TRAILER
POSTER

STORY

“Novi Sad, Serbia. The portrait of an urban society, the Balkans, 21st Century. The people in the center – the people at the periphery. Post-war spirit, but only because we know what happened in Ex-Yugoslavia. The Heart of It? The work which has to be done, day after day. The fact that you have to stoop down to collect a potato, every sack of cabbages has to be tied by hand. Because it is the daily work of the hands which transcends the reality of the present and shows life in itself in its hypnotic stream between the past and the future.”

CREDITS

Producer, Director, Editor: Michal Kosakowski
Writer: Goran Mimica
Music: Paolo Marzocchi
Electronic sounds: Paolo Marzocchi, Stefano Sasso
Cinematography: Michal Kosakowski, Evelyn Eberhardt
Edited: Michal Kosakowski
Sound: Evelyn Eberhardt

Serbian with english subtitles

LINKS

Goran Mimica
Paolo Marzocchi
Evelyn Eberhardt

JUST LIKE THE MOVIES
November 28, 2009 / 8 pm - University of Bayreuth

LOCATION

University Campus, Bayreuth
GW 1 (Geisteswissenschaften 1)
Universitätsstr. 30
95440 Bayreuth, Germany

9/11 AS CATALYST - AMERICAN AND BRITISH CULTURAL RESPONSES

Michal Kosakowski is showing his award-winning film JUST LIKE THE MOVIES on occasion of the International Conference organized by the University of Bayreuth and the University of Erfurt and sponsored by the Hans-Böckler-Stiftung and the Bavarian American Academy.

The conference will investigate North American and British cultural responses to the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, and to the social, political and cultural effects that have developed in their wake – including further attacks such as the ones in Madrid (2004), London (2005), and Mumbay (2008). While official political discourse was dominated by the notion of 9/11 as a historical rupture and by the conceptualization of a “War on Terror” that had to be fought with military force abroad and by curbing civil liberties at home, a close look at a wider spectrum of texts and discourses reveals that responses to the attacks and to the impact of terrorism in general have been much more diverse and complex. Whether the events of 9/11 mark a historical caesura or not – a contested claim that will be among the key issues at stake at the conference –, they certainly had a catalytic effect on the cultural production in various media: in literature, in the theater, in the news media, in film and television, in the realms of music and dance. This cultural production shows the first contours of a cultural memory that has symbolically negotiated experiences of shock, trauma, and commemoration as well as the various political, social and economic developments in our post-9/11 world. The papers presented will address first wave responses to the attacks as well as second wave responses of the years following; they will focus on their participation in the shaping of discourses of terror (mindedness), fear, violence, mourning, religion, nationalism, civil liberties, migration and globalization; they will explore how a diversity of ethnic, racial, and gendered perspectives have explored the diffusion of public and private sphere and how they have revisited (and revised) national narratives of identity formation; and they will discuss the aesthetic repercussions 9/11 and the “War on Terror” have had on the aesthetic and conceptual notions of postmodernism.

LINKS

9/11 as Catalyst - American and British Cultural Responses

SCREENING

September 14, 2009 / 21 pm - Spazio XYZ

LOCATION

Spazio XYZ
Via Inferiore 31
Treviso, Italy

CIMENA 2.0

We start the next film season with a special upgrade of our cinema night.
CIMENA 2.0 brings you a fresh selection of independent films and live interviews with its creators.

Monday, September 14 at 21.00 we open the season with the award winning film JUST LIKE THE MOVIES by Michal Kosakowski.

Popcorn, beer and a live interview with the film’s director.

Curated by Ries Straver

LINKS

Spazio XYZ
Ries Straver

SCREENING

June 25, 2009 / 8 pm - Lothringer 13

LOCATION

Städtische Kunsthalle München
Lothringer 13
Lothringerstr. 13
81667 Munich / Germany

On the occasion of Goran Mimica’s residency in the Villa Waldberta, two movies, “KANNIBALISMUS” and “THE HEART OF IT”, by Michal Kosakowski will be shown in the Gallery for Contemporary Art of the City of Munich.

“For centuries Balkanibal has sat on his throne, in his Peninsula, at the crossroads between East and West, proud, suspicious and stubborn. For centuries he has mutilated himself and demanded respect for these bloody rituals from travelers.
The last time I saw him, his body was a heap of riven flesh and infected wounds. He was sat on the throne, in front of the mirror. His face was covered in deep scars, and, instead of a nose, there was a dark, putrid hole gape. With the stump of one hand he supported the Polaroid camera, and in the palm of the other, fingerless, hand, he held his own balls.” Goran Mimica

LINKS

Goran Mimica
Städtische Kunsthalle München Lothringer 13

OPENING

May 15th, 2009, 5.30pm

LOCATION

Centre Pompidou
Large cinema hall of the Centre Pompidou

Place Georges Pompidou
75004 Paris

Michal Kosakowski’s JUST LIKE THE MOVIES is presented at the large cinema hall of the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

LINKS

Centre Pompidou - Cinema
Programm “Artention” of North Rhine-Westphalia
Leaflet by the Centre Pompidou (pdf)

SCREENING

May 15, 2009 / 5.30 pm - Cinéma 1

LOCATION

Centre Pompidou
Large cinema hall of the Centre Pompidou

Place Georges Pompidou
75004 Paris

The award-winning film “Just Like the Movies” will be shown in the large cinema hall of the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

LINKS

Centre Pompidou - Cinema
Programm “Artention” of North Rhine-Westphalia
Leaflet by the Centre Pompidou (pdf)

OPENING

April 8th, 2009, 8pm

LOCATION

Edificio Sabatini. Salón de Actos
Calle Santa Isabel, 52. Madrid

Michal Kosakowski’s JUST LIKE THE MOVIES is presented at the Auditorium of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid.

LINKS

Leaflet by the Museo Reina Sofia (pdf)
Museo Nacional Centro De Arte Reina Sofia

SCREENING

8 April 2009 / 8pm - Programa 6: Joven cine experimental alemán

LOCATION

Edificio Sabatini. Salón de Actos
Calle Santa Isabel, 52. Madrid
Entrada: gratuita. Aforo: 140 localidades

The award-winning film “Just Like the Movies” will be shown in the Auditorium of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid.

LINKS

Leaflet by the Museo Reina Sofia (pdf)
Museo Nacional Centro De Arte Reina Sofia

OPENING

April 3rd 2009, 6pm
Exhibition: April 4th - May 17th, 2009

LOCATION

Historisches Museum, Minoritenkirche / Dachauplatz 2-4 / Regensburg, Germany
Städtische Galerie “Leerer Beutel” / Bertoldstr. 9 / Regensburg, Germany

“Der katholische Faktor”

An exhibition on contemporary art from Poland and Germany, curated by Maciek Czapski and Christian Schnurer.
Michal Kosakowski is showing his early filmwork “IS GOD MODERN?” from 1997 in the beautiful space of the Minoritenkirche (church) in Regensburg.

LINKS

Der katholische Faktor - Exhibition

OPENING

3 April 2009 / 6pm

LOCATION

Historisches Museum, Minoritenkirche / Dachauplatz 2-4 / Regensburg
Städtische Galerie “Leerer Beutel” / Bertoldstr. 9 / Regensburg

“Der katholische Faktor”

An exhibition on contemporary art from Poland and Germany, curated by Maciek Czapski and Christian Schnurer.
Michal Kosakowski is showing his early filmwork “IS GOD MODERN?” from 1997 in the beautiful space of the Minoritenkirche (church) in Regensburg.

Exhibition: 4 April - 17 May, 2009
Tuesday - Sunday: 10-16

LINKS

Der katholische Faktor - Exhibition