Discoveries from Yugoslavia World Cinema

When the war ends, everybody is trying to wash away the blood from their hands. Is this sufficient to clear also the conscience?

Viktor Rybak, author of many film reports and documentaries in the period 1923-1930, founded his own company for the production and film lab processing in 1931. This experimental fragment was created because of Rybak’s intimate amateur enthusiasm: it was made without pretensions to public display and commercial exploitation. According to Rybak, without the title and “trailer”, the film was made in cooperation with employees of his company. He also remembered the name of the cartoonist: Miroslav Modic. This is the first preserved film strip with animated drawings made in Zagreb.

Human obsession with television is presented through 17 different situations and the same number of shots.

Promulgation of the Yugoslav Republic, held in Jajce, Bosnia and Herzegovina, on November 29, 1943.

Macedonian TV drama.

A dispute about water causes dramatic consequences, and the whole story grows into a tragic metaphor for the fate of a man doomed to fight for a bare existence.

Film about the power of evil and temptation, about greed and the frailty of a friendship that leads two friends into self-destruction.

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.

One of the most pivotal Serbian bands tour Yugoslavia with the top 5 ensemble of their singers: Šemsa Suljaković, Kemal Malovčić, Mile Kitić, Dragana Mirković and Sinan Sakić.

Experimental short by Divna Jovanovic, shown at Genre Experimental Festival (GEFF) in Zagreb in 1963.

An educational film on proper hygiene and healthcare, aimed at peasant women in Yugoslavia.

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.

Maxi Cat in the episode dealing with a very special broom.

The executioner binds a prisoner at the stake. He lights a match and the prisoner spits on it and puts it out. But the fire is lit with the second match. The prisoner puts his hands together and prays for the rain. Rain begins to fall. Falling, falling, falling, and water drowned the convict — good luck, bad luck — they all come quickly.

An experimental short film.

A short film about ants and their everyday activities. The audio of the film is currently lost.

A short film composed of shots of the sea surface.

The tramp is hungry and the child has a rooster. In order to achieve his goal, to eat, the wanderer grabs the rooster from the child. But because of the child's grief, the tramp changes his mind and the child is with his friend again.

A feminist film that deals with women's service jobs through an editing structure including the job of a telephone operator.

Legendary Yugoslav progressive rock band Smak on their American tour.

Short silent film.

Documentary about the town of Celje (Slovenia) and its history.

Bosnian documentary film.

The intellectual and the sensual are combined in this essay presentation of the work of the painter Ivo Vojvodić from Dubrovnik. Through the presentation of three frequent motifs of Vojvodić's painting - the sea, reefs and letters - Berković touches upon the emigratory fate of Vojvodić's family in desire for a home and the Ragusan ideal of freedom.

A film describing the political history of Dubrovnik and the history of its architecture, painting, literature and science until the end of Republic of Ragusa.

A recording of a clock ticking for 7 minutes.

The very first Serbian animated film shows a pincer trying to find its way through labyrinth.

A documentary recording of student demonstrations and assemblies at the student campus in Ljubljana.

A lost Croatian film.

Experimental short touching the subject of class, representation and sexuality.

A recording of walls, coats, and shadows.

An amusing and didactic cartoon for children. The main actor is a capricious dot playing and dancing and creating in this way a colorful world of our little ones…

Quotes from Okakura’s The Book of Tea are a connecting tissue and the tea ceremony is a dramatic scene of juxtaposing personal and public space in the video work of Sanja Iveković and Dalibor Martinis. Opposed to the stylized and highly spiritual-meditative dimension of the Japanese ritual, the omnipresent background of its metaphorically impregnated and pseudo-narrative staging of the Croatian artists is a TV image. The order of objects and the peace of the tea drinkers is penetrated by chaos; the calm ritual is turning into a drama...

Early video-installation by Dalibor Martinis, where the artist turns the TV set into a still life and info news into "circulus vitiosus".

An experimental film with no plot. Consists mostly of static shots portraying train wagons. The word COMPOSITION in Serbian has a triple meaning here – a train composition, composition of a shot, and music composition. Regarding the third meaning, the “soundtrack” of the film is a 5 second loop that keeps repeating itself over and over again.

Story about a man whose environment doesn't let him live his simple life.

Summer noon, solstice, pilot’s love under an olive tree and when everything is at its zenith – nature and people explode.

Galactic Supermarket Presents Cosmic Rainbows is a Yugoslavian (Slovenian) Short Documentary Film. It is defined as an experimental. It was directed by OM Produkcija.

Serbian folk music and some traditional design being animated.

Documentary film about the construction of the second track of the Šamac-Sarajevo Railway in 1978.

A man interrupts his soup when he is struck by a chattering rhythm and lets his imagination drift into the world of music.

Documentary on the urban development of Zagreb.

A record of the village of Letnica in Upper Morava, Kosovo, whose miraculous Madonna numerous pilgrims of Roma, Janjevo, Albanian and Serbian origin implore for offspring.

The eternal theme "every conflict strengthens borders" is presented with the help of the animation of numerous colored balls.

Goran Massot is the author of this television drama about the “landloper of a good heart”. About a man who goes abroad, finds the wrong way and comes back to resell watches.

Neverending fights of a married couple end up with threats of suicide from both parties, since none of them wants to admit that they aren’t right.

Short documentary.

Short documentary about steel power plants in Zenica.

Celebration of the 45th anniversary of the Ilinden Uprising. The atmosphere surrounding this historical event is conveyed through documents and memories of the surviving participants.

A short documentary.

If one does not approach every problem carefully and patiently, the failure is inevitable. The view through the window that offers nothing, if one does not wait, is another story about a man who does not have the patience to study the problem in detail and calmly for which there was a real solution. Because after a hasty step, of course wrong, that same window offers a different view. The blank wall is no longer there, of course only the one who knows how to approach things studiously and who knows how to be patient and calm can see that.

The film is dedicated to the VI World Gallery of Caricatures - Skopje '74, on the theme "Stop". Several hundred caricaturists from around the world, with their satirical messages, indicate where a person should stop in order for humanity to move forward. The film uses caricatures by authors who participated in the VI World Gallery of Caricatures.

Through photographs and documents this short documentary makes a reconstruction of the large demonstrations in Veles in 1939, when thousands of people went protesting to the streets under the slogan "We are asking for bread."

Video dissects a sentence taken from a propaganda statement by a party politician. With gradual decostruction author leaves only traces of a word socialism.

A SF fairy tale put together in a form of video game. The protagonist travel trough levels. Each level is a symbol which contains cosmic powers entities to which characters are confronted with. They are imperfect creators of imperfect system who make numerous mistakes.

Produced in 1970 by Filmske Novosti, this documentary film was created to inform the domestic audience about events in Palestinian territories but also as an act of camaraderie and political support for the Palestine Liberation Organization. The film was first screened when the Federal Conference of the Socialist Alliance of Working People of Yugoslavia hosted a delegation from the Palestine Liberation Organization.

Cinéma vérité documentary inspired by the film "Chronicle of a Summer" by Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin.

Short documentary about two children lost in a puppet theater.

Short documentary.

Two cheerful friends, comedians, are looking in vain for something for breakfast in the morning. They come up with an original idea. They transform into an exhausted horse and thus manage to sneak into a mansion, which a rich woman has turned into a luxurious home for all kinds of animals as her hobby. A series of comical situations arise there due to the great attention shown to the comedians — the horse, as an animal. For example, they are served an abundance of the finest hay, which they, of course, eat, marking, etc. The climax occurs in a race between the "horse" and the farrier, who wants to shoe it and ends up being shoed himself. But their cunning is discovered and they are rudely thrown out into the street, with the knowledge that they fared better as animals than as people.