Iva Radivojević returns to the theatre to present her latest film When the Phone Rang alongside a carte blanche selection that explores her key theme of “dislocated cinema,” showcasing the work of filmmakers such as Atom Egoyan, Gelare Khoshgozaran, Basma Al Sharif, Xiaolu Wang, Raúl Ruiz, and Miryam Charles, who, like Radivojević, possess a cinematic language that moves seductively within the realm of dreams.
“In putting together this series, I was thinking alongside the exiled Yugoslavian writer Dubravka Ugrešić who wrote that the state of exile resembles the structure of dreams, as the exile traverses from one reality to another, accumulating identities and languages. This is a space that is elastic, free, fragmented, looped, interrupted, distorted, polyglot; that points to things that are untranslatable to others. Opening the door to writer and philosopher Édouard Glissant’s notion of the ‘common-place,’ this series carves out a space where the dreamscapes of dislocation can meet.” —Iva Radivojević
