Discoveries from Yugoslavia World Cinema

Short animated film. The surreal routes and roads are combined with the late-night feeling of the short and cartoony cars designs.

The film was inspired by the interesting folk custom of the time of burning tires on the railway, all in order to stop the train and get on it, given that there was no real station and the train did not even stop.

Short by N. Stojanović.

Experimental short.

The guest of the evening has arrived, let the nightmare begin.

The arrival of partisan troops in Ljubljana in 1945 and manifestations that accompanied this event.

Dance movie by Maja Bezjak.

The arrival of the first tourists brought unrest among the residents of the small, melancholic Dalmatian town. Some of them were tempted by the possibility of easy earnings, but besides mutual disputes, tourism also brought them encounters with people they were not accustomed to.

Documentary about a mental institution for children and youth in Veternik.

An animated short film based on the poem Barbara by Jacques Prevert about the effects of war on humanity.

A portrait of Serbian folk singer Pavle Stefanović (1928-2009).

Umkehr Film Material. Shot on Bolex H16 camera. Three Expositions inside camera. Drago Doppler film developer. Coloured with Pantone Markers. Sound originally recorded on Tascam 4 channel cassete recorder. Magnetophone system used separately during film projection. Sound created with Bass Guitar and effect processor Boss.

The Catholic Eucharistic Congress held in Ljubljana in June 1935, with the Papal Legate, Cardinal August Hlond of Poznan, as guest of of honour, and a mass held in the new Central Stadium designed by Joze Plecnik.

The revolution of things we use every day that one day stop serving its purposes. The lamp won’t shine anymore; the knife won’t cut. After we realize what’s going on, we change our attitude and begin to appreciate them more. This is the end of the revolution.

Azra is a smelter by occupation and surname (Livac – smelter), one of the few in the male-dominated profession. But she does not aspire to identify with her male counterparts, and despite the burden of hard work, Azra is open to the new love challenges.

A teacher who wanted to become a ballerina came from Skopje to a remote village. She teaches physical education at school and in her free time she gives the girls ballet lessons. Girls created the ballet equipment themselves and are learning the first ballet steps to the sound of the old “La Paloma” record

Professor Balthazar goes on vacation to the South Sea where his friend Hannibal is a lighthouse keeper. Hannibal loves ice cream, difficult enough to find there. His request for transfer is denied until he can arrange a replacement: Johan the yodeler from the Alps.

A sports journalist engages in a romantic rivalry with a boxing champion.

Macedonian TV drama.

The life energy, which guides man through life, is metaphorically represented through a hand. With the end of the life of the hand, the human dies.

An educational film about tuberculosis, produced by the School of Public Health "Andrija Štampar".

We begin with a fragmented portrait of Činča, between the stories she tells and the thoughts of those surrounding her. In The Head, a girl is confronted with the possibility of dying. Intermezzo focusses on the moments of abstraction amid the hustle and bustle of a city. In Our Stock Exchange, unemployed people seek work. Second Floor, Basement shows us a hospital where only two floors separate birth and death.

Location: a lonely house, crowded with everyday things and one man. Objects live their lives; they rejoice harmlessly, they love, they suffer, but above all they enjoy their own liberation from the chains of objectivity, from the restraint of functionality. They childishly surrender to the frenzy of action, to the motion of movement. New beings, mutants of civilization. Objects seen differently.

A boisterously entertaining cartoon demonstrating that in the war between the sexes, nothing is as it first appears.

Inside a rug-weaving workshop, women’s hands move in precise rhythms as the clatter of shuttles and the plucking of threads form an evolving soundscape. Gradually, labor becomes music, culminating in harp tones perfectly synchronized with the weavers’ fingers.

A short film about tigers in a zoo.

How can one film nothing, how to depict infinity in a film? A camera pointed towards the sky registers one such attempt. The infinite sky in the frame is seen precisely that way – like nothing, a film stripe worn out, empty surface, 0 (zero). The hand holding the camera is trying to keep the slide in the same motionless position. At one point, the camera slightly moves to the left out of fatigue. A roof with a chimney appears in the bottom left hand corner – the only part of the scene which inadvertently reveals the attempt and the wish – how to film nothing.

Zagreb as seen through the reflections of shop windows.

During the NATO bombing police finds a truck full of corpses in Lake Djerdap, Serbia.

As every other small nation, the Slovenians are proud of what they are. Of course, they love, too. Presenting how this is done in their country under the Alps.

Nostalgic farewell of the old Ljubljana market place. New self-service stores will need time to adjust and gain the genuineness and directness of shopping on the market place.

A 8mm experimental short.

A pop musical featuring singer Oliver Mandic who, after being dumped by girlfriend, makes a drastic move which takes him to Wonderland. While experiencing unusual situations and meeting interesting characters, he establishes a new relationship with a girl who takes him back to reality.

The necessity of progress and the strength of nostalgia.

The life of people from the delta of Neretva and their struggle for the land. The attempts of the community to help them in the transformation of the swamps into useful land.

Film follows pupils from a village in their long and arduous voyage to school.

A film by the founder of the Kinoklub Zagreb that shows a woman learning how to make her own film.

In Slavonia in the 1970ies it was still common practice to send old people to a decrepit house, usually on the edge of a forest, where they'd be left waiting for death. This is a document about one such wait for death, of an 86-year-old farmer Antun Babić from the Slavonian village Babina Greda.

A character with an overactive imagination witnesses strange events. Reality or fiction? Dive into the worrying universe of film noir.

The collage of everyday impressions of social modernization; mixed cultures of old and new mediums, traditions and folklore…

Educational film that deals with proper conduct of army officers.

Instead of a romantic evening, a woman is greeted by a home that has to be cleaned up.

A 16mm amateur film.

Short silent film.

Wife of a doctor, who's busy with his work over the top, lets herself to adventure. Much effort is needed to overcome "little" argues and to find the way of understanding and respect.

Experimental 8mm film.

A couple of lovers in a passionate embrace. Camera panning back, discloses a third person, a policeman, who gets himself involved in the action.

An interesting, seemingly plotless fast-paced animation, consisting of a line of objects transforming and melting one into another to a punchy jazz soundtrack.

Experimental short film.

16mm short that shows rhytmic motions of reflections spreading across sea waves, set to jazz tune.

The artist is balancing a video-camera on a tripod the top of which is poised in the palm of his hand. The lens of the camera is directed downwards so that it acts the part of witness and hostage of the action at the same time. Although the camera, together with the hand holding it, is keeping moving, it is seemingly staying still, and the floor the author is standing on appears to be sliding away. The video lasts as long as the artist retains the control over the equilibrium of the camera.

Produced at the Motovun Video Meeting in Croatia, 1989. Screened in retrospective at Alternative Film/Video Belgrade Festival 2014.

Produced at the Motovun Video Meeting in Croatia, 1989. Screened in retrospective at Alternative Film/Video Belgrade Festival 2014.

Produced at International Video Colony Ohrid, Macedonia 1989. Screened in retrospective at Alternative Film/Video Belgrade Festival 2014.

Documentary on the occasion of 30 years anniversary of Pančevo refinery.

The fauna of the megalopolis, the jungle of the supermarket, the bedlam of brothels and bars, the effect of the bars in the fog, the swaying ears of corn, the swaying of men hanging from the gallows, the ripple of water – seen by the eye of the animator…

A short film which documents a 24 hour period in the city of Belgrade, Yugoslavia.

A documentary about the farm where the best Yugoslav butter was once made.