SATAN PANONSKI: DOKUMENTARAC
Dir. Milorad Milinkovic, 1990.
Yugoslavia, 34 min.
In Croatian with English subtitles

SATAN PANONSKI: DOKUMENTARAC is a Serbian student film featuring the best footage of Panonski’s “Hard Blood Shock” Body Art performance, a mixture of self-mutilation, chaotic punk rock, and spoken word. Also captured are a radio interview where he outlines his dreams of creating a communal “rock n’ roll state”, and his return to the mental asylum where he spent the better part of the 80s for murder. Self-identifying as “Punk by nationality, friend by profession” we see his full tragic range of emotions that lead to comparisons with both Marina Abramovic and GG Allin. If Panonski was Yugoslavia’s GG, then this is their HATED. Like his albums and the myths of Panonski’s life and death, it has up until now only circulated underground on VHS tapes traded at flea markets across Eastern Europe, and has likely never before been screened in the United States. Translated by Bojan Cizmic.