
Art Box portal // The ironically critical film „Club Zero“, directed by Austrian filmmaker Jessica Hausner, had its world premiere at the 76th Cannes Film Festival and is currently available for viewing on the KinoKouch Free Zone (Slobodna zona) platform. This film indirectly addresses eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia. However, its focus extends...
Written by: Dragan Vojvodić // „Strange Way of Life„ („Extraña forma de vida“), a short queer western by Pedro Almodóvar (born in 1949) from 2023, had its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival and closed the 19th Free Zone Film Festival. Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal portray two middle-aged men on opposite sides of the...