Promotion of the new book "Days of Dreams" by the famous Montenegrin documentarian Momir Matović, will be held today in Podgorica, in the Multimedia Hall of the Cultural and Information Center "Budo Tomović", at 20 p.m.
In addition to the author, the book will be discussed by a lecturer at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Cetinje, Dr. Jelena Mišeljić and culture editor at the daily newspaper "Pobjeda" Jovan NikitovićThe book is published by MFILM Montenegro and the Film Center of Montenegro.
Matović also has a feature-length documentary film "Days of Dreams" behind him, in which he presents personalities Vlatko Gilić, Predrag Golubović i Živka Nikolić as individuals who successfully portrayed the miraculous pattern of everyday life in Montenegro.
"The book 'Days of Dreams' is structured in three basic units, according to the authors Matović deals with. The content consists of documents, interviews and reviews of interlocutors: from film professionals, through family members, childhood friends, film critics and historians, all the way to students and younger generations who have been strongly influenced by the poetics of these authors, but also "just" meetings and conversations with them," Mišeljić pointed out.
Momir Matović carefully and meticulously approaches the organization of material based on archival material and a series of striking interviews he conducted, added Mišeljić, noting that this is already recognizable in the author's film and historiographical work.
“With this kind of organized, we can even say “directed”, content, the book offers a story about directors who, in an indirect and direct way, marked the history of film in the Yugoslav space. At the same time, “Days of Dreams” is a testimony to their work, individual styles and preoccupations, but also to the broader social context from which they came and in which they created. In this way, Matović offers us an important cross-section of different historical moments that marked the circumstances of Gilić, Golubović and Nikolić’s work. Matović’s cross-section can thus be used in all future research in relation to both their respective authorial processes and the socio-political movements that marked a cultural space. Gilić's wartime upbringing in Podgorica, Golubović's openness and versatile nature, and Nikolić's Ozrinići, are just some parts of a rich collage of influences on their creativity, which Matović collected and archived on the pages of this book...", added Mišeljić.
Momir Matović was born in 1951 in Titograd (Podgorica). He graduated from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade - film and TV camera group, in the class of professor Nikola Majdak. He is one of the most famous Montenegrin and world-renowned authors in the field of documentary film. He is the author of 10 documentary films produced by “Zeta Film” from Budva, he has participated in more than 160 film festivals in the region and the world and has won numerous awards and recognitions, including the Podgorica City Award, the “13 July” Award and the title of Distinguished Cultural Creator. He is also the author of documentary series in the field of Montenegrin cinema, theater, drama amateurism, cinema amateurism, the city heritage of Podgorica and feature-length documentary films with themes from Montenegro. For researching Montenegrin film heritage, he is the winner of the “Ratko Đurović” award (2020) awarded by the Montenegrin Cinematheque. Retrospectives of his documentary films have been organized in all major centers in the region and Europe.
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