Univerzitetska Misao (Jan 2017)
Nikolic's view of film and circumstances in which he created
Abstract
Zivko Nikolic's filmmaking, seen through his vision, contains a number of details that shed particular light on his art work and determine him as an artist. There were often heard statements that were not in the frame of Nikolic's understanding of the essence of cinema, but also those, though rare, that affirmatively reflected his creative discourse and the basic characteristics of his poetics. The subject of Nikolic's attention had never been exclusively external features of a work, nor he, as often pointed out, wanted to burden film by insignificant details. It is difficult, according to him, to say if the artist knows which way he walks onward and where it leads. And if he generally governed by instinct in an attempt to respond to the truth that feels? Nikolic had frequently emphasized the paradoxical interest in fostering mediocrity in Yugoslav cinema. Hence, it seems, his open repugnancy to, as he calls them, mythomaniacs, mediocrities and false greatnesses, and all that them mattered was to find a 'suitable' theme. He often cited Bergman's famous statement about the need to create. The need to create in Nikolic's case, we would say, occurred in the same way: that is to say, 'in the form of hunger.'.
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