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On April 15 during our Second Art Forum, we will have the presentation of video artwork by Tanja Dabo.
On April 28 during our Third Forum of Psychiatrists, Psychologists and Social Workers we will screen a documentary on Rwandan war.
May 26 we will show "Lora", a Croatian-Serbian co-production testifying about Croatian Abu Ghraib type scandal: alleged torture, breaches of Geneva Convention, at the military baracks in Split's harbour. And also an episode from the book "Good People in Evil Times" by Svetlana Broz produced by B92 - the one about the brave Sarajevo' Taxi driver's survival through the war.
November 10: Crossroads: Films from ex-SFRJ
In the years since the bloody dissolution of what was once know as Yugoslavia, a new generation of filmmakers has emerged, casting a fresh new look on a region living in a new reality. The films included in this program were created both at home or in exile and span a variety of genres.
The Forgotten, Damir Cucic, Croatia, 2002, 34 min
Cucic's remarkable film weaves a carefully meditative and poetic view around the lives of a Croatian villages twenty remaining inhabitants. Each life is articulated around important parameters in the battle for basic human survival: only those who collect enough food and firewood will manage to survive.
The Model, Aleksandar Nedeljkovic USA/Serbia, 2003, 17 min
From a former Independent Belgrade TV Studio B investigative journalist, comes this short documentary about 83-year-old Konstantinos Dimitriadis, a Greek political emigré living in Belgrade, Serbia. In 1950, after the defeat of the Communist movement in Greece, Konstantinos, along with 50,000 other compatriots, was expelled from Greece, never to return. He found an adopted homeland in the utopia that Tito's Yugoslavia once represented for some. He has made his living for the past 23 years as an artists model.
Knez, Zvezdana Rogic, Serbia/Montenegro, 2003, 60"; loop
Byzantine Eye, Zvezdana Rogic, Serbia/Montenegro, 2004, 60"; loop
By a graduate of the Whitney Museum's Independent Study Program, Knez is a video installation exploring folklore and identity in the context of post- Balkan-war international power relations. Gypsy child-musicians go almost unnoticed as they churn out Serbian folk riffs on Knez Mihailova's Street in Belgrade. Byzantine Eye loops through centuries of depictions of the eye in Macedonian paintings.
Hotel Belgrad, Andrea Staka, Switzerland, 1998, 13 min
A couple makes love in a hotel room. She lives in Switzerland, he in Belgrade. Caught between their past and an uncertain future, they only have the present moment. This film was screened at the prestigious Sundance, Locarno and Palm Springs Festivals and is the recipient of numerous international awards.
Selections from six years of the low-fi video festival low-fi video was launched in Belgrade in 1997 to promote short films and audio-visual works, especially those based on new technologies. During the more than six years of its existence, low-fi video decisively contributed to the development of the Yugoslav short film scene. and is currently the only institution that systematically informs Yugoslav audience about trends in the international short film scene.
Selected works include:
- Welcome To My World, Aleksandar Vasiljevic & Zadruga, 2000, Serbia 0:55 min
- Everything Stopped Only Children Keep Growing, Punctum Group for Art Experiment, 2000, Serbia, 2:45 min
- The Toy, Maja Bekan, 2001, Serbia, 1:40 min
- Nineteen or Chinese Batteries, Aleksandar Vasiljevic, 2001, Serbia, 1:25 min
- They Are..., Mladi Kadrovi & Videognom, 2001, Serbia, 6:00 min
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