INPRAISEOFNOTHING(dir.BorisMitic,2017,Serbia,Croatia,France,78’)www.nothing.exposedwww.vimeo.com/ondemand/inpraiseofnothinghttps://www.facebook.com/inpraiseofnothing/-tagline:IggyPopnarratesNothing’sweekendonEarth-synopsis:AsatiricaldocumentaryparableaboutNothing,inwhichNothing,tiredofbeingmisunderstood,runsawayfromhomeandcomestoaddressusforthefirstandthelasttime.Researched through 20.000 pages of the most eclectic bibliography ever used in adocumentary film, shot over 8 years by 62 cinematographers in 70 countries; scored bycabaret grandmasters Pascal Comelade and the Tiger Lillies; narrated – in simple childlikerhymes–byIggyPop.- screenings: Locarno FF, IDFA (Masters),MoscowFF, Shanghai FF, Sarajevo FF, CPH:DOX,VisionsduréelNyon,TranscinemaLimaFF,ElGounaFF,SofiaFF,JihlavaDFF,BosphorusFF,DocPoint Helsinki/Tallinn, ZagrebDox, Tempo DFF Stockholm, One World Romania FF,Ljubljana DFF, Lichter FF Frankfurt, Go East FF Wiesbaden, Frames of Representation FFLondon,MediawaveFF,RigaPasaulesFF,BeldocsFF(openingfilm),Dok.FestMunich,DocsAgainstGravityFFWarsaw(openingfilm),SeattleFF,CinemambienteFFTorino(closingfilm),86FF,UnderhillFFPodgorica,SoloPositivoFFŠibenik,GoldenApricotFFYerevan,3SmokedOlivesIslandFestival,DokufestPrizren,LiburniaFF,MakedoxFFSkopje,NancyFF,MeetingsinSiberiaFFNovosibirsk,BalinaleFFBali,ManakiBrothersFFBitola,FestivaldeCineRadicalBolivia,FestifreakFFLaPlata,SaratovSufferingsFF,DokuArtBjelovar,BergenFF,DokuBaku,L’Alternativa Barcelona (closing film), Escales documentaires de La Rochelle, Etonnantsvoyageurs FF Saint-Malo, On vous ment FF Lyon, Tirana FF (closing film), Ficlo FF Olhao,Biennaledel’ImageenMouvementGeneva,FaenaArtCenterMiami/BuenosAires,InstituteofContemporaryArts London,Palazzodelle EsposizioniRome,PalazzoGrassiVenezia,ArtEncountersTimisoara,DiscutiasecretaArad,MomentaBiennaledel’imageMontreal...- broadcasters: Arte (France/Germany), RTS (Switzerland), SVT (Sweden), YLE (Finland),NPO/KRO-NCRV(Holland),TVC(Spain),HRT(Croatia)-financiers:FilmCenterSerbia,CroatianAudiovisualCenter,CNCCosip,Procirep,IDFABerthaFund,CreativeEuropeMEDIAProgram,CenterforContemporaryArtGeneva,FaenaArt-originalversion:English(narratedbyIggyPop)- available subtitles: Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Azeri, Bengali, Brazilian Portuguese,Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (simplified/traditional), Croatian, Dutch, English, Esperanto,French, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Latin, Latvian,Macedonian, Persian,Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish,Ukrainian

-poster,stills,director’sphoto(printresolution,300dpi):http://dribblingpictures.com/nothing-press-stills.zip-poster,stills,director’sphoto(webresolution,72dpi):http://dribblingpictures.com/nothing_72dpi.zip

-trailer:https://vimeo.com/323202268-filmexcerpt:https://vimeo.com/323201912-makingofteaser:https://vimeo.com/226649598/75d8bfcd1-makingofinterview:http://www.cineuropa.org/vd.aspx?t=video&l=en&did=333326-presskit:http://dribblingpictures.com/nothing-info.pdf-aplaylistofsongsaboutNothing:https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcAfUE_7tAocST9nRKP0lSvEGxOHN4whk

“ThisislikesomethingfromtheRenaissanceorsomething.”–IggyPop

“Apothéosique!”–PascalComelade

“Atorrentialblueslitany,ticklingthelimitsofhope.”–CineLapsus

“Toowisetobepoetic.”–FilmExplorer

“IggyPopisthevoiceofNothinginafilmabouteverything.Confused?Thisisjustthebeginningofa

massivecosmiccomedy.”–CPH:DOX

“TurnsoutZeitgeisthasavoiceoverofanagingagelesspunkicon.Howappropriate!”–Forbes

“PleasebethevoiceinmycarGPSsystem!”-AilenSchneeRoc

“ThispalatecleanserfromdirectorBorisMiticisneverlessthangorgeous.”-TheFinancialTimes

“Asensationallystrangesliceofavant-gardepontificating.”-TheGuardian

“Challengesthepietiesofdocumentary’spresumptivesobriety.”-Sight&Sound

“ThiswastheonlyrealthingIsawtoday.”-MissRomania

“Amonumentalabstraction!”-RadioBelgrade3

“ACharlieChekhovfuckyoumentary!”-JacobMichelson-Shamelashivili

“Watchingthisfilmislikeamixtureoffeelingsfrombeforeandaftermakinglove.”–AgronDomi

“CanIscreenthisfilmatmyfuneral,twice?”–JohanKolinsky

BorisMitic–director/writer/producer

Bornin1977insouthernSerbia.Livedon a few continents,worked for a few years for themost prestigious globalmedia,understood a few things and dedicated the rest of his life to creative parenting, creativefootball and creative documentaries: a Gypsy Mad Max recycling saga, a claustrophobictragicomedy of the absurd, a satirical documentary fairy tale, a feelgood parable aboutNothing.150+ festivals (Locarno, IDFA, Edinburgh, Abu Dhabi FF, Mar del Plata FF, Jerusalem FF),20broadcasters(ARTE,SVT,YLE,VPRO,RAI,AlJazeera),18awards(Sarajevo,Madrid,Rome,Mexico, Montevideo…), global lecturing track record (Edinburgh, Beirut, Doha, Kolkata,Copenhagen,Moscow,Geneva,Sofia,Sarajevo,Florence,Bergen,Shanghai,London,Taipei)Filmography:PrettyDyana(2003)UnmikTitanik(2004)Goodbye,HowAreYou?(2009)InPraiseofNothing(2017)www.dribblingpictures.com|www.dribblingpictures.com/academiaboris@dribblingpictures.com|mob/viber/w’app+385911255845|mob+381637715241

DIRECTOR’SNOTEContemporarydocumentarieshavebecometrappedinthewebofgoodintentions,reducedtoeitherhyperbolizedandoftenmanipulatedlifebites,ortopatronizingmoralizationinthename of some higher or ideal values that don’t really exist, or at least not in sustainablequantities.There are no appropriate discourses either, be they conservative, liberal, catastrophic oridealistic,whichcouldprovidemuchneededepistemologicalcomfort.HencethisquestintoNothing,majestuousandscary,imminentanddistant,everybody’sorphan.Nothingasapermanentpossibilityofnewbeginnings,Nothingaspost-ideologicaldeflation,Nothingasacinematicresponsetotheeverythingandtheanythingthatwearesoconfusinglyrunningafter.Ipersonallydon’tfeelanyemptinessinlife,quitethecontrary.IremembermybestfootballmoveswaybacktotheearlyEighties;I’vepaidduerespecttomyparents,tomycountry,tomostfriendsandtomypersonalreligion;Ihaveadorablekids,aresilientbodyandaplayfulmind.Yet, it is theveryconscienceofNothingness thatmakesour livesevenmore fulfilled,andprovidesthemosthonestgroundforassessingourattitudesandachievements,bothpersonalandprofessional–andonereallydoesn’tneedtobeaguru,aphysicistoraphilosophertogetthat.ThegoalofthisfilmistomakeeachviewerexperiencethispositivepotentialofNothinginhisorherownindividualway,throughpurecinematicpleasure.Ifthislittlesmileonthecornerof your mouth remains until the end of the screening, the mission will be more thanaccomplished.Iwouldbemosthappytodevelopthisfilmforanother30yearsandcompleteitatthefineageof68,butIstilldon’tthinkthattheoverallideawouldchange.WhatIwantedistodoistomakeavisualequivalenttothebestsatiricalbookever,Erasmus’s1513classic“InPraiseofFolly”,inwhichFollygoesaroundtheworldconvincingpeoplethatitistosmartertobemadthantobesmart.Iwanttodothesame,500yearslater,inthesenewDarkAges,withNothinginthemainrole.

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COMPANYPROFILE “In Praise of Nothing“ is produced by Dribbling Pictures, a 13-year-old Belgrade-basedproduction company founded by BorisMitić andMila Turajlić and devoted exclusively tocreativedocumentariesanddocumentaryacademia.AllourpreviousproductionshavepremieredatA-classfestivals,touredover300others,won35awardsandwerebroadcastedon25TV stations.Most recently, “InPraiseofNothing”openedinLocarno,while“TheOtherSideofEverything”launchedatTorontoIFF.TVpartnersincludeARTE,HBOEurope,SkyArts,ZDF,MDR,WDR,BR,SVT,YLE,DK,Canal+Poland, RTS-SSR, ERR, TVP, TV3, CYBC, RTV Slovenia, HRT, RTRS, B92, RTS, IBA, YesDocu,Rossia Kultura, Al Jazeera and Eurochannel,withmajor funding received from Eurimages,CreativeEurope,CNCCinemadumonde,CNCCosip,DohaFilmInstitute,IDFABerthaFund,GenevaCenterforContemporaryArt,theCroatianAudiovisualCenterandFilmCenterSerbia.Wealsoguestlectureglobally,asperwww.dribblingpictures.com/academia