Micić's Suitcase: Introduction to Zenitism

After the tragic death of the young multimedia artist Dragan Ve. Ignjatović, his friends believe he left them with a legacy to execute one of his ideas. Ignjatović was obssessed with the life and work of Ljubomir Micić, a Serbian poet, founder of the art movement Zenitism and one of the most important figures of European avant-garde in the 1920s. Notes, writings and video recordings found in late Dragan’s room, become sequences of the film about Micić. During his exile in Paris and Cannes in the 1930s, Micić has published several remarkable novels in French. He was in contact with the greatest European minds of the time. However, after the World War II, the communist government persecuted and locked up Micić. He disappeard from the public scene and his works were no longer published. The man whose apartment was filled with paintings by Chagall, Malevich, Kandinsky, became known as a chewing gum vendor on the streets of Belgrade.