Vukica Đilas
Acting
Biography
Vukica Đilas (1948-2001) was a journalist, writer, translator, film critic, and artist from Belgrade, Serbia. She studied dramaturgy at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade and belonged to a group of young artists interested in underground and experimental cinema together with Tom Gotovac, Slobodan Šijan, Lazar Stojanović (in whose 1974 film Plastic Jesus she performed). For almost 30 years after 1970, she shot her film diary in a frame-by-frame style, mostly on Kodachrome double 8mm film, using a small Pentaka camera.
Known For
Tom is a young guy from Zagreb, completely without money, trying to make films in Belgrade. He somehow manages to survive with a help of women. He doesn't believe in anybody, respects no one and is in constant conflict with the ruling system and order. After being left by a silly American girl, Tom binds with a woman whose husband is abroad. When she kicks him out, he moves in with her husband's sister, who later kills him in the attack of jealousy. All this is shown in the context of major historical events prior to 1968. with lots of archive footage of world leaders.
Plastic Jesus
It compiles more than twenty years of passionately recorded “pictures from life” captured on super 8, that Vukica Djilas shot from 1970 to late 1990s.