Vladimir Todorović
Directing
Biography
Vladimir Todorovic is a filmmaker, new media artist and an educator. His film Water Hands received a special mention award at Yamagata Documentary Film Festival in 2011.
Known For
Three stories set across Serbia, Singapore and Spain follow immigrants and their uneasy relationships with foreign landscapes. In Serbia, a man comes back to his hometown after years living abroad. He feels estranged while visiting places he once knew well, and is confused about the disappearance of the intimate connection he had with once familiar landscapes. In Singapore, an expatriate couple living a monotonous life face upheaval after an encounter with cosplayers in their neighborhood. This is followed by a trip to a coral reef, which has managed to survive in an industrial area. In the final segment, a couple from Latin America arrives in Spain to search for a better life. They are ready to explore the new landscape, but uneasiness and fear of the unknown haunt them.
Disappearing Landscape

In this experiment, we used a mimoid sample from Solaris' ocean and measured its reaction to several types of non-ionizing and ionizing radiation.
Tunable Mimoid

Montenegro: a rich Italian man decides to build a house with the help of a native family in the middle of a lost, almost impossible to break, karstic landscape.
Karst

An exchange of filmed correspondence between three documentarists, respectively Indonesian, Serbian and South Korean. Attentive to cultures other than their own, each films zones with blurred or shifting borders.
Fluid Boundaries

Algodreams are created by prompting AI systems to dream about the future of life on planet Earth. Their stories, animations and sounds are shaped by numbers, predictions and mathematical models.
Algodreams

Water hands is the literal Chinese word for ‘sailor’. The sailor himself remains off-screen in this film, just like the woman who is waiting for him. The tight black-and-white images move through Singapore and Montenegro, while a logic all of its own links the various worlds and narrations.
Water Hands

Scientists have discovered the unique ability of an extraterrestrial organism (mimoid) to regenerate after being exposed to harmful man-made radiation waves. This video was produced for the general public in order to promote the benefits of extraterrestrial studies on the Sustain Earth initiative.
Turnable Mimoid

The Snail on the Slope is a generative movie based on a book of the same title by Strugatsky brothers. The novel is set on an unknown planet, where humans have a base from which they are investigating and trying to conquer the Forest. The Forest, which is a huge single organism is constantly changing and fighting back. It is also dangerous and there are a lot of unexplained phenomena that they are discovering.
The Snail on the Slope
SILICA-ESC is a generative movie that portrays possible computing platform for the future. The story takes place in Singapore, where the decision about massive production of the new computing platform - SILICA-ESC is about to be made. The protagonists challenge the emerging supercomputer with issues like: class segregations, rules of art making, and spirituality. These questions seem like they are very important for the future developments of the global IT sector. Also, they are considered to be the most difficult ones and challenging for the super computer. But, SILICA-ESC responds with ease. By emitting audio, visual and scent impulses, she mesmerizes her first public users.