DEBATE / FILM SCREENING
2022-07-30 21:00
Kotor Creative Hub
OutlookSaturday, July 30
Kotor Creative Hub, 9 p.m.
PHILOSOPHERS’ SQUARE
CONTEMPORARY FORTRESSES OF CULTURE: BOKA, TREBINJE, NOVI SAD
PANEL DISCUSSION
Screening of the Fortress Boka film
Director: DANILO VUJAČIĆ (Montenegro)
Partners: Western Balkans Fund, the Montenegrin Ministry of Defense, the Austrian Ministry of Defense, the Austrian Embassy, Erste Bank, Almašani, Music & More Summer Fest, Mostovi NGO, KOD NGO
The regional cooperation project titled Contemporary Fortresses of Culture: Boka, Trebinje, Novi Sad was initiated by the KotorArt International Festival, and is implemented with the support of the Western Balkans Fund and in partnership with the NGO Mostovi, the Music & More SummerFest from Trebinje, and the Almašani Association from Novi Sad. The project’s activities are to be realized within some of the major regional festivals and events and include public conferences, concerts, a film screening, guided tours of Austro-Hungarian fortresses, and a gastroheritological program. Some of the activities will be held at various fortresses themselves – places that may have once symbolized conflict and which were often closed and out of reach, but which for this occasion will become bastions of cultural heritage, dialogue, peace, connection, and diversity. The activities of this project in Kotor are part of the XII KotorArt Philosophers’ Square and will include the realization of a four-day conference highlighting the importance of the protection, valorization, and sustainable use of Austro-Hungarian fortifications and thereby contributing to the promotion and popularization of this cultural heritage. The conference is to be held from July 29 to August 1, and its program includes: a joint concert of the Montenegrin Military Orchestra and the Military Music of Upper Austria, conducted by Milo Belević and Gernot Haidegger, respectively; panel discussions on different management practices and the importance of a participatory approach and of the valorization and sustainable management of cultural heritage in Boka, Montenegro and the region; a screening of the Boka Fortress film produced by the NGO KOD; and performances by young Montenegrin musicians studying in Austria – vocal artists Antonija Vučinović and Lorena Janković, and pianist Andrija Jovović. With this project, the KotorArt International Festival continues the successful practice of intertwining art with important social themes and intensifies the level of regional cultural exchange and cooperation.
Danilo Vujačić, a director of the younger generation, is studying Philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy in Nikšić. He is the Executive Director of the DOK Produkcija production company. While being engaged in that company, he has worked on the production and directing of documentaries, the production of music videos, television, and online commercials, the organization and live broadcast of small and large events, as well as the production and editing of stop-motion animated films. In addition to his professional engagement, Danilo Vujačić has worked as a volunteer on projects realized by the KOD organization, and one of them is the Fortress Boka film. Among the projects in which he has taken part, there stand out the Austro-Hungarian Fortifications in Montenegro documentary film, which he also directed, the Kodirana Nepravda documentary research series, the Fires in Montenegro – Causes and Consequences short documentary, a series of stop-motion animated clips for the Šumska Straža project, and the short stop-motion animated films The Oak and Krnja.
