Marija Gajicki

Vivisect

directed by:	Marija Gajicki
producer country:	Serbia/Montenegro
production year:	2003
duration:	15 min
camera:	Dobrivoje Dejanović, Predrag Radosavljević
edited by:	Aleksandar Komnenović
produced by:	Vojvođanka – Regional Women's Initiative
distributed by:	Vojvođanka – Regional Women's Initiative

Awards

best short film at the Human Rights Film Festival in Barcelona, Spain (2003)

Marija Gajicki has been professionally engaged in journalism since 1992. Since 1994, she has been active in the civilian sector of the former Yugoslavia, initiator of many regional and cross border projects in South Eastern Europe. Author of six short documentary films about the activities in the NGO sector. In 2004, she launched in Novi Sad the Human Rights Festival - VIVISECTfest.

Film plot

Reactions of visitors of the "Blood and Honey" war photographs exhibition by Ron Haviv, organized in Novi Sad, in September, 2002. The film documents and testifies the social and political situation in Serbia after the fall of Milošević's regime, and highlights the reasons why the process of facing the truth about the wars and war crimes committed in the last decade of the 20th century in the former Yugoslavia is so difficult.