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Rampart
Rampart
2021 Serbia 62 min N-13
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Marko spends time in his abandoned childhood apartment in Belgrade. Traces of the past are being drawn and memories, both idyllic and traumatic, are combined. The family VHS archive shows his universe during 1998 and 1999: gatherings, pets, videogames and moments of uncertainty reveal a common life embraced by a historical event.
“Much like its title suggests, Marko Grba Singh’s feature debut is a reflection on the defensive and resilient walls of memory. Between past and present domestic and public geographies of Belgrade, Rampart revisits and reinforces the (concrete, symbolic or imaginary) comforting structures that shield oneself from trauma. An honest, understated work of cinema whose deceptive simplicity belies a multi-layered reflection on family, memory and the still-lingering reminiscence of war.” (Andrei Tănăsescu)
World Premiere: Locarno Film Festival, 2021
Awards: Best Balkan Newcomer Award, DokuFest International Documentary and Short Film Festival, Kosovo, 2021
“Much like its title suggests, Marko Grba Singh’s feature debut is a reflection on the defensive and resilient walls of memory. Between past and present domestic and public geographies of Belgrade, Rampart revisits and reinforces the (concrete, symbolic or imaginary) comforting structures that shield oneself from trauma. An honest, understated work of cinema whose deceptive simplicity belies a multi-layered reflection on family, memory and the still-lingering reminiscence of war.” (Andrei Tănăsescu)
World Premiere: Locarno Film Festival, 2021
Awards: Best Balkan Newcomer Award, DokuFest International Documentary and Short Film Festival, Kosovo, 2021
Director's biography
Marko Grba Singh (b. 1988, Belgrade) has a PhD in Film directing, and currently is an artistic director of BELDOCS festival. His first two short documentary films premiered in Visions du Réel and later a docu-fiction Stars of Gaomeigu (2017) won the Most Innovative Short Film Award there. His short fiction If I Had It My Way I Would Never Leave (2015) was screened at the Cannes ACID selection in 2017.
Director(s) - Marko Grba Singh
Screenwriter(s) - Marko Grba Singh
Actors - Dobrivoje Radoja, Zoran Grba Singh, Nataša Grba Singh, Dragoslav Adamović, Marko Grba Singh
Producer(s) - Marko Grba Singh, Jelena Angelovski
Cinematographer - Ivan Marković
Editor(s) - Mina Petrović
Sound - Luka Barajević
Composer(s) -
Sales agent - Kino Rebelde
Distributor -
Production company -
Translation - Vaiva Statkaitytė
Dialogues - Serbian
Subtitles - Lithuanian, English
Director's biography
Marko Grba Singh (b. 1988, Belgrade) has a PhD in Film directing, and currently is an artistic director of BELDOCS festival. His first two short documentary films premiered in Visions du Réel and later a docu-fiction Stars of Gaomeigu (2017) won the Most Innovative Short Film Award there. His short fiction If I Had It My Way I Would Never Leave (2015) was screened at the Cannes ACID selection in 2017.
