MILANA VUJKOV
Writer, artist, independent film scholar, researching the psychology of art and creativity, cinema and spectatorship, film as therapy, narrative immersion, the female gaze, archetypal enchantment, mythopoesis and mass media, consciousness and culture. Interested in the oracular nature of narration, I fuse poetic art and alchemical storytelling, creating in various media — incorporating elements of fairytales, psychogeography, transrealism, divinatory techniques, magical lore, experimental cinema, visual anthropology, art therapy. Graduated in Psychology (BA with Hons), University of Novi Sad. MA in History of Film & Visual Media, Birkbeck, University of London. Worked in UK media/entertainment industry. Author at Poets, Mavericks & Prophets and Lola On Film. Host of Lola & The Poets, a storytelling podcast exploring diverse ways the mystical and the mundane intertwine. Literary translator. Running my own art business. Tomatometer-Approved Critic. Serbia-UK. To get in touch, please e-mail me at milana@lolaonfilm.com
DEDICATED TO ANIMA MUNDI
Illuminating cinema’s place in society, as well as in our individual psychology. Reviews, theory, commentary.
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FEATUREd NOTES
Delphi Oracle
Poets, Mavericks & Prophets takes its first alchemical journey at the sacred site of Delphi — the navel of the world. A guided oracular divination.
Art Manifesto
Lightly edited art manifesto (2008), on art, illusion & the nature of prophecy. Like water, words take on new forms, but their structure remains.
Upon The Ocean Floor
On the brief return of Saturn and Neptune into Pisces — structures collapsing, collective dreams dissolving, cycles closing, our sense of individual agency restored.
lola & The poets podcast — latest
Fine Art and Esoterica, with Ewoud van Rijn – Lola & The Poets
ORACLE DECKS
Poets, Mavericks & Prophets ORACLE DECKS are a selection of 88 out of the hundreds of ephemeral impressions I scribbled in the moments when the Self & the Anima mundi aligned. There are two versions — the Original Edition and the Colour Edition. Sales will be opening soon. MORE INFO
FEATURED POEMS
Netherland Empire
I come from the marshes, the swamplands, fish swam around my webbed feet, swans sang hymns of the world below; storks nourished my tender mind and whispered the…
The Void
It is not so damaging, not really painful, to live without the ones you love. When you choose to, at the right time, on the spaceless hour, you…
FEATURED STORies
The Fish Lady
A fishmonger encounters salvation.
The fish were terrified. Georgina’s round, placid face appeared to come out of nowhere, a full moon over their…
Electric Locusts
Woman on the verge of a fridge.
Wanda moved slowly towards the fridge in her claustrophobic little studio flat, stood in front of…
Stories
Transrealist phantasmagorical short stories, submerged in intense fantastical inner worlds, potent with chaos and synchronicity.
Shop
A little alchemical shop of stories, told in a variety of materials and manifestations, made in alignment with the celestial weather.
Alchemy
A series of texts dedicated to alchemical psychology — personal creative therapeutic work, merging the old ways & the new.
Podcast
Lola & The Poets explores personal and collective magical journeys, the ways the mystical & the mundane intertwine. Solo shows, interviews.
Poetry
A selection of my poems, old and new, plus the Art Manifesto I wrote in 2008.
Workshops
Art workshops drawing on alchemical symbolism — combining storytelling, artistic expression, psychology and play. Book them for your venue.
psychology of cinema, Art psychotherapy, psychology and alchemy, archetypal enchantment, alchemical symbolism in art, oracular narratives, female gaze, transpersonal psychology, post-jungian analysis, psychology of art, cinema therapy, spectatorship, visual anthropology, cinéma vérité, experimental cinema, film noir, psychogeography, anthropology of magic, consciousness & culture.
NOTES ON ALCHEMICAL PSYCHOLOGY
The Neptune Files
On the symbolism of the planet Neptune, psychological enchantment & the seductive labyrinths of narrative immersion.
Fragmentology
On the Winter Solstice, soul fragmentation, solar integration, and our inferior psychological function, a reminder of immense treasure illuminated in the dark.
Hidden In Plain Sight
On the lore of the traditional handcrafted Russian Doll, of stories nested within stories, astrological rising signs, and all things hidden in plain sight.
Pluto In Aquarius — The Wavemaker
On dream omens, cataclysms, fateful encounters, and the symbolism of the planet Pluto entering Aquarius.
LOLA & THE POETS PODCAST
Lola & The Poets Podcast is a virtual alchemical workshop exploring personal and collective magical journeys, the ways the mystical & the mundane are intertwined. Psychology, culture, art & alchemy. Solo shows, interviews. Out every odd Thursday.
Hosted by Milana Vujkov.
To download the shows directly, please click on audio download tab of the episode. You can also subscribe to the show on Lola & The Poets YouTube channel or follow Lola & The Poets on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Google Podcasts.
STORY SHOP
Shop
A little alchemical shop of stories, told in a variety of materials and manifestations, made in alignment with the celestial weather.
The Philosophy Of Light
My first alchemical jewellery collection, an exploration of the character of our crystal kin and their relationship with the nature of light. It consists of sixteen pieces, and is my humble offering to the Angelic Realms.
Nature Is An Engine
My second alchemical jewellery collection celebrating the sensual pleasures of life on Earth, in all their phenomenological simplicity and ontological magnificence. It consists of eight pieces. Dedicated to Motherhood.
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