Iva Radivojevic
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.
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.