Slobodan Šijan

(foto M. Vesovic)
Born in Belgrade in 1946, one of the most prominent movie directors in the Balkans. Directed feature films Who’s That Singing Over There, The Marathon Family, How I Was Systematically Destroyed by an Idiot and Strangler vs. Strangler, among others. In addition to his work as a scriptwriter, teacher, movie critic and writer, he is also renowned as a video and multimedia artist and painter. He has written or edited a number of books on visual arts and cinema (John Ford, Jean-Marie Straub, Hitchcock’s Vertigo, his monography on his own intermedia art practices and experiences Filmski letak 1976-1979 (2009), Razgovori oko filma (2010) – conversations about his exhibitions.