Participants: Srđan Savić, magazine editor and Niš Culture Center director; Dejan Dabić, initiator and the magazine’s editorial board member, Martovski Festival Art Director

A periodical for scholars and film enthusiasts and all those interested in the relationship between film and other arts and media. The first issue appeared at the end of 2009. Published twice a year, each issue is focused on the most current events in the world of film art. It consists of several permanent sections, thematic units focused on some of the most important issues in the domains of film criticism, history and theory: Zooming In brings texts dedicated to the most diverse cinematographic topics, i.e. phenomena in film history and theory, sociology and psychology of film and film aesthetics; Close-up consists of interviews with well-known contemporary filmmakers and filmologists; Angle Shots presents critical reviews of the most current films from Serbia and the world, with focus on awarded works at festivals and by national academies; Dolly brings serious analytical reports from film festivals in national, regional and global contexts; Cine-writing presents the latest edition in the field of film literature in Serbia and the world. The contributors are the most eminent film critics from Serbia and the surrounding countries.

The Festival will promote issue no. 16/17: REVIEW OF THE DOCUMENTARY FILM TREATMENT IN THE FILM MAGAZINE FILAŽ.

Srđan Savić (Niš, 1973)

Obtained his BA in the Study Group for Serbian Language and Literature from the Faculty of Philosophy. Author of the literary-film study Onegin (Niš Culture Center, 2007). Initiator and editor of the film edition Kinogram at the Niš Cultural Publishing House, the Omnibus  edition, as well as the Pantheon edition). With D. Dabić, co-authored the publication Fifty Years – A Guide to Film Meetings in Niš (1966-2015). His texts about cinema are represented in the anthology Light from the Fortress – Niš Film Critics’ Circle (YU film today 92/93) by S. Franić. Published texts on film and literature in Filaž, YU film danas, Novi filmograf, Kinoteka, Gradina, Politika, Književna reč, Presing, Niški analitičar, Narodne novine, Slovo… He started the Niš International Colony of Film Critics. He is the director of the Festival of Acting Achievements in Niš.

Attachments area

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1.4.2022. / 18h // Dom omladine Beograda

Participants

Veljko Krulčić,  journalist, publisher and film publicist;

Dejan Dabić, Martovski Festival Art Director

The book is about the making of the last film by the Croatian Oscar winner and world-renowned filmmaker, Dušan Vukotić,  Welcome to the Planet Earth, a short animated-fiction-puppet film. Pre-production began in the spring of 1990, and the film was completed in late 1993. It premiered in 1994 at the Animafest. After that screening, the film disappeared. It was not shown anywhere else, had no festival life, no one wrote about it… despite being a film where Vukotić, in his full creative force, managed to construct his fantastic universe. In this book, thirteen critics and aestheticians of animation write about this film’s qualities and possible shortcomings. The book also brings the complete shooting script and an introduction with a timeline of the origin of this testamentary film by Dušan Vukotić against the backdrop of war…

Veljko Krulčić (1962)

Author of more than two thousand bibliographic units on Croatian and Yugoslav film and cinematography. Founder and editor-in-chief of the monthly film magazine Hollywood (published from 1995 to 2006). Edited and/or compiled more than 20 books on film. He had the privilege and honour to cooperate occasionally, and even more to spend time with Dušan Vukotić. In 2013, together with Lila Vukotić, he established an association that studies Vukotić’s life and work. He published three books about Vukotić and organized author’s exhibitions in Pula, Banja Luka and Belgrade.

Film screening

Welcome to the Planet Earth

1993/1994. / 13’

Written (based on a story by Bojan Meserko), drawn, animated and directed by

Dušan Vukotić

Cast

Angel Palašev, Veronika Durbešić

Narrator

Krunoslav šarić

Executive production

Nikola Babić

Production company

Urania film, Zagreb

An animated SF parody about the so-called close encounter. A married couple, Matilda and Ignac, living in the countryside meet the aliens and their strange spacecraft…

Vukotić: Is our human nature at all capable and ready for that close encounter?!

Serbian premiere

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Participants

Miroljub Stojanović, Film Center Serbia publishing editor; Ivana Kronja, PhD, filmologist, the book’s author; Bojan Jovanović, PhD, ethnologist, writer, filmmaker; Tomislav Gavrić,  PhD, film theorist; Dijana Metlić, PhD, art historian; Sanja Lazarević Radak, PhD, anthropologist

This study results from many years of multidisciplinary research on the history and aesthetics of the film avant-garde in the world and in Serbia. It is a detailed academic review of the lesser-known history of avant-garde and experimental film in the world and Serbia and contemporary cultural take on film art applied to the film experiment. This edition offers case studies of anthological short alternative films by Živojin Pavlović and Kokan Rakonjac from 1960: Triptych on Matter and Death and The Wall, as authentic Serbian variants of psychodrama neo-avant-garde film. The talks will focus on the concepts of the short film, avant-garde and neo-avant-garde film, experimental film and art video, and the culture and practice of alternative film in the SFRY.

Ivana Kronja

Holds a PhD in filmology and theorist of culture and media. Published numerous papers and participated in a number of conferences and seminars in the country and abroad. Obtained her bachelor’s, master’s and PhD degrees from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts, University of Belgrade. A member of the National Section of FIPRESCI SERBIA and the Serbian Academy of Film Arts and Sciences (AFUN) and a professor at the Department of Art and Design BAPUSS in Belgrade. Actively involved in film criticism in the region and collaborates at a number of film festivals in Serbia.

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Participants

Srđan Savić, film critic and the Niš Culture Center director; Dejan Dabić, Martovski Festival Art Director; Dušan Cicvara, journalist; Radoslav Vladić, DoP; Miroslav-Bata Petrović, filmmaker and producer, author of the book.

The book brings a series of examples of how Serbian filmmakers use their skills to bypass the lack of technical means available to the world’s great cinemas.

Miroslav-Bata Petrović (1949)

Obtained his BA in art history from the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. He has been making films since 1967, first as an amateur and professionally since the 1980s. Auteur of about 140 short films of various genres, 15 feature-length documentaries or experimental films, four medium-length films and three television documentaries (26, 35 and 12 episodes each). Engaged in film production and writing. Published four novels, two collections of short stories and seven essay books about cinema. Won multiple awards in Serbia and abroad and the Martovski festival Lifetime Achievement Award 2017. Lives and works in Belgrade

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30.3.2022. / 18h // Dom omladine Beograda

Participants: Mirjana Hadžić, author; Dejan Dabić, Martovski Festival Art Director; Goran Vukčević, film director

This monograph is an exceptional, valuable, and previous contribution to our cinematographic and film art, television journalism, and culture as a whole. Over 80 author’s texts, signed by well-known and notable names of Serbian culture and art, are presented on more than 500 large-format pages. In the second part, there is carefully systematized, rich, diverse and essential material. The reader’s experience is being enriched and deepened with over 500 photographs, film stills and other documents, telling a story about the paths, faces and landscapes from Slavuj’s life… (From the review by Dimitrije Tasić)

Mirjana Hadžić (Ruma, 1946)

Obtained her BA from the Faculty of Economics, Department of Organizational Sciences (Cybernetics), in Novi Sad. Worked as a business application programmer, IT manager and bank computer center director. She has been married to Slavuj Hadžić since 1973, with whom she has two sons, Miloš (1976) and Jovan (1977). Living with the filmmaker, listening, learning, understanding his work and her professional work as a computer scientist related to research and systematization of data certainly contributed to this monograph being presented in a form facilitating the development of new media, new steps in film, but pioneering in TV, in the late 20th century and the early new millennium.

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Participants:  Bojan Jovanović, anthropologist, writer and filmmaker; Ivan Velisavljević, filmologist; Dejan Dabić, Martovski festival Art Director; Miroljub Stojanović, Film Center Serbia

The book includes essays, interviews and authorized presentations by Bojan Jovanović on his rich film opus, alternative and experimental film, subversive and oneiric nature of cinema, the relationship between alternative and official cinematography, but also a wider code scope of these two cultures. The book also contains Jovanović’s essays on Andy Warhol, John Jost, Andrei Tarkovsky, R. W. Fassbinder …

Bojan Jovanović

Born in 1950 in Niš, where he finished elementary and high school. He received his bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees in anthropology and ethnology at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade, and while working at the Balkan Institute of SANU, he acquired the title of a scientific advisor.

He made over 40 alternative films, many in the production of the Students’ City Cultural Center – Academic Film Center. His most notable films: TV is the Cinema I go to Sitting in the Yard (1974), Teletheque (1975), The Found Channel (1975), Exodus (1976), Medium (1977), The Beginning (1978), The Thinking of the Eye (1979), In the Making (1980), Lennon (1981), Turmoil (1982), The Gift of the Virgin (1982), Holiday (1983), The Scenes that Ate Themselves(1984), The Process (1986), The Show (1986-87), Timed Beats of Time (1988). In the production of TV Novi Sad, he directed the films Life is a Dream (about Andrei Tarkovsky) and Collective Unconscious (about Carl Gustav Jung). Won the most significant domestic and foreign awards for his films.

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