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Iva Radivojević was born in Belgrade and spent her early years in Yugoslavia, Cyprus and NYC. She’s an artist who currently divides her time between Athens and Lesbos.
Iva’s films have screened at the New York Film Festival, Locarno Film Festival, New Directors/New Films, Rotterdam IFF, Jeonju IFF, MOMA (NYC), Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art and others. She is the recipient of the Sundance Art of Non-Fiction Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, NYFA, Princess Grace Film Fellowship. Avenue of The Living, her new art book was recently published by Big Black Mountain Press. She’s a PhD candidate at Villa Arson in Nice.
When The Phone Rang (2024), Gaada { togetherness } (2022), Aleph (2021), Quietly I Walk The Wrong Way (2021), Utuqaq (2020), Themistokleous 88 (2018), Natto (2017), Notes From The Border (2015), Evaporating Borders (2014), Between Colors Of I (2013), Ben : In The Mind’s Eye (2012), Despers USA (2012), Thread (2011), Following Crickets (2011), Nobody Can Predict The Moment Of Revolution (2011), We The People Have Found Our Voice (2011), Nelson (2010)
In the mind of an eleven year old girl, a single phone call erases her entire life. Iva Radivojevic’s subtle drama reconstructs fragments of childhood memory to trace currents of loss and trauma that followed her family’s displacement from the former Yugoslavia. With a dreamlike structure and a wistful, unsettling atmosphere, When The Phone Rang unearths dissonant relationships between history and memory.
An essay in five parts, Evaporating Borders offers a series of vignettes, poetically guided by the filmmaker’s curious eye and personal reflections. Through the people she encounters along the way, the film dissects the experience of asylum seekers in Cyprus : A PLO activist and exile from Iraq is denied asylum within 15 minutes; neo-nazi fundamentalists roam the streets in an attack on Muslim migrants; activists and academics organize an antifascist rally and clash with the neo-nazis; 195 migrants drown in the Mediterranean.
