Aurora's Dream

Marija, Marija always unfortunate. Never catch her glance, she'll bring you misery!

The daily routine of 87-year old Vida changes when a neighbor foretells her future, announcing the upcoming arrival of an extraordinary guest. In the same scattered mountain village in the Balkans, young Slavoljub is experiencing an overwhelmingly strong attraction to his peer Vladana.

"The Legend of the Turtle Dove" is a biographical film, with elements of different genres - musical, comedy, western, melodrama - dedicated to the work of one of the most important Serbian artists - composer Stevan Hristic.

An experimental project in hybrid form that combines the elements of dramatic feature film and video game, in which the player - viewer, actually - participates and influences the narrative with his own choice of plot.

Ligia Lewis filmed A Plot, A scandal in the historic quarters of Rimini, Italy, a site the artist sees as upholding “Eurocentric ideals of (white) Man’s dominion over the land.” One recurring aspect of the landscape, the towering cypress trees in ordered rows, stands as an example. The film opens with the sonic resonance of the church bell portrayed later as a towering monument, pointing to Christian ideals that served as both a precursor to the Enlightenment and bedfellow in maintaining this hierarchical order. Weaving together multiple historical epics with political and mythical narratives, the work uses ideas of spectacle and scandal to address the continued dispossession of “Europe’s Others,” as Lewis describes them. [Overview courtesy of The Whitney Museum]