Miljana Niković

Minutiae: One Film, Two Cuts, 06:06 min, Color, Serbia, 2022

Progression of 122 words through their sound and meaning, pared with 60 found footage clips from 1950s TV-commercials. Each of the inserts appears twice as a pattern of déjà-vu cognitive associations, evoking a multitude of emotions from banal dailiness, flashbacks, or behaviors, slowly leading us from one particular feeling to its opposite.

Miljana Niković (1991, Belgrade) is an architect and researcher experimenting with audiovisual forms and words combining multiple languages. She currently works on her art-driven doctoral thesis and video project about filmed urban spaces and their perception through collective memories and sociopolitical transformations.