09 Jun MUSEUM OF REVOLUTION

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MUSEUM OF REVOLUTION

Croatia, Serbia, Czech Republic / 2021 /  91′

DIRECTED BY:  Srđan Keča
SCREENPLAY BY: Srđan Keča
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Srđan Keča
EDITED BY:  Srđan Keča, Hrvoslava Brkušić
PRODUCERS:  Srđan Keča, Vanja Jambrović
PRODUCED BY: Vanja Jambrovic for Restart, Srđan Keča for UZROK
FESTIVALS & AWARDS: IDFA 2021 – svjetska premijera / HUMAN RIGHTS FILM FESTIVAL ZAGREB 2021 / FILMSKI FESTIVAL U TRSTU 2022 /  HOT DOCS 2022 / CROSSING EUROPE 2022 / BELDOCS 2022 – najbolja kamera / SARAJEVO FILM FESTIVAL 2022 – Srce Sarajeva za najbolji dokumentarni film

 

“The wind got up in the night and took our plans away,” reads the proverb in the opening titles of the Museum of the Revolution. The words are a reference to the 1961 plan to build a grand museum in Belgrade as a tribute to Socialist Yugoslavia, which never got beyond the construction of the basement. The derelict building now tells a very different story from the one envisioned 60 years ago.

 

Srđan Keča is a graduate of Atelier Varan and the British National Film and Television School (NFTS), and now he is an assistant professor at Stanford University’s Department of Art and Art History. His Letter to Father, Mirage, and Escape have been screened at leading documentary film festivals, including IDFA, DOK Leipzig, Jihlava, and Full Frame, and his video installations have been exhibited at venues such as the Venice Architecture Biennale and the Whitechapel Gallery. Flotel Europa, which he produced and edited, premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in 2015, where it won the Tagesspiegel Jury Award.