You must register by 5pm on October 15, 2024 in order to attend this event.

Please join the Njegoš Endowment for Serbian Language and Culture for a thought-provoking screening event that examines solidarity, migration, and ecological resistance through a series of compelling documentaries by Nika Autor, followed by a discussion between the filmmaker and Amir Husak (The New School). Moderated by Aleksandar Bošković.

This special showcase, blending a cine-eco-(po)ethic approach, will present five short films by the Slovenian director Nika Autor, engaging with crucial social and political issues. Her films offer a unique lens on socio-political activism, migration, and environmental justice, challenging viewers to reflect on the intersecting narratives of human rights and ecologies of solidarity.

Featured Documentaries:

Solidarity (Newsreel Front, 6’, SD, 2011)

Newsreel – Below the Hearts get Bigger, Above Nothing Changes (Newsreel Front, 8mm, 4′, 2021)

Newsreel 65 – We Have too Much Things in Heart… (Newsreel Front, 4K, 30′, 2022)

Newsreel 2021 – Here I Have Picture (Newsreel Front, 4K, 18′, 2022)

Newsreel 670 – Red Forests (Newsreel Front, 16mm, 16′, 2022)

Nika Autor finished her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana (BA and MA) and finished her PhD in Practice at Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She is part of the collective Newsreel Front and interested in topics such as migrations, workers’ rights, gender politics, histories of resistances, and socially engaged art practices in under/misrepresented spaces. Her practice is primarily based on experimental videos and documentary films, film essays, photography, collages, drawings and spatial video installations.  Her work has been exhibited in many and various international museums, galleries and festivals. These include: 57th Venice Biennale, MoMA, Jeu de Paume Paris, MAXXI Rome, MSUM+MG Ljubljana, MIMA, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, GARAGE Moscow, ARS Electronica, IDFA, TIFF, IFFR, JEUNJ Korea, VIENNALE, etc.

Amir Husak is a documentary media maker and Assistant Professor of Media Studies at The New School. Husak’s work explores the documentary as social practice and investigates digital media representations of history, migration and memory. He has shown his work at Cinemateca Distrital (Bogota, Colombia), Sarajevo Film Festival (Bosnia & Herzegovina), Stadtmuseum Graz (Austria), South by Southwest (US), and Sundance Film Festival (US). Husak currently serves as Artistic Director of BHFF NYC Film Festival, a showcase of cinema from Southeast Europe and its diasporas.