Rental fee: $12
Discounted fee for BAMPFA members: $8
Members: to receive your discount, you must log in to Eventive with the same email address you use to receive BAMPFA member communications.
Portraits are typically frontal—they put their subjects on display and invite viewers to look at them directly. By contrast, the experimental cinematic portraits and self-portraits presented in this program revel in multiplication of points of view and in decentered, even disjointed, depiction of people and places. Culled from the rich history of avant-garde filmmaking in Yugoslavia (1945–1991), diverse in aim, approach, and aesthetic sensibility, these works—some of which are extremely rare—showcase the unique power of cinema to probe the relationship between intimacy and exteriority as they creatively meander between observation and imagination; the face, the mind, and the body; the self and its abandonment. Bringing together established artists and lesser-known cine-amateurs, while foregrounding women filmmakers’ paramount though largely underappreciated contributions to Yugoslavia’s vibrant experimental scene, this on-screen portrait gallery is framed by two minimalist landscape films. The sky is the limit.
—Petra Belc and Pavle Levi
Films in this program:
K3 or Clear Sky Without a Cloud
(K3 ili Čisto nebo bez oblaka)
Mihovil Pansini, Yugoslavia, 1963
3 mins, Silent, Color, 16mm transferred to digital
From Croatian Film Association, Cinéclub Zagreb
The Journey
(Putovanje)
Bojana Vujanović, Yugoslavia, 1972
2 mins, Color, 16mm transferred to digital
From Academic Film Center, Belgrade, Courtesy Bojana Vujanović
City in the Shop Window
(Grad u izlogu)
Tatjana Ivančić, Yugoslavia, 1969
5 mins, Color, Super 8 transfered to digital
From Cinéclub Zagreb
Don’t Ask Where We Are Going
(Kuda idemo ne pitajte)
Tomislav Gotovac, Yugoslavia, 1966
11 mins, B&W, 16mm transferred to digital
From Croatian Film Association, Courtesy Sarah Gotovac, Tomislav Gotovac Institute, Zagreb
Some Information
(Nekaj informacij)
Ana Nuša Dragan, Yugoslavia, 1968
2 mins, Silent, B&W, 8mm transfered to digital
From Marinko Sudac Collection
Penelope 77
(Penelopa 77)
Biljana Belić, Dragiša Krstić, Yugoslavia, 1977
7 mins, Color, Super 8 transfered to digital
From Nikola Krstić
How We Cut Up and Flipped Rambo
(Kako smo isekli Ramba—i okrenuli ga naopako)
Miroslav Bata Petrović, Miloš Savić, Yugoslavia, 1988
14 mins, Color, Three-projector Super 8mm transferred to digital
From Amateur Photo and Film Avant-Garde, Belgrade, Courtesy Miroslav Bata Petrović, Miloš Savić
Erna (incomplete)
Erna Banovac, Yugoslavia, 1963
3 mins, B&W, 8mm transfered to digital
From Cinéclub Beograd
Self-Portrait at the Graveyard
(Autoportret na groblju)
Slobodan Šijan, Yugoslavia, 1970
3 mins, Silent, Color, 8mm transfered to digital
From Slobodan Šijan
Diary Films (excerpt)
Vukica Đjilas, Yugoslavia, 1970–1990s
10 mins, Color, Super 8 transfered to digital
From Academic Film Center, Belgrade
0
Dubravka Rakoci, Yugoslavia, 1978
3 mins, Color, Super 8 transfered to digital
From 25FPS, Courtesy Dubravka Rakoci
- Runtime65 minutes
Rental fee: $12
Discounted fee for BAMPFA members: $8
Members: to receive your discount, you must log in to Eventive with the same email address you use to receive BAMPFA member communications.
Portraits are typically frontal—they put their subjects on display and invite viewers to look at them directly. By contrast, the experimental cinematic portraits and self-portraits presented in this program revel in multiplication of points of view and in decentered, even disjointed, depiction of people and places. Culled from the rich history of avant-garde filmmaking in Yugoslavia (1945–1991), diverse in aim, approach, and aesthetic sensibility, these works—some of which are extremely rare—showcase the unique power of cinema to probe the relationship between intimacy and exteriority as they creatively meander between observation and imagination; the face, the mind, and the body; the self and its abandonment. Bringing together established artists and lesser-known cine-amateurs, while foregrounding women filmmakers’ paramount though largely underappreciated contributions to Yugoslavia’s vibrant experimental scene, this on-screen portrait gallery is framed by two minimalist landscape films. The sky is the limit.
—Petra Belc and Pavle Levi
Films in this program:
K3 or Clear Sky Without a Cloud
(K3 ili Čisto nebo bez oblaka)
Mihovil Pansini, Yugoslavia, 1963
3 mins, Silent, Color, 16mm transferred to digital
From Croatian Film Association, Cinéclub Zagreb
The Journey
(Putovanje)
Bojana Vujanović, Yugoslavia, 1972
2 mins, Color, 16mm transferred to digital
From Academic Film Center, Belgrade, Courtesy Bojana Vujanović
City in the Shop Window
(Grad u izlogu)
Tatjana Ivančić, Yugoslavia, 1969
5 mins, Color, Super 8 transfered to digital
From Cinéclub Zagreb
Don’t Ask Where We Are Going
(Kuda idemo ne pitajte)
Tomislav Gotovac, Yugoslavia, 1966
11 mins, B&W, 16mm transferred to digital
From Croatian Film Association, Courtesy Sarah Gotovac, Tomislav Gotovac Institute, Zagreb
Some Information
(Nekaj informacij)
Ana Nuša Dragan, Yugoslavia, 1968
2 mins, Silent, B&W, 8mm transfered to digital
From Marinko Sudac Collection
Penelope 77
(Penelopa 77)
Biljana Belić, Dragiša Krstić, Yugoslavia, 1977
7 mins, Color, Super 8 transfered to digital
From Nikola Krstić
How We Cut Up and Flipped Rambo
(Kako smo isekli Ramba—i okrenuli ga naopako)
Miroslav Bata Petrović, Miloš Savić, Yugoslavia, 1988
14 mins, Color, Three-projector Super 8mm transferred to digital
From Amateur Photo and Film Avant-Garde, Belgrade, Courtesy Miroslav Bata Petrović, Miloš Savić
Erna (incomplete)
Erna Banovac, Yugoslavia, 1963
3 mins, B&W, 8mm transfered to digital
From Cinéclub Beograd
Self-Portrait at the Graveyard
(Autoportret na groblju)
Slobodan Šijan, Yugoslavia, 1970
3 mins, Silent, Color, 8mm transfered to digital
From Slobodan Šijan
Diary Films (excerpt)
Vukica Đjilas, Yugoslavia, 1970–1990s
10 mins, Color, Super 8 transfered to digital
From Academic Film Center, Belgrade
0
Dubravka Rakoci, Yugoslavia, 1978
3 mins, Color, Super 8 transfered to digital
From 25FPS, Courtesy Dubravka Rakoci
- Runtime65 minutes