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Director - Country
Serbia
Šaponja Dusan
Battery Man
Meet the man whose life was changed by electricity. An extraordinary person, who can fry a hot dog with bare hands, in an attempt to become the first human laser! Slavisa Pajkic, aka Biba Struja (Electric Biba) is capable of conducting electricity and he can consciously control its power while discharging it. The central story of the movie is inner and outer journey of a rural superhero in his attempt to discover what exactly happens in his body, but also to enter Guinness Book of Records before he loses his power. Is he an illusionist or real superhero?
Meet the man whose life was changed by electricity. An extraordinary person, who can fry a hot dog with bare hands, in an attempt to become the first human laser! Slavisa Pajkic, aka Biba Struja (Electric Biba) is capable of conducting electricity and he can consciously control its power while discharging it. The central story of the movie is inner and outer journey of a rural superhero in his attempt to discover what exactly happens in his body, but also to enter Guinness Book of Records before he loses his power. Is he an illusionist or real superhero?
Dusan Saponja was born in 1976 in Zadar, Croatia. The year of 1995 marks Dusan Saponja’s first direct involvement with media: for radio B92 he co-authored the “Srbokap” (“Serbo-Cop”), a popular radio drama wittily and subtly criticising the absurdity and ethical blindness of Milosevic’s police achinery.
Consequently the B92 grew from an underground radio station into one of the most respective media networks in the region, and the third most viewed TV station in the country. Dusan Saponja’s involvement with it has changed accordingly: mainly due to celebrated “Ciklotron” and “Fatalni putopis” (A Fatal Journal) documentary TV series.
Filmography (selection): Blejač (Hanging About) – Life of a young unemployed man in a transition country – 24 minutes; Preživljavanje (Staying Alive) – In Helsinki, with their sleeping bags on their backs, in the search for a job to live on – 24 minutes; Opstanak
(Survival) – The life of four Belgrade homeless persons – 24 minutes; Pismeni (An Essay Test in Serbian) – 16 primary school essay tests in Serbian were turned into a short film – 24 minutes; Gradovi (Cities Around the World) – four topics (police, games children play, the most important problem in a city and things one can buy for one dollar) in four cities around the world: Kali (Colombia), LA (USA), the Okinawa island (Japan) and Belgrade, Serbia – 24 minutes; Tortura (Torture) – Strong liaisons between state institutions and services in their fight against ordinary citizens – 24 minutes; Beyond 2000 – Serbia and all the things that make it a special case. Crematoriums, welders and glass blowers – 24 minutes Invalidi; (Invalids) – A story about football club Voždovac fans from Belgrade – 22 minutes; Zavičajna kuhinja (Home-Made Dishes) – The custom of sending home-made dishes to relatives who live abroad–21 minutes; Proroci
(Clairvoyants) – Nada the Clairvoyant. Cursing and casting spells on Bill Clinton – 19 minutes; Žika (Zhika) – The life of a nine years old boy in the streets of Belgrade – 23 minutes; Pipači (The Touchers) – The habit of bare hand bread touching in Belgrade supermarkets – 13 minutes; Tenk (Tank) – An overnight painting of a tank exhibited in the Military Museum – 13 minutes.