Katarina Zdjelar [KK]
The film "Gaze is a bridge" is inspired by Nasta Rojc and her painting ‘Self-Portrait with a Rifle’ (1912), as well as by the work and personal story of photographer and video artist Ana Opalić. Their biographies, determined by the right to choose freedom and love, taking place in two different periods almost a century apart, intertwine with each other.
The gaze in Katarina Zdjelar’s film is a gaze of connecting autobiographies, of
understanding, but also a gaze that challenges us to reach out and cross the bridge
between the known and the unknown, between the present and the past, to
build a bridge of connection between us and them, me and you. To recognize
ourselves in our fragility, alienation, vulnerability, in the struggle for personal positions
and places that belong to us all.
Bio
Katarina Zdjelar grew up in Belgrade and is currently based in Rotterdam. Working mainly in the medium of video, her work explores the way one body encounters another as a site of resistance and possibility, pointing to the fragile agency of collective action in the present. Voice, music, sound and language have been the core interests throughout her practice.
Katarina represented Serbia at the 53rd Venice Biennale and has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions internationally, and has also shown her work at various international film festivals.
Katarine is also an educator and worked in many academic and post-academic institutes; currently she holds a position of core tutor at Piet Zwart Institute (MA Fine Art), WdKA Rotterdam and is part of the core team of the Master’s programme at the Netherlands Film Academy.
