The conflicts in the former Yugoslavia have driven many families away from their homes and the total number of refugees has now reached one million. In 'Model House' Radovanovic tells the story of an ordinary woman who dreams of having her own home again, after the war took away her husband and left her with a daughter and young son while her two older sons are living in London now. She shows us a house, takes us through the rooms and then, just as you start to think 'Well, I've seen worse' it transpires that she doesn't live there at all but is just the cleaning lady. As in his earlier work 'My Country - for internal use only' (1999) Radovanovic makes clever use of war footage, images from daily life and from the media, and denounces the hollow rhetoric of politicians in a semi-documentary style. As he chronologically relates the madness of the conflicts as they develop, he manages to convey a sense of the feelings of displacement the victims must have, without resorting to sentimentality. It is rather the plain facts of the daily lives of these ordinary people that make us all the more painfully aware of the devastation caused by (civil) war.
– Leo Reijnen
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Director of photography and camera Radoslav Vladic, music Sasha Habic, writer, producer Goran Radovanovic, editing Milena Arsenijevic, Dejan Petrovic, sound Marton Jankou
Goran Radovanovic ° 1957 Belgrade, Yugoslavia
Lives and works in Belgrade
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