Miljana Niković
Miljana Niković (Belgrade/Berlin) is an architect and audiovisual researcher experimenting with words and combining multiple languages. She is currently working on her doctoral thesis and video project about filmed urban spaces and their perception through collective memories and sociopolitical transformations. Her experimental video-poems have been screened and awarded at various international film festivals and cultural events, including VideoEx in Zürich, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Alternative Film Video in Belgrade, ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival in Berlin, Fotogenia Festival in Mexico, Ljubljana Short Film Festival and others.
Works by Miljana Niković
Infimes Détails: Un Film, Deux Tailles
2022, digital video
6 minutes
Progression of 122 words through their sound and meaning, paired 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.
A Line is Not a Line
2021, digital video
6 minutes
Starting from a cheesy love letter addressed to an individual, this visual essay plays with the word “line” mainly by using fragments of the first Non-Aligned Movement conference in Belgrade in 1961. Melting these images with complementary aesthetics found in short clips from that period, many cognitive disturbances occur, despite joyful tones.
Seven Seven
2020, digital video
14 minutes
Seven Seven is a philosophical metaphor for Twenty Twenty — a year of global panic that began with a pandemic, generating a multitude of issues deeply rooted in a system that has long gone wrong. Using mostly excerpts from “Airport ’77”, a film shot to promote the US Navy, the video collage offers a trivialization of the most recent large-scale events.