PROJECT: CANCER

Documentaries

Directed by: Damjan Kozole

Duration: 1 h 31 min

Format: Digitalno

Code: 431715

EAN: 3838898431715

A documentary about a year in the life of artist Ulay after he learns he has cancer. “In the summer of 2011, Ulay and I started talking about film. In the autumn, Ulay found out he had cancer. He called me and said that our project was not going to happen, because under the circumstances it made no sense to start or plan anything. I insisted that we start shooting tomorrow. He told me he didn't like short films, that I had promised him a feature. I told him: stay alive and we would make a feature-length film” (Damjan Kozole, director).

SYNOPSIS

The camera follows Ulay, a radical conceptual artist from Amsterdam, for a whole year. Ulay was a pioneer of body art, performance art and polaroid art; he was a transvestite, a half man - half woman, a social activist ..., but he is most famous for his long year collaboration with Marina Abramović and their performances that have achieved iconic status. In 2009, Ulay moved to Ljubljana. When talks and plans on the film were already under way, Ulay was diagnosed with cancer, and all plans changed. The first scenes were shot in November 2011 at the Ljubljana Institute of Oncology, where Ulay was receiving chemotherapy. When his health slightly improved, he decided to visit his friends around the world and the camera followed him on this so called farewell journey: to Berlin for the premiere of Marina's film, then to New York and finally to »his« Amsterdam. Ulay treats this illness as his biggest and most important project ever, hence the title of the film Project: Cancer.

ABOUT THE FILM

Starring Frank Uwe Laysiepen (Ulay), Marina Abramović (Marina), Saskia Bos, Chuck Close, Chris Dercon, Roselee Goldberg, Chrissie Iles, Sean Kelly, Vlado Kreslin, Charlemagne Palestine, Dirk Polak and Henk Schiffmacher. The director is Damjan Kozole, the screenwriter is Tevž Logar, the director of photography is Matjaž Mrak, the editor is Jurij Moškon, the author music of the music is Silence, the sound designer is Julij Zornik and the producer is Danijel Hočevar from the production company Vertigo.

Film is available to watch and stream online i.e to rent for 14 days or one year. With slovenian subtitles.