This film, centered on the meeting between British creative force Alan Yentob and Serbian conceptual and performance artist Marina Abramović, explores her life but is equally about the conversation between the two. Yentob, a veteran documentary filmmaker, is an inextricable part of this film and he seems to want to present Abramović as we’ve never seen her before. And he succeeds. As they walk through huge warehouses that store Abramović’s artistic oeuvre, she and Yentob discuss the process by which she was discovered and her development as a performance artist. How did this little “duckling” from Serbia turn into such an important and groundbreaking artist? Why does the idea that she is the artist as well as the artwork resonate so much in today’s world? What is the meaning of her attraction to pain, self-harm, degradation, and death? And why are there so many triangles and stars in her work? In this fascinating, in-depth hour, Yentob reveals the person behind the provocation
introduction: Adam Low on Saturday, 15.30. in Asia Auditorium
