Since 2019 she is a full-time director of documentaries and fictional works.

Filmography (a selection):

Marta Popivoda (1982, Yugoslavia) is a filmmaker, artist, and researcher living and working between Berlin and Belgrade. The main concerns in her work are the tensions between memory, history, and ideology, as well as the relations between collective and individual bodies. Popivoda approaches them from a feminist and queer perspective. In her recent work, she uses landscape dramaturgy, feminist storytelling, and radical slowness principles to produce verbal-images and scenes of (antifascist) memory.

Her first feature documentary, Yugoslavia, How Ideology Moved Our Collective Body, premiered at the 63rd Berlinale and was later screened at many international film festivals. The film is part of the film collection of MoMA New York and is featured in What Is Contemporary Art?, MoMA’s online course about contemporary art from 1980 to the present. Her second feature documentary, Landscapes of Resistance, premiered in the Tiger Competition of the 50th International Film Festival Rotterdam, was presented at more than 50 film festivals worldwide, and has won more than ten awards (Jeonju IFF – Best Picture Award; Cinema du Réel – Library Award; Thessaloniki Documentary Festival – Golden Alexander award; Sarajevo Film Festival – Heart of Sarajevo for Best Documentary; Sevilla European Film Festival – Best Director of a First or Second European Feature Film, etc.).

Popivoda’s work has been featured in major art galleries, such as Tate Modern London, MoMA New York, MAXXI Rome, M HKA Antwerp, Museum of Modern Art + MSUM Ljubljana, etc. She received the prestigious Berlin Art Prize for the visual arts by Akademie der Künste Berlin and Edith-Russ-Haus Award for Emerging Media Artists.

This year, her work was presented at the 12th Berlin Biennale, Manifesta 14 Biennal, and 59. Belgrade Biennale. She regularly teaches film at SNDO, the University of Arts in Amsterdam, and the Oslo National Academy of the Arts. Popivoda cherishes collective practice in artmaking and research, and she was part of the Walking Theory collective for many years. Today, she often collaborates with theorist and dramaturge Ana Vujanović in the production of films, video installations, and performances.

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> Das Referat bei ZDOK.23 | Between Memory, History and Ideology

Jyoti Mistry works with film as both a research form and as a mode of artistic practice. She has made critically acclaimed films in multiple genres and her installation work draws from cinematic traditions but is often re-contextualized for non-linear experiences in museums and galleries. Since 2018, she is Professor in Film at HDK-Valand Academy, University of Gothenburg in Sweden; her previous position was at University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa with teaching engagements at New York University; University of Vienna; Arcada University of Applied Science Polytechnic in Helsinki, Nafti in Accra and Alle Arts School at University of Addis Ababa. Currently she is editor in chief of PARSE (Platform of Artistic Research in Sweden).

Select works include:

2020  Cause of Death
2017  When I grow up I want to be a black man
2014  Impunity
2011  09: 21:25
2010  Le Boeuf Sur Le Toit
2006  I mike what I like
2004  We remember differently

Recent publications:

• International Journal of Film and Media Arts: “Mapping Artistic Research in Film” (2020)
• “Transversal Entanglements” (2022)
• onCurating: Decolonial Propositions (2021)
• Film Education Journal: “Decolonising Film Education” (2022)

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> Das Referat bei ZDOK.23 | Fabulating Documentary

by Jerry Rothwell, Nainita Desai & Nick Ryan