28 Sep Tomorrow on the „COUNTERPUBLICS” seminar – a lecture by Olga Dimitrijevic
The program of the ‘COUNTERPUBLICS: Queer Activism, Nationalism and Public Space’ seminar continues tomorrow with the lecture entitled “Queer film and images of the nation – the representation of homosexuality in the post-Yugoslavian cinema since the 2000’s” by Olga Dimitrijevic. The lecture will start at 11:00 h.
The lecture will include the most significant films with queer motives developed in the Serbo-croatian language region since the 2000’s. With the analysis of films such as Fine Dead Girls, Milos Brankovich, The Beautiful Blue Danube and the inevitable Parade, the lecture will be focused on how the film creators see the queer motives and characters inside the narrative of the nation and society. Knowing that films are not immune to the all-present prejudices, we will analyze the ways in which the theses of homosexuality appear throughout the film narratives as something alien by the perpetuation of the traditional representations of gay characters, and, especially, how the queer motives are applied in “the critique of the society” that the largest number of these authors outline.
Olga Dimitrijevic is a dramaturgy graduate at Belgrade’s Faculty of dramatic arts. She has finished an alternative course in the field of Women studies at the Center for women studies in Belgrade. She has written theater critiques for several magazines. She defended her thesis “The bodies of female folk singers on the Serbian scene: the construction of the national identities since the 2000’s” at the department of gender studies on the Central European University. She has directed several theater plays and she is the screenwriter of script of the documentary film Awakening. Since 2010 she is a member of the editorial of the magazine QT and the Center for queer studies, and has also lectured on film panel discussions in the Youth Center in Belgrade. She has received several significant awards in the field of dramatic arts.
You can follow the lectures online on http://www.radiomof.mk/koalicija/ and vozivo.mk. The online streaming is supported by MOF radio.