Balkan Baroque (Balkan baroque) 25 years old

Marina Abramovic Performance

Balkan Baroque is a real and imaginary biography of the Yugoslavian performance artist Marina Abramovic. Rather than a mechanical reproduction of the artist's work, the film tries to create a new reality by translating the performances into cinematographic images that intensify the fictional context of the film. Abramovic plays herself, but ,appearing in multiple forms, blurs her own identity. Memories and fantasies intermingle with day to day rituals. The chronological narrative often breaks to reflect the interior voyage of the protagonist from the present to the past and back to the present. The result is a visually impressive film. Balkan Baroque had its world premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, 1999.

Credits

Balkan Baroque Cast

Name	Character
Marina Abramović She was 52, now 77 years old	as Herself
Ulay He was 55, now 80 years old	as Himself

Balkan Baroque Crew

Name	Department
Hetty Naaijkens-Retel Helmrich as Producer. She was 44 (now 69) years old	Production
Pierre Coulibeuf as Director. He was 50 (now 75) years old	Directing
Marina Abramović as Author. She was 52 (now 77) years old	Writing