Marta Popivoda is a filmmaker, artist, and researcher.
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.
Her work has been presented worldwide in the cinema and visual arts contexts, such as Berlinale, Locarno, IFFR, Visions du Réel, MoMA New York, Tate Modern London, MAXXI Rome, Manifesta Biennial, Berlin Biennale, and others, and featured in the Guardian, Sight & Sound, Screen, Artforum, and e-flux. She received numerous awards for her films and artwork, including the prestigious Berlin Art Prize for the Visual Arts at the Akademie der Künste Berlin.
She teaches film at the University of Arts in Amsterdam and is a member of the European Film Academy. Currently, she is a fellow of the Berlin Artistic Research Programme 2024-25.
New film!
In Slet 1988, the dancer Sonja Vukićević (74) moves through the utopian architecture of socialist modernism—her body is an archive of the last mass performance in Yugoslavia. Her gestures echo past rhythms and present realities, intertwining with a teenage girl’s diary from 1988 and exposing the shift from socialist collectivism to rising individualism while a new national collective body was creeping in, soon to shape the future of the country.
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