MUSEUM OF THE REVOLUTION | Srđan Keča | SERBIA | 2021 | 91´
Synopsis:
“The wind got up in the night and took our plans away,” reads the proverb in the opening titles of Museum of the Revolution. The words are a reference to the 1961 plan to build a grand museum in Belgrade as a tribute to Socialist Yugoslavia. Meant to “safeguard the truth” about the Yugoslav people, the plan never got beyond the construction of the basement. The derelict building now tells a very different story from the one envisioned by the initiators 60 years ago. In the damp, pitch-dark space live the outcasts of a society reshaped by capitalism. The film focuses on a girl who earns cash on the street by cleaning car windows with her mother. The girl has a close friendship with an old woman who also lives in the basement. Against the background of a transforming city, the three women find refuge in each other.
“The wind got up in the night and took our plans away,” reads the proverb in the opening titles of Museum of the Revolution. The words are a reference to the 1961 plan to build a grand museum in Belgrade as a tribute to Socialist Yugoslavia. Meant to “safeguard the truth” about the Yugoslav people, the plan never got beyond the construction of the basement. The derelict building now tells a very different story from the one envisioned by the initiators 60 years ago. In the damp, pitch-dark space live the outcasts of a society reshaped by capitalism. The film focuses on a girl who earns cash on the street by cleaning car windows with her mother. The girl has a close friendship with an old woman who also lives in the basement. Against the background of a transforming city, the three women find refuge in each other.
WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY Srđan Keča
CINEMATOGRAPHER Srđan Keča
PRODUCERS Vanja Jambrović, Srđan Keča
CO-PRODUCER Lukáš Kokeš
ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS Sara Stojković, Oliver Sertić
EDITED BY Hrvoslava Brkušić, Srđan Keča
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Radiša Cvetković
SOUND DESIGNER Jakov Munižaba
ORIGINAL MUSIC Hrvoje Nikšić
SOUND RE-RECORDING MIXER Lukáš Moudrý / Studio Beep, Prague
SOUND RECORDIST Radiša Cvetković
FOLEY ARTIST Andera Veselková
FOLEY RECORDIST Lukas Šuto
COLORISTS Robert Arnold / Lateral Films, Catalin Miloiu / Avanpost Media
GRAPHIC DESIGNER Midnight Marauder
CINEMATOGRAPHER Srđan Keča
PRODUCERS Vanja Jambrović, Srđan Keča
CO-PRODUCER Lukáš Kokeš
ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS Sara Stojković, Oliver Sertić
EDITED BY Hrvoslava Brkušić, Srđan Keča
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Radiša Cvetković
SOUND DESIGNER Jakov Munižaba
ORIGINAL MUSIC Hrvoje Nikšić
SOUND RE-RECORDING MIXER Lukáš Moudrý / Studio Beep, Prague
SOUND RECORDIST Radiša Cvetković
FOLEY ARTIST Andera Veselková
FOLEY RECORDIST Lukas Šuto
COLORISTS Robert Arnold / Lateral Films, Catalin Miloiu / Avanpost Media
GRAPHIC DESIGNER Midnight Marauder
Director’s biography:
Srđan Keča’s medium-length films A Letter To Dad (IDFA 2011, Dokufest 2011 – Best Balkan Documentary) and Mirage (Jihlava IDFF 2012 – Best Central and Eastern European Documentary) screened at leading documentary film festivals, while his video installations have been exhibited at venues like the Venice Biennale of Architecture and the Whitechapel Gallery. The found-footage feature documentary Flotel Europa, produced and edited by Keča, premiered at the 2015 Berlin Film Festival, winning the Tagesspiegel Jury Prize. His debut feature documentary as director, Museum of the Revolution, is set to premiere at IDFA 2021. Keča is a graduate of the Ateliers Varan and the UK National Film and Television School (NFTS). Since 2015 he has worked as Assistant Professor in the Department of Art & Art History at Stanford University, teaching in the MFA Documentary Film Program.
Producer’s biography:
Since 2009 Vanja Jambrović has been making films with Restart as a delegate producer. Vanja’s track record includes more than 20 films of all shapes and sizes. Her films have circled the globe, having been screened in competition at IDFA, Hot Docs, Toronto IFF, Visions du Reel, Fid Marseille, Karlovy Vary IFF, Sarajevo FF, and hundreds more. Vanja is also a Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program Grantee, for the feature documentary project “Museum of the Revolution” directed by Srđan Keča (2021). Also, film that she produced «Srbenka» (2018) directed by Nebojša Slijepčević has been preselected for EFA Awards in the best documentary category in 2018 and won Doc Allianze Award for the best documentary in 2018. With her projects Vanja was a part of several professional workshops such as: EAVE (2015), Producers on the move (Cannes 2014), Robert Bosch Coproduction Prize Germany Eastern Europe (Berlin, 2013), Berlinale Talent Campus (Berlin, 2013), Emerging Producers 2012 (Jihlava), Sarajevo Talent Campus (Sarajevo, 2012), EURODOC (France 2010) and many more. Since 2020 Vanja is teaching «Documentary production» at Academy of Drama Art in Zagreb.
Srđan Keča’s medium-length films A Letter To Dad (IDFA 2011, Dokufest 2011 – Best Balkan Documentary) and Mirage (Jihlava IDFF 2012 – Best Central and Eastern European Documentary) screened at leading documentary film festivals, while his video installations have been exhibited at venues like the Venice Biennale of Architecture and the Whitechapel Gallery. The found-footage feature documentary Flotel Europa, produced and edited by Keča, premiered at the 2015 Berlin Film Festival, winning the Tagesspiegel Jury Prize. His debut feature documentary as director, Museum of the Revolution, is set to premiere at IDFA 2021. Keča is a graduate of the Ateliers Varan and the UK National Film and Television School (NFTS). Since 2015 he has worked as Assistant Professor in the Department of Art & Art History at Stanford University, teaching in the MFA Documentary Film Program.
Producer’s biography:
Since 2009 Vanja Jambrović has been making films with Restart as a delegate producer. Vanja’s track record includes more than 20 films of all shapes and sizes. Her films have circled the globe, having been screened in competition at IDFA, Hot Docs, Toronto IFF, Visions du Reel, Fid Marseille, Karlovy Vary IFF, Sarajevo FF, and hundreds more. Vanja is also a Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program Grantee, for the feature documentary project “Museum of the Revolution” directed by Srđan Keča (2021). Also, film that she produced «Srbenka» (2018) directed by Nebojša Slijepčević has been preselected for EFA Awards in the best documentary category in 2018 and won Doc Allianze Award for the best documentary in 2018. With her projects Vanja was a part of several professional workshops such as: EAVE (2015), Producers on the move (Cannes 2014), Robert Bosch Coproduction Prize Germany Eastern Europe (Berlin, 2013), Berlinale Talent Campus (Berlin, 2013), Emerging Producers 2012 (Jihlava), Sarajevo Talent Campus (Sarajevo, 2012), EURODOC (France 2010) and many more. Since 2020 Vanja is teaching «Documentary production» at Academy of Drama Art in Zagreb.
