Aleph

Aleph

62nd TIFF: Greek Premiere

A mystical travelogue, a journey to find that place of connection, of clarity, of understanding across language, geography, and experience. The thoughts, ideas, and dreams of protagonists in ten countries spanning five continents are revealed through conversation, activity, and contemplation. These collective stories serve as pieces of a puzzle that lead to what the Argentinean writer Jorge Luis Borges called “the unimaginable universe.“ Aleph blends cinematic elements of narrative fiction and magic realism and the rigor and mechanics of documentary practice to explore the dreams, stories, preoccupations, thoughts, and lived and imagined experiences of its protagonists – actors, performers, musicians and non-professionals. A unique narrative that introduces us to a different understanding of meaning itself, both revelation and challenge – a venture achieved through play with uncertainty and serendipity.

Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.
Available at the Agora Market.
Direction: Iva Radivojević
Script: Iva Radivojević
Cinematography: Jimmy Ferguson
Editing: Iva Radivojević
Sound: Leandros Ntounis
Actors: Guillermina Pico, Bouamama BenFarah, Žarko Lauševic, The Sisters of St George Monastery, Irina Giri, Nara Rakchang, Desire Marea
Production: ivaasks flms, Picture Palace Pictures
Producers: Madeleine Molyneaux, Iva Radivojević, Vilka Alfier
Format: DCP
Color: Color
Production Country: USA, Croatia, Qatar
Production Year: 2021
Duration: 91'
Contact: Picture Palace Pictures

Iva Radivojević

Iva Radivojević was born in Belgrade and spent her early years in Yugoslavia and Cyprus. She is an artist and filmmaker who currently divides her time between subarctic Alaska, Brooklyn, and Lesvos. Her work presents itself as a collection of fragments (observations, poetry, images, sounds, melodies, languages) which collage together to connect into a ruminating whole. Her work circles around displacement and belonging, seeking to connect to the metaphysical or the magical. Iva’s films were screened at New York Film Festival, Rotterdam International Film Festival, CPH:DOX, SXSW, DocLisboa, Museum of Modern Art (NYC), PBS, and New York Times Op-Docs. She is the recipient of the Sundance Art of Non-Fiction Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, Princess Grace Special Project Award, and Film Fellowship. When not working on her own films, Iva enjoys editing, cutting both documentary and narrative films; her credits include Celia Rowson-Hall's feature MA (Venice Film Festival, 2015) and All That Passes by Through A Window That Doesn’t Open, an editor and co-writer, winner of the Regard Neuf Award at Visions Du Réel in 2017.

Filmography

2010 Following Crickets (short)
2011 Thread (short doc)
2011 Nobody Can Predict the Moment of Revolution (short doc)
2012 Mixba (short doc)
2014 Evaporating Borders (doc)
2018 Nattο (short doc)
2021 Aleph
2024 When the Phone Rang