PEOPLE OF FILM

 

'Very few people know what they look like. Very few know what they do and how much they work. Their names are present in the credits at the end of the film, which almost nobody reads...and without them there wouldn't be ant film.'

Maja Medić & Marina Lesić

 

Photographs of Maja Medić and Marina Lesić were made in, so to speak, an imposed context, during the film shooting, with the initial aim to document the activities of film crews. However, both authors took an autonomous stance towards the work of film directors and set designers, and created their own visual field. The imposed context, thus, became a catalyst for re-directing the glance. Although both photographers worked individually and independently, on different sets, collaborating with diverse film crew, their interest, first of all, centered on the ambiance, the actors, while they are not performing in front of the cameras, as well as directors, cameraman and all the other staff, which is outside the field of camera's vision. Also, their photographs are mainly portraits of young people, members of a generation with a specific attitude and sensibility. The documentary intention of these photographs is not aimed at registering the process of creating a film, but on capturing the relationships of its creators, while the camera is not rolling, or rather, what happens behind the scene. The peripheral events and people who are responsible for the visual identity of the film, yet remain unrepresented in it, now become the focus of the viewer's glance.

Paula Miklošević

 

Exhibition - SKC gallery, Belgrade, 2003