Month: May 2021

Václav Marhoul (born 30 January 1960 in Prague) is a Czech film director, screenwriter and actor. He studied at Prague’s FAMU, graduating in 1984. He directed his first film Mazaný Filip, based on Raymond Chandler‘s books, in 2003. In 2008, his second film Tobruk was premiered. His latest film The Painted Bird, based on Jerzy Kosiński’s novel of the same title, premiered at the […]

Marta Popivoda is Belgrade born, Berlin-based queer, feminist, anti-fascist artist and cultural worker. Her first film Yugoslavia: how ideology moved our collective body is currently a part of the Dealing with the Past programme in  Meeting Point cinema Sarajevo, while her latest film Landscapes of Resistance had a world premiere in IFFR earlier this year (you can find our review here) is currently […]

In this essay, I will be exploring basic concepts presented by Slavoj Žižek in his essay „Tolerance as ideological category“, which is part of the book „Violence: Six Sideways Reflections“ published initially in 2008. The goal of this writing is to question Žižek’s writing in the context of today, to check how much did change […]