Ralitza Petrova – By The Grace Of God

Ralitza Petrova’s By The Grace Of God, follows the tragic odyssey of the character Jrgen, whose attempt to make contact with his imagined mother, the Queen of England, leads him to a sense of personal crisis, of aporia. Petrova’s film portrays Jrgen as a tormented outsider, ill at ease with the travails of contemporary life, who is destined to be ‘a man out of time’, a nobody searching for his illuminated heroes. Ralitza Petrova recently exhibited work at the Cannes International Film Festival, the Berlin Film Festival, Festival Signes de Nuit, Paris and at the Rio International Film Festival. She was born in Bulgaria and lives and works in London. DVD featurette includes a specially commissioned interview with Ralitza Petrova at Gordon Shrigley’s studio in London with Elena Crippa and Cally Spooner. Filmarmalade First Edition of 50 copies A series of DVD releases featuring a selection of contemporary artists’ film and video works selected by Gordon Shrigley.