Rental fee: $12Discounted fee for BAMPFA members: $8Members: 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, 19633 mins, Silent, Color, 16mm transferred to digitalFrom Croatian Film Association, Cinéclub Zagreb The Journey(Putovanje)Bojana Vujanović, Yugoslavia, 19722 mins, Color, 16mm transferred to digitalFrom Academic Film Center, Belgrade, Courtesy Bojana Vujanović City in the Shop Window(Grad u izlogu)Tatjana Ivančić, Yugoslavia, 19695 mins, Color, Super 8 transfered to digitalFrom Cinéclub Zagreb Don’t Ask Where We Are Going(Kuda idemo ne pitajte)Tomislav Gotovac, Yugoslavia, 196611 mins, B&amp;W, 16mm transferred to digitalFrom Croatian Film Association, Courtesy Sarah Gotovac, Tomislav Gotovac Institute, Zagreb Some Information(Nekaj informacij)Ana Nuša Dragan, Yugoslavia, 19682 mins, Silent, B&amp;W, 8mm transfered to digitalFrom Marinko Sudac Collection Penelope 77(Penelopa 77)Biljana Belić, Dragiša Krstić, Yugoslavia, 19777 mins, Color, Super 8 transfered to digitalFrom Nikola Krstić How We Cut Up and Flipped Rambo(Kako smo isekli Ramba—i okrenuli ga naopako)Miroslav Bata Petrović, Miloš Savić, Yugoslavia, 198814 mins, Color, Three-projector Super 8mm transferred to digitalFrom Amateur Photo and Film Avant-Garde, Belgrade, Courtesy Miroslav Bata Petrović, Miloš Savić Erna (incomplete)Erna Banovac, Yugoslavia, 19633 mins, B&amp;W, 8mm transfered to digitalFrom Cinéclub Beograd Self-Portrait at the Graveyard(Autoportret na groblju)Slobodan Šijan, Yugoslavia, 19703 mins, Silent, Color, 8mm transfered to digitalFrom Slobodan Šijan Diary Films (excerpt)Vukica Đjilas, Yugoslavia, 1970–1990s10 mins, Color, Super 8 transfered to digitalFrom Academic Film Center, Belgrade 0Dubravka Rakoci, Yugoslavia, 19783 mins, Color, Super 8 transfered to digitalFrom 25FPS, Courtesy Dubravka Rakoci

Portraits and the Sky: Yugoslav Experimental Films, 1960s–1990s

This selection of Yugoslav short films—including some extremely rare works—forms a gallery of experimental cinematic portraits, framed by two minimalist landscape films.

A live conversation recorded on October 28, 2020 with program curators Petra Belc, who holds a doctoral degree in film studies and is pursuing independent research on Yugoslav experimental cinema, and Pavle Levi, a professor of film studies at Stanford and author of the recent books&nbsp;Jolted Images: Unbound Analytic&nbsp;and&nbsp;Cinema by Other Means.

Portraits and the Sky: Yugoslav Experimental Films, 1960s–1990s Livestream Conversation

A live conversation recorded on October 28, 2020 with program curators Petra Belc, who holds a doctoral degree in film studies and is pursuing independent research on Yugoslav experimental cinema, and Pavle Levi, a professor of film studies at Stanford and author of the recent books Jolted Images: Unbound Analytic and Cinema by Other Means.

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