Cultural Worker 3 in 1 is a documentary film about the role of the left-oriented independent cultural-artistic scene and cultural workers in the region of ex-Yugoslavia. Following the life and work of several characters in four cities of former Yugoslavia the film explores two issues – what it means to be a cultural worker in post-socialist contexts of Skopje, Belgrade, Zagreb and Ljubljana, and what the possibilities for action and intervention in social reality are, from the position of art and culture. In this way, the film reflects on actual tendencies and problematics at the critical independent cultural scenes, as well as on relations between art, theory and activism, which are strongly present in the region.

Director: Marta Popivoda
Cinematographer: Maja Radošević
Editor: Nataša Damnjanović
Sound Designer: Jakov Munižaba
Producer: Dragana Jovović

PARTICIPANTS

Belgrade: Jelena Vesić, Kontekst Kolektiv, Ana Vujanović, Miško Šuvaković, Milena Dragićević Šešić
Skopje: Biljana Tanurovska Kjulakovski, Iskra Geshoska, Slavčo Dimitrov
Ljubljana: Lidija Radojević, Rok Vevar, Aldo Milohnić, Marina Gržinić
Zagreb: Emina Višnić, Tomislav Medak, Goran Sergej Pristaš, Teodor Celakoski

The film was produced within Deschooling Classroom project (o^o) by TkH (Walking Theory) from Belgrade and Kontrapunkt from Skopje, financially supported by Swiss Cultural Program for the Western Balkans.

Marta Popivoda is a film and video maker and a cultural worker based in Belgrade and Berlin. She graduated in film directing from the FDA in Belgrade, as well as a postgraduate program in experimental film at the UdK Berlin. She has been a member of the editorial collective TkH (Walking Theory) within which she initiated and participated in many local and international artistic and cultural projects (such as illegal_cinema). Her latest film “Yugoslavia, How Ideology Moved Our Collective Body” premiered at the 63rd Berlinale.