In SLET 1988, the dancer Sonja Vukićević (74) moves through socialist-modernist spaces, her body an archive of the last mass performance in Yugoslavia. Her gestures echo past rhythms and present realities, intertwining with a 1988 teenage girl's diary to reveal the shift from socialist collectivism to rising individualism while a new national collective body is creeping in and will soon shape the future of the country.
Marta Popivoda is a filmmaker, artist, and researcher whose work explores memory, history, ideology, and the collective and individual body from feminist and queer perspectives. Shown at the Berlinale, Locarno, MoMA, Tate, and more, she is a Berlin Art Prize winner and teaches at the University of the Arts Amsterdam.
Filmography
2013 Yugoslavia, How Ideology Moved Our Collective Body
2021 Landscapes of Resistance
2025 SLET 1988