In Praise of Nothing

synopsis

“A whistleblowing documentary parody about Nothing.” That is how the filmmakers describe In Praise of Nothing. In fact, Nothing is the only protagonist of this essay-like film. An ironic and unflinchingly critical monologue, delivered in simple rhymes and with the voice of Iggy Pop, accompanied by captivating and succinctly expressive footage shot by several dozen people all over the world with the assignment to “shoot nothing.”

„A cinematic equivalent to Erasmus’s humanistic classic In Praise of Folly, in which Folly goes around the world arguing it is smarter to be mad than smart. 500 years later, it is Nothing who gets the main role.“ B. Mitić

biography

Serbian director Boris Mitić (1977) debuted as a self-taught filmmaker with Pretty Dyana (2003, Ji.hlava IDFF 2004), named after the car used by Belgrade’s Romani who make a living collecting trash. In UNMIK Titanik (2004), he tells the story of a group of people who have spent several years living in a one-building UN ghetto in Kosovo, and Goodbye, How Are You? (2009, Ji.hlava IDFF 2009) explored Serbian satyrical aphorisms.

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