Croatian Avant-Garde Filmmakers of the 1960s
May 24, 2015
(80 min, 16mm/35mm, 1963-1968)
“The filmmakers represented in this program are among the most prominent members of the enormously vibrant Croatian experimental scene of the 1960s. All of them were members of the amateur cine-clubs that formed in all the major cities of Yugoslavia at the time, as well as participants in the Genre Film Festival, a unique festival of experimental film in Zagreb that was the most important gathering point for “film researchers” and other independent filmmakers from Yugoslavia. Their approach to cinematic experiments differed greatly, from a prototype of the so-called anti-film to works that anticipated the structural film movement, to poetic-meditative orientations.”
—Diana Nenadić
Screening Program
ENCOUNTER (SRETANJE) Vladimir Petek, Yugoslavia, 1963, 5 mins, B&W, 35mm
THE FORENOON OF A FAUN (PRIJE PODNE JEDNOG FAUNA) Tomislav Gotovac, Yugoslavia, 1963, 8 mins, B&W, 16mm
STRAIGHT LINE (STEVENS-DUKE) (PRAVAC (STEVENS-DUKE)) Tomislav Gotovac, Yugoslavia, 1964, 10 mins, B&W, 16mm
CIRCLE (JUTKEVICH-COUNT) (KRUŽNICA (JUTKEVIČ-COUNT)) Tomislav Gotovac, Yugoslavia, 1964, 12 min, B&W, 16mm
I’M MAD Ivan Martinac, Yugoslavia, 1967, 5 mins, Super 8mm transferred to 16mm
FOCUS Ivan Martinac, Yugoslavia, 1967, 7 mins, B&W, 35mm
PEOPLE (IN PASSING) II (LJUDI (U PROLAZU) II) Lordan Zafranović, Yugoslavia, 1967, 11 mins, B&W, 35mm
AFTERNOON (THE GUN) (POSLIJE PODNE (PUŠKA)) Lordan Zafranović, Yugoslavia, 1968, 15 mins, B&W, 35mm
Total running time: 80 mins.