Brijuni – A Necromantic Theatre in Rijeka is a part of the conference POSTCOLONIAL, DECOLONIAL, POSTIMPERIAL, DEIMPERIAL in Rijeka.

May 16
20:30 – 22:00 | Film Screening: Brijuni – A Necromantic Theatre | by Behzad Khosravi Noori and Magnus Bärtås
Art-kino Croatia, Krešimirova 2, 51000, Rijeka

1st Prize of the Jury of the Ministry of Culture and Science of North Rhine-Westphalia

Statement of the jury:
"This film, which we chose first after much deliberation, builds a multi-layered architecture out of the possibilities and impossibilities of history. A voice from beyond and footsteps on the inlays of ideology take us into a narrative prism that allows us to understand the complexities of our present and the depths of power. The Hotel al Rashid with its 1001 rooms offers the filmmakers just enough space to show us how to think, explore and feel cinematically."

On Hospitality is a necromantic documentary where the Iraqi artist Layla Al-Attar returns from the dead to tell the story of how a Swedish company built a luxurious hotel in Baghdad, ordered by Saddam Hussein for the 1983 summit of the Non-Alignment Movement. War changed the plans. Layla made a mosaic at the entrance of the hotel, depicting George Bush’s face, and her house was hit by an American missile.

The International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, founded in 1954, is considered the oldest short film festival in the world and is one of the largest international platforms for the short form.
https://www.kurzfilmtage.de/en/about-us/#c264

https://www.expressen.se/kultur/therese-bohman/ingen-angrar-en-tur-till-ufo-norrkoping/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1-bJHrI-StAvjNBq1kmwC9Lv1Z-RiJefvHr3CQzzOpzzJC8VF6tK9n7L8_aem_AR8Jw1qWrLXq3EZCV948uXoo9K-j9qffLVb-ayTvi9ITiy4IaGqchnC_djGKxhGEYyXpWg0rTb48z84kt9Z5fDOC

Together with Andrej Slávik I’ve been editing “Mikrohistorier”, a secial issue of Magazine Hjärnstorm. Release at Konstnärshuset Stockholm.