Wild Pear Arts

Wild Pear/Divlja Kruška is an arts organisation centred on visual and media projects inspired by anthropological research in the Balkans and Southern Europe.

The team behind Divlja Kruška/Wild Pear – directors Alesandra Tatić and Eluned Zoe Aiano, and producer Greta Rauleac – came together with the shared goal of visualizing underrepresented perspectives artistically and engagingly, with a focus on the Balkan region. As each of us has a background in social research, we are committed to ethics and cultural sensitivity and aspire to bring together the best of creative documentary practice and social research.

Our patron saint is Sveta Petka/Paraschiva, and our spirit animal is the peacock.

Projects

We began making films together informally in 2015, on what we thought would be a short project but which ended up as the beginning of our feature documentary Flotacija and our love affair with Eastern Serbia.

In 2017, we won London Short Film Festival’s “With Teeth” commission for experimental projects, resulting in the short Imam pesmu da vam pevam/I Have a Song to Sing You, responding to found ethnographic footage of a Vlach woman who used to fall into trance to speak to the dead. The film was screened at 45+ international festivals.

In 2019, we produced the video piece Skywalker for the Digital Diaspora exhibition held jointly between the UK and Sweden.

Our 2021 short documentary Marija + Toma won the Gran Prix ¨Dragoslav Antonijević¨ at Belgrade´s International Ethnographic Film Festival.

We currently have one project in development – Ajfelice – a series of short documentaries on the topic of architectural aesthetics among migrant worker communities in Serbia. We also have social impact plans that exceed the scope of traditional film distribution, and we’re always looking to join forces with similar minded organisations and people. Feel free to contact us for a future collaboration!

Our Team

Alesandra Tatić is a post-Yugoslav visual anthropologist and feminist advocate, dedicated to supporting the women’s labor movement. Her work focuses on power dynamics and consensus organizing within minority communities, particularly in migration and border regimes. She co-founded the Wild Pear Arts collective and has co-authored several acclaimed short documentaries. Their debut feature, FLOTACIJA (2023), is currently in distribution and has won awards such as Best First Film at the Festival Jean Rouch, the Grand Prix at Martovski, and the EASA Mantas Kvedaravičius Film Award. It has been acquired for TV broadcast by Al Jazeera Balkans and Radio Television Serbia. Alesandra’s current project is a feature documentary on the ERC-funded FOODCIRCUITS project, focusing on food workers across seven countries.

Eluned Zoe Aiano is a filmmaker, editor and translator with a background in Visual Anthropology whose work is generally centred on Central/Eastern Europe. Her most recent short, All Her Dying Lovers, an animated documentary made in collaboration with Anna Benner, premiered at Hot Docs and has been published on the New York Times Op Docs section. She attended IFDA Academy 2022. She was selected for the Wapping Artist Residency in Berlin and the Pépinières Européennes de Création residency in Quebec. She is currently working on her first feature documentary in Serbia. She also writes about film and is a regular contributor to the East European Film Bulletin.

Greta Rauleac is a Romanian/Italian documentary producer and researcher specialized in Visual Anthropology. A PhD candidate in Sociology and Social Anthropology at Central European University (Vienna), her research interests range between popular culture, resistance practices, urban life in the Mediterrenean basin, and always privilege a visual dimension.

Contact

Email: info@wildpeararts.com