The Bride           2024

film (color, stereo, 00:43:19)

Camera: Nadja Kracunovic, Rodrigue Saad
Editing: Nadja Kracunovic
Starring: Ivana (ex. Kracunovic) Maricic, Dejan Maricic, Slavica Vasic, Max Schink

Decisions to marry, divorce, or remarry are shaped by a range of factors—legal, social, emotional, economic, political, practical, and romantic. For some of these reasons, in 2024, the artist marries a person of a different nationality, while her mother remarries and changes the surname inherited from her previous husband—after 30 years. This shared act of both literally and symbolically abandoning their last name—the only inheritance from the artist’s biological father—becomes a radical gesture. It opens a space for deep introspection into their position navigating multiple contexts.

Here, marriage becomes more than a personal commitment; it transforms into an intergenerational inquiry. Through it, the artist explores inherited desires, societal expectations, and the intricate bureaucratic structures that surround the institution of marriage and a female-only nuclear family.