European film is poetry, American industry: Brčko and Sead Šabotić on the Oxo mission!

During the summer to planet Oxo, the section from Titograd airport to the southern zone of the Rose Gardens and back, this time the Brčkonaut finds a companion in a man who views basketball as a philosophy of movement, and film as the most intimate form of communication between cultures - the award-winning filmmaker, Sead Šabotic.

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Are intellectuals really naturally drawn to basketball, or is it just another urban legend from the former Yugoslavia? And why is there often an entire sociological study hidden behind the phrase "a true Nikšić"?

Topic by topic, Brčko and his guest reach out to Bota Koprivica, Željko Obradović, Duško Vujošević, and even to Franz Kafka and the question of what the last year of the life of a man who has become a symbol of modern absurdity looks like.

Why does European film resemble poetry? Why is it allowed to be slow, quiet, and stylistically unstable, while in America even silence must have dramaturgy?

And why is it that a young and unknown author from the Balkans sometimes gets a chance sooner than an anonymous American who has been waiting fifteen years for his first film?

From the Palme d'Or, the Golden Lion and the Golden Bear, to the obsessive viewing of Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Soviet and Irish films - this is not just a conversation about art, but about man's need to learn about other people's lives and his own illusions through film.

One of the most cinematic journeys to the planet Oxo.

Watch the new episode of the Brčkonauti podcast on Meridian Studio YouTube channel.

Sead Šabotić - the new Brčkonaut.

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