Films by Marko Mijatovic

Germany, Russia, Austria 2019, 26 min
by Marko Mijatovic

North of the Arctic Circle in the port city of Murmansk, Yana has just finished school. At the same time, former military personal are building a dacha settlement near to Yana's hometown in the tundra. While Yana wants to leave the city and move out into the world, the dacha settlers feel the need to create a safe haven. Although these two narratives appear divergent, they have something in common: both Yana and the settlers are following their dreams and must overcome the obstacles in their paths. Both are searching for an autonomous living space and see an economically viable habitat for themselves.

2017, 32 min
by Marko Mijatovic, Luka Papic

“The Prostitute”, “The Addict”, “Gay Man”, “The Bitch” are the titles of 75-year-old recreational poet Slobodan Stevanović’s most popular poems. And popularity – in the Serbian provinces just like everywhere else – is measured by click figures. Slobodan and his son Bojan send his works into the world via YouTube. Poetry conquers new spaces, while the tube TV set in the old space next door is flickering and the “cevapcici “are frying. (DOK Leipzig, Lukas Stern) Serbia is a transitional country on the “spiritual” edge of Europe.Somewhere on the outskirts of Serbia lives Slobodan, a hypersensitive, hyperproductive 75 year old poet.Reality in Serbia is ephemeral, everything is constantly changing. In Slobodans surroundings history and present intertwine, so as local folklore legends with horrors and curiosities of a transitional society and for him the only way to cope with it is to write. Althou he has written over 10000 poems, outside his hometown, he still remains unknown. Luckily his son Bojan has found a perfect output for his fathers poetry - Youtube. Webcam for them is a magical portal, a tool that penetrates the barrier of their surroundings, and puts his poems directly in front of those who want to hear them.