Promotion: Film Magazine FILAŽ

1.4.2022. / 18h // Dom omladine Beograda

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.

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Book promotion: Welcome to the Planet Earth, a Dušan Vukotić Film (Udruga Dušan Vukotić, Zagreb)

Introduction and Set by Veljko Krulčić

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…

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Book promotion: Aesthetics of the Avant-garde and Experimental Film: Body, Gender and Identity. Europe-USA-Serbia (FCS, 2020)

31.3.2022. / 18h // Dom omladine Beograda

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

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Book promotion: Miroslav-Bata Petrović Make Do and Mend Cinema (Niški kulturni centar, 2020)

31.3.2022. / 18h // Dom omladine Beograda

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.

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Book promotion: Slavuj Hadžić – Life Thought With Images

Radio-televizija Vojvodine, 2015.

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)

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Book promotion : Nurtured Wildlife – Film and Alternative Film (DKSG, 2020.)

30.3.2022. / 18h // Dom omladine Beograda

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 …

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