Žana Marović

Žana Marović (born in Sarajevo, 1973) is a film editor based in Johannesburg and a member of the South African Guild of Editors. She studied science before switching to video editing. In South Africa, Marović began her career as an assistant 
editor and colorist working with the wildlife filmmakers and National Geographic Explorers-in-Residence Dereck and Beverly Joubert on their documentary projects. Since 2011, she became part of the creative team working with William Kentridge as 
an assistant editor, then editor, compositor, and projection designer on his theater productions and video installations, including The Refusal of Time; O Sentimental Machine; Notes Towards a Model Opera; Second-Hand Reading; operas Lulu and Wozzeck; the internationally acclaimed multimedia work The Head & the Load; chamber opera Waiting for the Sibyl commissioned by the Teatro Dell’Opera di Roma; Oh To Believe in Another World, a film commissioned by the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra to accompany Shostakovich’s 10th Symphony; Self-Portrait as a Coffee-Pot, the nine-part episodic series focused on Kentridge’s studio practice; and, most recently, The Great Yes, The Great No.