Petek is very versatile and is experimenting with all possible formats, the Zagreb film school of animation-influenced parts, the quasi SF childish games, the color splashes, the psychedelic timbres, the pop art/ collage experiments and a swirl of other 60s gestures.
Discoveries from Yugoslavia World Cinema
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- 0.0 1967 • Yugoslavia
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Milan leaves his home and joins the "youth brigade", a group of young people who worked on a railway track. Tragedy strikes when Milan is injured operating one of the mechanical drills that make the building of tunnels possible. But his dedication is greater than his pain, and so he rushes back to the building site instead of staying in the hospital so that he can help the brigade meet the deadline for the completion of the tunnel.
Life Is Ours
10.0 1948 • Yugoslavia -
Milan Šamec was a member of conservative stream in the Zagreb Cine Club, the one that denied and mocked the “anti-film”. Termites were made as an absurd demonstration that anyone can make an experimental film. He took the film, exposed it unevenly, and called the dance of visual stains that resulted — termites, because that’s what they reminded him of.
Termites
3.0 1963 • Yugoslavia -
A one-frame long experimental short film from Yugoslavia.
The First Photo of Mine Ever Taken
5.0 1972 • Yugoslavia -
Experimental short film from Yugoslavia.
The Raven
3.0 1973 • Yugoslavia -
A young woman and man are riding bikes through nature, having a good time. When she speeds up, he loses her, and after a while he stumbles across her bike without any trace of her. He stumbles through the forest looking for her, imagining how she kisses him. No dialogue, just "audio credits" instead of titles, saying the name of the film, actors and director.
The Game of Love
0.0 1967 • Yugoslavia -
A distressed young woman, possibly on the run is surrounded by nothing but barren landscapes of forests and fields. As she progresses to an indiscernible denouement, the film contorts shape into a circular series of pulsating images that touches on the horror and the metaphysical.
Hands of Purple Distances
6.0 1962 • Yugoslavia -
The film is dedicated to St. George's Day, one of the greatest religious holidays whose celebration has its genesis in spring, the awakening of nature and the renewal of life. On the slopes of Skopska Crna Gora lies the village of Bulachani, where St. George's Day customs are cherished to this day.
St. George's Day Customs from Skopje
0.0 1956 • Yugoslavia -
A documentary about president Tito's return to the country and the welcome party in Gevgelija, Negotino and Skopje.
President Tito’s Return to The Country
0.0 1959 • Yugoslavia -
A documentary that shows a paralyzed man who, despite massive physical limitations, is able to perform his work as a guardian of the village's flock of sheep.
The Shepherd and His Cart
0.0 1982 • Yugoslavia -
A trailer for Animafest Zagreb 1988.
Animafest Zagreb 1988
0.0 1988 • Yugoslavia -
The lone scarecrow has a great desire to befriend birds, but they ignore him. His courage at a certain point completely changed the bird's perspective.
Scarecrow
8.0 1957 • Yugoslavia -
Several people make an apartment so they can all live together in it, but when the apartment is ready, the system breaks down around a simple toilet.
The Apartment
0.0 1987 • Yugoslavia -
A documentary showing the historical sights and beauties of Ohrid Lake and the promotion of tourism in this region.
Ohrid
0.0 1954 • Yugoslavia -
A short documentary showing the community's concern for the upbringing, entertainment, and recreation of its youngest members.
A Joyful Childhood
0.0 1950 • Yugoslavia -
A documentary film showing the members of "Partizan" - a physical education organization - performing exercises as well as welcoming and sending off the Tito Relay.
Partizan
0.0 1953 • Yugoslavia -
In the mountains of Macedonia, members of the Karakachani tribe still live today. They have been here for several centuries. And ever since they can remember, they have been herders. In fact, they are among the last nomadic herders in Europe. Many things have changed around them, and even today, seemingly, they continue the same life...
The Last Nomads
8.0 1964 • Yugoslavia -
Short animated film.
The False Canary
8.0 1958 • Yugoslavia -
Documentary about painter Petar Dobrovic.
Petar Dobrovic
6.0 1957 • Yugoslavia -
A "Kaladont" toothpaste commercial.
All for a Smile
6.6 1926 • Yugoslavia -
A competitive game of one-upsmanship between two men, one small and one tall.
Little & Big
0.0 1966 • Yugoslavia -
The film describes the Macedonian wedding customs during the religious holiday St. Peter's Day (Petrovden) in the Macedonian village of Galichnik and its surroundings. One can see the preparations for the wedding, as well as all the customs till the young couple's first wedding night.
The Galichnik Wedding
5.0 1955 • Yugoslavia -
"Victory Under the Sun" chronicles the making of Laibach's "Opus Dei" album.
Laibach: Victory Under the Sun
6.8 1988 • Yugoslavia -
Somebody steals Johhny’s gold in the premises of Kino klub Split. He just says: Screw me for letting myself be brought to this amateur club!
Dear Johnny, Somebody Stole Your Gold!
0.0 1966 • Yugoslavia -
With the animation of objects, or rather pantomime movements of the hands, five themes are depicted in five films: love, corruption, oratory, social problems, and bringing people together.
Five Films of a Hand
0.0 1977 • Yugoslavia -
A short documentary.
Road
0.0 1982 • Yugoslavia -
In the constant and cruel struggle of man to master nature, he will begin by destroying his greatest ally. An authentic story about a lesser-known profession that begins where the asphalt ends. In a mountainous setting, decorated with a variety of plants and home to numerous insects, birds and animals, man comes to bring unrest to the long-tamed bowels of the earth and disturbs the primordial peace of nature with the roar of explosives and the roar of machines.
Miners
0.0 1978 • Yugoslavia -
Short experimental 8mm film.
Let It Be
0.0 1971 • Yugoslavia -
Wedding in Pirot, 1937. Najdan Mladenovic from Pirot and Desanka Cicanovic from Leskovac got married in Pirot on 21st November 1937. Groom was the son of a distinguished merchant, founder and constructor of the factory Tigar and hydroelectric power plant Temac, Dimitrije Mladenovic – Mita Gaga. Bride and groom leave for the wedding, general merriment and folk dancing after the wedding, breaking of bread for happiness of bride and groom, leaving for lunch, bride and groom with their families and cousins.
Wedding in Pirot
0.0 1937 • Yugoslavia -
Short documentary.
Juventus
10.0 1970 • Yugoslavia -
Short fiction film about a practical joke played on an unsuspecting victim, on a summer day in Split.
Very Funny
9.0 1973 • Yugoslavia -
Short film.
Ice
7.0 1972 • Yugoslavia -
Documentary about a Hungarian police sergeant who saved people of village Kovilj during the 1942 raid.
Dunafalvi March
0.0 1990 • Yugoslavia -
Short fragment.
Andrija Štampar School of Public Health
0.0 1928 • Yugoslavia -
Maxi Cat's strange spaghetti.
Maxi Cat: The Lunch
0.0 1973 • Yugoslavia -
Sisyphus-esque life of a dung beetle.
Dung Beetles
7.3 1982 • Yugoslavia -
Macedonian TV drama.
Clinch
0.0 1975 • Yugoslavia -
A man enters a bar. А woman is sitting at the counter next to him, he approaches her, drinking the glasses arranged next to her, and when he comes to her, he drinks the last one and falls to the ground drunk.
Love Story
0.0 1982 • Yugoslavia -
Legendary Yugoslav progressive rock band Smak on their American tour.
Smak in America
0.0 1976 • Yugoslavia -
Attracted by the roar, hinds come to gather around their leader. The lonely stag forces the leader into the fight for the herd. Hinds watch the fight and follow its winner when the fight is over.
The Sumik Tournament
0.0 1965 • Yugoslavia -
Compressing one idle day in the life of a young artist by rotating the camera through his room, a sort of a self-portrait of Lordan Zafranović resembles a one-shot film, its grainy photography and moody music suggesting a meditative atmosphere characteristic for Split authors of his generation.
Diary
0.0 1964 • Yugoslavia -
Old cinema creates new cinema in a new context. Stolen old images, someone’s audio track, someone else’s soundscapes – they re-create, reinventing interactions, relations and dialogue in familiar footage. Telling new stories. Transforming it back into cinema.
Mirror
0.0 1987 • Yugoslavia -
Produced at International Video Colony Ohrid, Macedonia 1989. Screened in retrospective at Alternative Film/Video Belgrade Festival 2014.
In Ohrid
0.0 1989 • Yugoslavia -
Story about a man whose environment doesn't let him live his simple life.
Passing Days
5.2 1969 • Yugoslavia -
Short documentary about the event.
Croatian Gymnasts' Day
0.0 N/A • Yugoslavia -
Just like millions of others, the man wakes up and gets up. Work awaits him. But while he gets ready, he can't help getting lost in daydreams. He pictures himself in turn as a sports champion, an opera singer, a general, an orchestra conductor, a lover - All that makes him very happy but also - very tired. Now he needs a rest. The only thing to do is to go back to bed.
The Dreamer
0.0 1961 • Yugoslavia -
A story about a soldier and a girl who met and fell in love as bearers of Tito's baton.
Like a Ballad
9.0 1964 • Yugoslavia -
Short by Makavejev.
Film About a Book
0.0 1962 • Yugoslavia -
A story about oppression and inhumane treatment of women in backward areas of the country. Woman is equal, but where the law ends, the woman's husband is the only existing law.
Where the Law Ends
9.0 1963 • Yugoslavia -
Short documentary by Krsto Škanata.
White Harvests
0.0 1958 • Yugoslavia -
A super 8mm film by Davorin Marc.
We All Go, Let's Go
0.0 1980 • Yugoslavia -
A super 8mm film by Davorin Marc.
Don't, Don't Cry
0.0 1981 • Yugoslavia -
Short documentary.
With the Camera Through Zagreb
0.0 1957 • Yugoslavia -
Short movie.
Ateks
8.0 1983 • Yugoslavia -
A vast power plant is being built on the Drina River. This river has been famous for hundreds of years old tradition of rafting. In this way timber is transported downstream to Belgrade. This is a very dangerous profession where only qualified and experienced workers survive. Work on constructing the dam connects two heroes in this story – Bogdan, one of the last rafting masters on the Drina and Dragoljub, one of the oldest explosive experts who has been building dams all over the world. This is a film story about their long lives, happy days and disappointments, about the friendship that is born in the shadow of an enormous dam.
Dragoljub and Bogdan
0.0 1982 • Yugoslavia -
A short experimental 35mm film showing beggars, hobos and other misfits.
Portraits (Passing by)
0.0 1966 • Yugoslavia -
1:10
7.0 1969 • Yugoslavia -
An unusual appointment with the doctor.
Toadstool
0.0 1973 • Yugoslavia -
A story about the loneliness, alienation, fear and nervousness of modern man.
The Day I Quit Smoking
0.0 1982 • Yugoslavia -
A short film that its creator made after seeing an electricity pylon laying on the ground in a field near Blok 45, a section of the New Belgrade suburb of Belgrade. The strangeness of the sight inspired Toholj to film it, and he intuitively saw the pylon as a giant beast or, as the film’s title suggests, the skeletal remains of an enormous dinosaur, which he captured through a series of rapidly alternating close-ups shot from a variety of angles.
Death of Metalosaurus
0.0 1989 • Yugoslavia