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...
Written by: Ljiljana Maletin Vojvodić // What is a healthy emotional relationship, and does the content of this phrase depend on whether we live in Serbia or, for example, in Finland? Can we love multiple people simultaneously without committing adultery, and have several romantic partners without showing jealousy? These are precisely the questions problematized by...
Written by: Ljiljana Maletin Vojvodić // „Evil Does Not Exist“, an ecological family drama by Japanese director Ryu Hamaguchi, about the resistance that a local community offers to corporate „glamping“ tourism, which has been awarded at the London Film Festival and the Venice Film Festival, officially opened the 19th Free Zone (Slobodna zona) with screenings...
Art Box portal // At the Otok Gallery, an independent cultural center, Art Workshop Lazareti (Art radionica Lazareti) in Dubrovnik (ARL), from October 12th to October 31st, 2023, presents the art project ‘Decisive’ by Nina Đurđević (curated by Iva Prosoli), in which the artist examines the theme of suicide. This is a topic that needs...