Scene from the film Pirika on Film
Scene from the film Pirika on Film
Scene from the film Pirika on Film

Pirika on Film

Direction
Year 
2013
Country
  • Serbia
Duration
54min 
Audio Tracks 
Subtitles 

A biographical video essay on Pirika, a strong-willed woman living in Serbia, made 44 years after she appeared as a child actor in the short documentary film Little Pioneers and the Golden Bear-winning feature film Early Works, both directed by Zelimir Zilnik. Growing up on the streets of Novi Sad, flirting with an accidental acting career, struggling through multiple failed relationships, even losing contact with her only daughter, this is the story of Pirika reconstructing her life through the regenerative power of cinema. During a climactic scene in which she visits Kino Arsenal in Berlin where a retrospective screening of the film Early Works is taking place, Pirika reunites with her onetime director Zilnik on stage and also her estranged daughter.

Zilnik assembles this video essay by freely mixing docu-drama with discussion-style interviews between various characters. A picture is painted of Pirika, but also of the post-socialist condition as it affects the lives of both young and old in Serbia and Germany. The final scene of the video essay takes place in front of large statues of Marx and Engels, who loom over an impromptu conversation about the checkered pasts and potential futures of those who lived under the influence of communist parties. For people like Pirika, it is a question of finding the proper angle in which to rummage through garbage bins for a means of survival.

This film is not currently online :(

But no worries. There are more just like it in our new programme.

Details

DAFilms.com is powered by Doc Alliance, a creative partnership of 7 key European documentary film festivals. Our aim is to advance the documentary genre, support its diversity and promote quality creative documentary films.

Doc Alliance Members

Join to get regular updates on our film program:

By sending the registration for the Newsletter, I consent to receiving commercial communications through electronic means and to related personal data processing required for the purposes of sending the Newsletter of Doc-Air Distribution s.r.o. I confirm having read the Principles of Personal Data Processing, understanding the text and consenting to the same, while I acknowledge the rights specified herein, including, without limitation, the right to submit objections against direct marketing techniques.

Poslat svému Junioru

Zavřít