In Praise of Nothing
- Title: In Praise of Nothing
- Year of production: 2017
- Duration: 78`
- Director: Boris Mitić
- Screenwriter: Boris Mitić
- Camera: 62 snimatelja u 70 zemalja
- Sound: Bruno Tarrière, Ivan Uzelac
- Editing: Boris Mitić
- Music: Pascal Comelade, The Tiger Lillies
- Producers: Boris Mitić, Fabrizio Polpettini
- Production: Dribbling Pictures , Anti-Apsurd , La Bête
A satirical documentary parable about Nothing, in which Nothing, tired of being misunderstood, runs away from home and comes to address us for the first and the last time. Researched through 20.000 pages of the most eclectic bibliography ever used in a documentary film, shot over 8 years by 62 cinematographers in 70 countries; scored by cabaret grandmasters Pascal Comelade and the Tiger Lillies; narrated – in simple childlike verse – by Iggy Pop.
Director:
Boris Mitić was born in 1977 in Leskovac, Serbia and currently lives in Zagreb. He worked for some of the most prominent media for several years before deciding to pursue documentary filmmaking. His four documentaries (In Praise of Nothing, Goodbye, How are you?, Unmik Titanik, and Pretty Dyana)...
Festivals where it was shown:
- 2017. - 70th Locarno festival (Locarno, Switzerland)
- 2019. - ZagrebDox (Zagreb, Croatia)
- 2018. - Sofia Film Festival (Sofia, Bulgaria)
- 2018. - 48th International Film Festival Visions du Reel (Nyon, Switzerland)
- 2019. - goEast - Festival of Central and Eastern European Film (Wisbaden, Germany)
- 2018. - Munich International Documentary Film Festival (Munich, Germany)
- 2018. - International Documentary Film Festival BELDOCS (Belgrade, Serbia)
- 2019. - Tempo Documentary Festival (Stockholm, Sweden)
- 2018. - Ljubljana Documentary Film Festival (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
- 2018. - One World Romania International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival (Bukurest, Romania)
- 2019. - CPH:DOX - Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival (Copenhagen, Denmark)
- 2018. - Millenium Documentary Film Festival (Bruxelles, Belgium)
- 2018. - Lichter Film Festival (Frankfurt, Germany)
- 2018. - Moscow International Film Festival (Moscow, Russia)
- 2018. - Riga Pasaules Film Festival (Riga, Latvia)
- 2018. - Mediawave International Film and Music Gathering (Komarom, Hungary)
- 2018. - Docs Against Gravity Film Festival (Poland)
- 2018. - Institute of Contemporary Arts: ICA (London, Great Britain)
- 2018. - Shanghai International Film Festival (Shanghai, China)
- 2018. - Seattle International Film Festival (Seattle, USA)
- 2018. - International Film Festival Transcinema (Lima, Peru)
- 2017. - El Gouna Film Festival (Cairo, Egypt)
- 2018. - CinemAmbiente (Torino, Italy)
- 2018. - 9th Underhill fest (Podgorica, Montenegro)
- 2018. - Yerevan International Film Festival Golden Apricot (Yerevan, Armenia)
- 2017. - 16. Doku Fest (Prizren, Kosovo)
- 2017. - Makedox (Skopje, Macedonia)
- 2017. - Bergen International Film Festival (Bergen, Norway)
- 2018. - Biennale de L'Image en Mouvement (Geneva, Switzerland)
- 2018. - Faena Art (Buenos Aires, Argentina )
- 2018. - Art and counters biennale (Temisoara, Romania)
- 2018. - Momenta Biennale de L'Image (Montreal, Canada)
- 2017. - 23rd Sarajevo Film Festival (Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
- 2017. - Manaki Brothers Film Festival (Bitoli, Macedonia)
- 2017. - Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival (Jihlava, Czech Republic)
- 2017. - International Bosphorus Film Festival (Istanbul, Turkey)
- 2018. - DocPoint (Tallinn, Estonia)
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