On Tuesday, December 19th, at 6:00 p.m., Dokukino KIC will host a masterclass by multi- awarded editor Jelena Maksimović under the title Editing in the post-Yugoslav context.
In the past ten years, Maksimović has edited more than 60 feature and documentary films and is the “busiest” editor of the younger generation in the region. With diverse aesthetics as a common thread that connects her previous film oeuvre and work on film, Maksimović emphasizes the freedom “which we all need but we have less and less.” The films she worked on are characterized by exceptional thematic and genre diversity, and in the masterclass, she will talk about the challenges she faces during editing and her repeated collaborations with renowned regional directors such as Ognjen Glavonić, Mladen Kovačević, Ivan Salatić, Marta Popivoda, Kumjana Novakova, Ivan Ramljak, Vladimir Perišić, Milica Tomović and others.
Jelena Maksimović graduated in FTV editing at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade, where she also earned the title of Master of Dramatic and Audio-Visual Artist – Film and Television Editor. Since 2015, she has been teaching as an assistant professor at the Faculty of Media and Communications in Belgrade. As an editor, she worked on numerous award-winning regional productions, including the films The Load (2018), You Have the Night (2018), Celts (2021), Landscapes of Resistance (2021), Snajka: Diary of Expectations (2023), El Shatt – A Blueprint for Utopia (2023), The Lost Country (2023), Silence of Reason (2023), which were screened at international film festivals in Cannes, Venice, Berlin, Locarno, Toronto, Rotterdam… In addition to her work on film, she achieved numerous collaborations in the field of videoart, spatial installations, and theatrical performances. In 2018, she co-directed the documentary Taurunum Boy (2018) with Dušan Grubin, and in 2020, she directed her feature debut, Homelands, which had its world premiere at the prestigious FID Marseille.
