Strawberry Jam

Our group consists of Petar Mitric, scriptwriter/producer and PhD fellow at the Film Studies Department of the University of Copenhagen, and Belgrade-based visual artist Bojan Radojcic.

It is Petar’s film script “Strawberry Jam” that put us together. The main character in the script is visual artist whose newest artwork is a symbolic nexus in the film’s story. Bojan Radojcic’s role in the project is to create that artwork that should appear in the film.

The main story of the script takes place in 1992, but it is told from the present moment. The main protagonist is a Copenhagen-based visual artist who exhibits his artwork inspired by his teenage years that he spent on the border between Bosnia and Serbia during the Yugoslav war (1992-1995). The main character is settled-down in Copenhagen now. Twenty-two years ago, he was a refugee. But, he is still in the state of a constant flux. He managed to escape one place, but he will never belong somewhere else again. The solitude with which he left his home country is the solitude that will follow him for the rest of his life.

The Saari Residence provided us with a possibility to spend some days together, since we live in two different countries, in order to be able to come up with the final idea for the artwork to be used in the film. By the end of the residency period we managed to agree on how the artwork will look like and we even started making it.

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