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Taskovski Films is extremely proud to present HOMECOMING. MARINA ABRAMOVIC AND HER CHILDREN directed by Boris Miljković – a new documentary about the one and only Marina Abramović. A film that deepens into the artist’s roots, youth, and childhood in her hometown, the moment she finds herself back for the first time after her years of career, led by a retrospective exhibition whose final destination is Belgrade.   

Selected to open the Summer Program in Sarajevo and now with an online festival, it will be streaming online during the festival 15-22 August.

The outline of the film is The Cleaner, Marina Abramović’s big traveling retrospective exhibition, presented in Europe’s cultural capitals, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Oslo, Florence, Bon, and Torun. Its final destination is Belgrade, Marina’s hometown, significant to her on many levels. The story unfolds on various locations, including city streets, galleries, museums, apartments of New York, The Hudson, Zurich, Torun and Belgrade, with sights, actions and works yet to be seen, an abundance of emotion and life circumstances.

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Serbian and New York-based, Marina Abramovic is the first and world reference live performance artist and filmmaker. Her work explores body art, endurance art and feminist art, the relationship between performer and audience, the limits of the body, and the possibilities of the mind. 

DIRECTOR’S NOTE // BORIS MILJKOVIC

The famous artist is coming back home, after forty years of work, life, and love abroad, after many successes, disappointments, glory, and failures. She knows very well that coming back home is not an easy step, but this is the final stop of her The Cleaner show, an exhibition that somehow collects her whole life. So, Belgrade is the last stop, but, at the same time, Belgrade, her birthplace was the first one, the start.

Naturally, she closes the circle. But closing the circle is not that simple…

On the occasion of the premiere at Sarajevo Film Festival, world-recognized magazine Variety talked with Marina Abramović and the director Boris Miljković about the artist’s reunion with her hometown, filming of this documentary and all the circumstances that led to that event. Read more in the article below.

The emotional return to Belgrade offered her a sense of a life come full circle—perhaps, even, a sense of closure. “Coming back for me is really [allowing] people in Belgrade to see what kind of art I’ve been doing all these years, and so much work was inspired by my country, and my background,” she said. “To me, it was a good thing to do it. And I think, actually, that’s it. I’ve done my duty to my country.”