Edition 24: 1–9 August, 2025

ECSTATIC PEACE/A COUNTRY WITH FIVE STARS: SHORT FILMS BY IVA RADIVOJEVIĆ

Utuqaq

United States
2020 — 27'32" / Color

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Synopsis

Utuqaq is a sci-fi poem set in the Arctic. On its vast lunar landscape, the main protagonist is Ice. Four visitors arrive one spring to camp on the ice sheet.

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.

Director

Iva Radivojević