In Praise of Nothing (16+)
Serbia, Croatia, France, 2017, 78 min.
Director: Boris Mitic
Director: Boris Mitic
A satirical documentary parable about Nothing, in which Nothing, tired of being misunderstood, runs away from home and comes to address us for the first and the last time. Researched through 20.000 pages of the most eclectic bibliography ever used in a the documentary film, shot over 8 years by 62 cinematographers in 70 countries; scored by cabaret grandmasters Pascal Comelade and the Tiger Lillies; narrated – in simple childlike rhymes – by Iggy Pop.
AWARDS
Locarno, IDFA, Moscow, Shanghai, El Gouna, Seattle & 50 more.
Boris Mitic
Boris Mitic
was born in 1977 in southern Serbia. Lived on a few continents, worked for a few years for the most prestigious global media, understood a few things and dedicated the rest of his life to creative parenting, creative football and creative documentaries: a Gypsy Mad Max recycling saga, a claustrophobic tragicomedy of the absurd, a satirical documentary fairy tale, a feelgood parable about Nothing.
FILMOGRAPHY
Pretty Dyana, 2003; UNMIK Titanik, 2004; Goodbye, How Are You?, 2009; In Praise of Nothing, 2017.
Serbia, Croatia, France, 2017, 78 min.
Director: Boris Mitic
Director: Boris Mitic
A satirical documentary parable about Nothing, in which Nothing, tired of being misunderstood, runs away from home and comes to address us for the first and the last time. Researched through 20.000 pages of the most eclectic bibliography ever used in a the documentary film, shot over 8 years by 62 cinematographers in 70 countries; scored by cabaret grandmasters Pascal Comelade and the Tiger Lillies; narrated – in simple childlike rhymes – by Iggy Pop.
AWARDS
Locarno, IDFA, Moscow, Shanghai, El Gouna, Seattle & 50 more.