Despers

Synopsis

Every summer steeI drum orchestras gather in pan yards across Brooklyn to gear up for the annual Steel Band Panorama Competition. The Despers come together for nightly practice.

Director Biography

Iva Radivojević was born in Belgrade and spent her early years in Yugoslavia and Cyprus. She is an artist and filmmaker who currently divides her time between subarctic Alaska, Brooklyn and Lesbos. Her work presents itself as a collection of fragments {observations, poetry, images, sounds, melodies, languages} which collage together to connect into a ruminating whole. The work circles around displacement and belonging, seeking to connect to the metaphysical or the magical.