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He is a 2015 Guggenheim Fellow, a 2014 Jerome Fellow and works as a filmmaker, artist, and curator. He is the co-creator of the 2016 Brooklynification, an uncomfortable comedy series about gentrification. Set in Brooklyn.
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Evaporating Borders (2014)
Complex poetry, deeply human, intelligent and moving. One of the most beautifully shot docs you can see.
Evaporating Borders starts with a soft voice over and a spellbinding image of the sea seen through a small, ancient window. Like the movie, we quickly go to the other side of that window, engaging deeply in the human face of the complex issues of immigration, identity, nationalism and personal experience of what it means to find a home. I first learned of Iva Radivojevic's work through her beautiful series of short bio-docs on her site ivaasks.com. In those, as in this movie, she has a way to get simultaneously to the politics of an issue and an identity while never for a frame losing the complex humanity and beauty of the people and issues discussed. I would like to guess it is the calm shock of aesthetics that makes this happen, but I secretly feel it must be the director herself and her proximity to the people, places and issues she touches. Through her very personal lens and voice, this movie takes us into a geo-political issue in a way that feels individual and lived.
It may be the best documentary (or un-documentary) you see this year.