The Experimental Film Movement in Serbia: Years of Structure (1960s–80s)

Film as a medium of expression and film in which the structure plays the dominant role were the most widespread in the 1960s and 1970s in Belgrade. The films of Zoran Popović, Slobodan Šijan, and Ljubomir Šimunić explored diverse visual structures. Vjekoslav Nakić, Nikola Djurić, and Radoslav Vladić created films with pure structures and atmospheres. Ivan Obrenov and Bojan Jovanović, through the predominant postmodernist style of their works, again began to pose questions related to the topics of unfinished revolutions and neocolonialism. And at the beginning of the 1980s, Miroslav Bata Petrović would deal with the results of the materialist approach to film. 


HEAD-CIRCLE (GLAVA-KRUG) Zoran Popović, Yugoslavia, 1968–69, 5 mins, Color, 8mm transferred to Digital video

COMPOSITION (KOMPOZICIJA) Vjekoslav Nakić, Yugoslavia, 1970, 6 mins, B&W, 16mm transferred to Digital video

THE GARDEN OF FORKING PATHS (VRT SA STAZAMA ŠTO SE RAČVAJU) Slobodan Šijan, Yugoslavia, 1971, 4 mins, 8mm transferred to Digital video

JOURNEY (PUTOVANJE) Bojana Vujanović, Yugoslavia, 1972, 2 mins, B&W/Color, 16mm transferred to Digital video

FROM ME TO YOU (OD MENE DO TEBE) Mirko Avramović, Miodrag Tarana, Yugoslavia, 1972, 4 mins, B&W, 8mm transferred to Digital video

VOWELS (SAMOGLASNICI) Nikola Đurić, Yugoslavia, 1973, 8 mins, B&W, 16mm transferred to Digital video

GERDY, THE WICKED WITCH (GERDY, ZLOČESTA VJEŠTICA) Ljubomir Šimunić, Yugoslavia, 1973–76, 9:30 mins, Color, 8mm transferred to Digital video

EXPIRATION (IZDAH) Ivan Obrenov, Yugoslavia, 1976, 12 mins, B&W/Color, 16mm transferred to Digital video

HOUSE (KUĆA) Radoslav Vladić, Yugoslavia, 1977, 8 mins, Color, 16mm transferred to Digital video

HOLIDAY (PRAZNIK) Bojan Jovanović, Yugoslavia, 1983, 11 mins, Color, 16mm transferred to Digital video

PURE FILM: MEMENTO OF GEFF (ČISTI FILM: SEĆANJE NA GEFF) Miroslav Bata Petrović, Yugoslavia, 1984, 5 mins, B&W, 16mm transferred to Digital video

Total running time: c. 80 mins

• All films preserved or restored by the Academic Film Center, Student City Cultural Center, Belgrade, and selected by Miodrag Miša Milošević. The films are shown digitally due to the fragility and uniqueness of the original prints.