Videoteca

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Short Film About Cinema Enthusiasm 2019
Short documentary about a group of young filmmakers who started in Kino klub Novi Sad in 1951. With little money and maximum effort they succeeded to establish a professional film production in Vojvodina (part of Serbia and former Yugoslavia).

The Road Movie 2017 star_border 6.9
Anything can happen on Russian roads and is precisely shot by the dashboard camera. Super-objective video registration grows into the strong image of Russian national character – with its permanent awaiting for the miracle and habitual approach to real dramas. A forest on fire as a symbol of Russian hell, a military tank at a car wash and car chase in the vicinity of Kremlin shot with a dashboard cam at the same time when Boris Nemtsov, the leader of political opposition, was shot dead near Kremlin. Dashboard cam depicts life in it’s purity as an unbiased observer.

The Other Line 2016
Druga linija aka The Other Line is a product of many years of research of neo-avant-garde cultural and art scene in Novi Sad, Serbia (late 60s and 70s), which has been marginalized until today. This artistic movement was directly connected not only with important art centers of the former Yugoslavia, but also with existing flows of world art during its brief and productive activities (7e Biennale de Paris, 19th Berlinale). The cultural and artistic emancipation of that time had implied individual freedom of expression and strong reaction to established boundaries. This avant-garde movement had become threat to communist establishment, the authors' work were sabotaged, the films were sealed off, five artists were taken to trial, two were sent in prison. How is it that the retrograde mechanism of shutting down and removing the most creative and representative progressive impulses of our surrounding is still so current to this day?

Apophenia 2016 star_border 5
Relying on the work of Letonian scientist Constantine Raudive, Marko Mazibrada, a psychiatrist disappointed in his profession, performs experiments aimed to empirically determine whether there is life after death, by phenomenon of apophenia. Together with Simon Besedić, alcoholic and editor of Armageddon Monthly, the magazine that deals with the paranormal phenomena, Nikola Mrzopoljić, manual labourer and paterfamilias, and Eta, pharmacist and unusual prostitute which Besedić offers a relationship, he experiences a sequence of weird events...

Strange Forest 2014
After sending their son to rehab from drug abuse, they find out that he has run away from the rehab center and that he has a dept to a local drug boss, which may be the reason he is on the run. His parents start blaming each other for their son's mistakes, and the father decides to leave their family home. In the next few days they both are trying to find their son, and they both face the brutal reality of life in Serbia on their own way.

Mica and Stories Around Her 2010
Milica Ostojic (aka Mica Trofrtaljka or Mica Davorika), a singer from Milicevci near Cacak (Serbia) by singing the song "Davorike, dajke" became a big star of new underground music in the seventies in former Yugoslavia. Forgotten for years, she returned to the scene in the film "Pretty Village, Pretty Flame", saying the historical sentence: "Shut up mate, erotica".

The Heart of the Wise Lives in the House of Sorrow 2009
A surreal satire about a philosophy student who takes a job as a gravedigger while suffering an existential crisis.

Africa 2008
It's a day like any other, nothing unusual about it whatsoever. Everything is absolutely ordinary. The radio stations are broadcasting the usual program. One announcer is playing "Caladont" with his listeners. But someone else will also play "Caladont" today.

Good Morning Malignant Cell 2004
The day in life of a weird family. The unemployed father who has amnesia, mother who grows weed and son who sells it on the street in order to feed the family, the daughter who has succeeded as a porn-star, the elder son – an intellectual who translates Slovakian porn movies to a neighbor.

Brotherly Dance 2004
Savo from Kikinda (Serbia) and his brother recall how they called communal service few years back to empty the septic tank in their backyard. As careless servicemen weren't coming for days, Savo staged his death by drowning in the hole. Communal service sent three trucks while Savo was looking at them from the attic. A story of a small man who fought the system and won, only to become a huge YouTube hero afterwards.

Heart 1970
A film that documents Bogdanka Poznanović's public performance piece 'Action-Heart-Object' where a large heart sculpture was carried around the streets of Novi Sad.