Events

“Occupied Culture” is a book that thematically deviates from established historiographical books that analyse military operations, suffering and resistance. Its authors look at the Second World War in occupied Serbia from a completely different angle. The horizon of this publication is represented by culture in its extremely important segment – the protection of cultural assets and the work of museums. The starting point of the research is the verification of stereotypes created in post-war Yugoslavia that only after the Second World War in a country whose entire social life is dictated by the Communist Party.

Antique Čačak was located on the border of two Roman provinces, and the archaeological discoveries of its parts were placed in the center of today's city, which allowed the fragments of an ancient time to flow into the present. Hence, the exhibition was conceived through multiple temporal and visual planes, combining photographic frames, poetic expression, paintings, drawings and immediate archaeological fragments. Discover how the layers of the ancient horizon are connected to modern man by the same territory, feelings and substance.

In a small shop at the bus station in Kraljevo, which was almost completely hidden behind the sign “I Repair Memories”, the great man, master and Mr. Joviša Gudžulić (1937-2023) spent more than half a century. In front of this strange, slightly beautiful and terribly ugly world, Joviša swears in this documentary that she will fight honorably, not looking for any victory in the outcome of her personal life struggle.