Write No Loneliness

Synopsis

Mladen Stilinović (1947), a renowned conceptual artist, was interested in film for its properties and structure, and for the possibility of deliberation and experimentation via the medium itself; it allowed for the dismantling of all established cinematographic codes, but also an intertwining with other artists’ interests. Thus, in his film Write No Loneliness, a sort of media self-portrait, we find a range of direct interventions on the film tape: from scratching, painting and cutting it, to a testing of the tone-negative picture. The anti-narrative approach is emphasized by altering literal and avant-garde references, poems, and via the cover of the Dada jazz avant-garde magazine (by Dragan Aleksić). These things and some other elements — hand-writing, street signs drawings, visual poetry and textual interpolation — are seen to be present in the collages he is making at the time.