Cinemaniac > Misliti Film 2026.

Choreographies of Violence: Counter-images

Jelena Jureša, Jean-Luc Godard, Nebojša Slijepčević

Developed in collaboration with the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka, the exhibition Choreographies of Violence: Counter-images is the 25th edition of the Cinemaniac programme Thinking Film, which focuses on exploring the complex relationships between collective memory and political responsibility through the language of moving images and audiovisual works by artists.

Choreographies of Violence emerges as an expanded dialogue with Jelena Jureša’s solo exhibition of the same title, presented at the MMSU at the end of last year and the beginning of this year, and includes works by Nebojša Slijepčević and Jean-Luc Godard.

Within the gaps of dominant narratives, we are confronted with counter-images – visual gestures of resistance that, through the practices of contemporary artists, deconstruct official models of memory and open up space for counter-memory. These are images through which art finds the possibility of active engagement towards a more just social and political future.

The works of Jelena Jureša, Jean-Luc Godard, and Nebojša Slijepčević confront us with historical truth and historical silence, pointing to the potential of art to speak about what is suppressed, forgotten, or unspeakable.

CINEMANIAC > THINKING FILM has, for the past quarter of a century in Pula, been an international exhibition and research platform that examines the connections between film, moving images, and contemporary art, and is realised as a side programme of the Pula Film Festival.

Curator: Branka Benčić, Director of MMSU Rijeka

Organisation: MMSU Rijeka, Metamedij Association, Apoteka – Space for Contemporary Art

Partner: KASK – School of Art Ghent