Igor Simic
Igor Simic was born in 1988 in Belgrade, Serbia. He graduated from Columbia University, New York, with a double-major in Film Studies and Philosophy. Igor’s student film Shelter was screened and awarded at several festivals. In 2012, he started the multimedia Shopping Cart Art Project. Besides film, Igor is a visual artist and writes an opinion column for a major Serbian newspaper.
Films
- The thinker in the supermarket / Mislilac u supermarketu7'
Anonymous consumer products on a shelf. Nonstop staccato from the small and large print from the packages, catalogues, consumer information and world history. In the foreground Auguste Rodin’s “Thinker”, posing as he does in countless copies the world over, sitting and thinking and thinking and depicting for all time Dante Alighieri. But this Thinker is made neither of bronze nor plaster, but of flesh and blood. Here and now a Serb contemplates human behaviour, until the infernal fire turns his supermarket too into the gates of hell.
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