Flotacija (Flotacija)

Eluned Zoë Aiano, Alesandra Tatić

In Eastern Serbia, a town historically renowned for magical practices and supernatural creatures is being eaten away by an ever-expanding copper mine. The conflicts between nature/tradition and industry/modernity shape the lives of the family whose destiny is tied to both and who does their best to ensure the survival of their culture. Lifelong miner Dragan Markovic is the last in a line of dragon hunters, while his sister Desa, the widow of the union leader, tries to continue his legacy. Caught in the middle of global socio-political forces, the Markovics continue in their optimism and keep dreaming of striking gold, both literally and metaphorically, against all odds. Flotacija follows them over several years, with humour and tenderness, bizarreness and humanity.

Serbia 2023, '77

DIRECTOR: Eluned Zoë Aiano, Alesandra Tatić

SCENARIO: Eluned Zoë Aiano, Alesandra Tatić

CAMERA: Eluned Zoë Aiano, Milica Drakulić, Vincent Laurin

MONTAGE: Eluned Zoë Aiano, Marija Kovačina

PRODUCERS: Miloš Ljubomirović, Greta Rauleac

PRODUCTION: Servia Film, Wild Pear Arts

FESTIVALS & AWARDS:

AJB DOC FF: Special mention (2023)

goEast (2023)

Beldocs (2023)

Verzio FF (2023)

Eluned Zoë Aiano

Eluned Zoë Aiano is a filmmaker, editor and translator with a background in Visual Anthropology whose work is generally centred on Central/Eastern Europe. Her short All Her Dying Lovers, an animated documentary made in collaboration with Anna Benner, premiered at Hot Docs and was published on the New York Times Op Docs section. She attended IFDA Academy 2022. She has been selected for various residencies, including the Wapping Artist Residency in Berlin, the Pépinières Européennes de Création residency in Quebec. She is currently artist in residence with the Aix- en-Provence Opera Festival. She also writes about film and is a regular contributor to the East European Film Bulletin.

Alesandra Tatić

Alesandra Tatić is a visual anthropologist based in France. Her ethnographic fieldwork is global, yet mostly focused on the Balkans and the Mediterranean. Alesandra works with and for the women’s labour movement, exploring feminist resistance, and migration phenomena. Extending feminist collaborative work methods from academia and activism to filmmaking, she co-founded the Wild Pear Arts collective. Her academic work has been published in Journal des anthropologues, and Nuevo mundo, nuevos mundos, among others. Alesandra is a PhD candidate in Anthropology at the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS).

Flotacija (Flotacija)

Eluned Zoë Aiano, Alesandra Tatić

Eluned Zoë Aiano

Alesandra Tatić

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