Rooftop house near Branko’s bridge, Belgrade

Targeted screenings are aimed at producing links and chains of associations between the film and the reactions of the viewers (as documented and presented in the Open Testpanel, which theoretically opens up for a second audiences' associations built on the first ones').

Camilla Larsson, quoted from the Nonplaces-catalogue:

"At the Belef festival Brolin exhibited two interconnected
videos, Roof Girls, 2006, and Showing Roof Girls, 2007, with an accompanying poster announcing the screening. The two videos are inverting the traditional way of writing history, telling us in an anecdotic way about life itself and reveal the very intersection of the singular with the structural by
connecting individuals in different countries and in different situations. Roof Girls was screened in the home of Igor (winter 2006), a punk living in a small house built on the roof of an apartmentbuilding in central Belgrade. The screening produced a number of associations, and the documentation was turned into its’ own film."

Igor looks at Roof Girls, then talks of life on the roof in 90’s Serbia. Personal stories and historic events. The rooftops as a nonplace for negotiating your own possible city upon. A second film about Igor, Splitting Scenes, is soon to be edited and will be about growing up punk in a populist environment during war.

Me, quoted from discussion in the Nonplaces-catalogue:

"What I got from this being a more freeform tour
was the possibility to try out the spread of associations,
from city to city - like taking the Roof Girls film to Belgrade and screening it in a house built on a rooftop,
and then making a new film out of the associations provoked
by the Roof Girls in the inhabitant of this house.
And from there, ending up in a totally new story. And
this Karlsson-character in his house on the roof in Belgrade
took me right back to that 50’s diner in the Urals,
where the Russians were telling me how big Karlsson
was in Russia, even though I thought Karlsson was a bit of a
prick - “Yes but here, in Russia, antisocial is heroic!”
Ideally, if you follow up on all your inklings, through
this way of producing an exhibition you might get a set
of collective desires developed, or maybe you just get a
collection of individual ones - either way it takes us on
a trip."