Speak So I Can See You
Serbia, Croatia, Qatar | 73' | 2019 | documentary
Directed by Marija Stojnić
Serbian OV with English subtitles
“Speak so I Can See You” takes us to a seemingly different era, by exploring the world of Radio Belgrade. One of Europe’s oldest radio stations and a true institution of the city, the station still broadcasts original programming and helps keep history, culture and critical thought, as well as ever- relevant questions about ourselves
and the world, from slipping out of memory and mind.
Set at the intersection of an observational documentary and a unique sensory experience, the film conjures everyday scenes at the station and immersive interludes exploring the relationship between sound and the space it inhabits. Through a synesthetic blend of sounds, words, notes, echoes and light, we are taken into a unique cinematic soundscape that doubles as a love letter to radiophonic art and its disarming insight into what makes us remember, understand, think, discover, and feel.
Artists
Marija Stojnić is a director whose films synthesize documentary, artistic research, and other art forms in exploring the human condition.
The experimentation with sound that characterizes her work is an interest derived from her background in ethnomusicology as a performer/vocalist. Together with Aleksandra Denda, she is a co-founder of Vocal Group ROSA.
Documentary film "Speak so I can see you", her feature-length directorial debut, supported by Eurimages and Doha FIlm Institute, received multiple awards and had its World premiere at IDFA’s 2019 First Appearance Competition, its US premiere at MoMA's DocFortnight 2020, and was recently featured in The Guardian. Marija is currently in production of her new short film “Total Eclipse”, an animated documentary about the unusual reception of the total solar eclipse of 1999 in Yugoslavia.
She is a graduate of The New School in New York and the Academy of Arts in Belgrade, a member of the Documentary Association of Serbia, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in Film/Video for 2015, Instituto Sacatar Film/Video fellow 2017, IDFA Academy 2017, IDFA SummerSchool 2018, and Berlinale Talents 2022 alumna.
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