This story centers around a phone call that was received one Friday in the spring of 1992. The main protagonist is an eleven-year-old girl. Being the only person at home, she is the one to answer the phone. The call arrives from another state delivering news of a death. It is this call that seemingly disintegrates the country and the girl’s entire reality. The war that will ravage the country has already started but the war is not the center of this story, only its backdrop. This call, which brought news of her grandfather’s death, remains as the most vivid memory in the girl’s mind decades later, as a constant presence.

The film thus proceeds as a creative investigation into remembrance and the creation of personal and collective myths. The phone call as a recurring event in the story brings together a series of recollections that are assembled to build a larger story. Each memory is called forth by a phone call, and thus the film is divided into eleven events, eleven phone calls. Each event begins with a phone ringing and ends with the packing of suitcases and departure.

Please join us for a screening followed by a discussion with the Director.

Iva Radivojevic (Director, Producer, Writer, and Editor) was born in Belgrade and spent her early years in Yugoslavia, Cyprus, and eventually NYC. She is an artist and filmmaker who currently divides her time between Athens and Lesbos. Iva’s films have screened at the New York Film Festival, New Directors/New Films, Rotterdam IFF, CPH:DOX, Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, DocLisboa, Museum of Modern Art (NYC), Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art and were commissioned by ARTE La Lucarne and Field of Vision. She is the recipient of the Sundance Art of Non-Fiction Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, Jerome Fellowship, NYFA Fellowship, Princess Grace Special Project Award, and Film Fellowship. Avenue of The Living, her new art book was recently published by Big Black Mountain Press. She’s a PhD candidate at Villa Arson in Nice.

Sponsored by the Film Department, Political Science Department, and History Department.

This event is open to the public.