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.