A selection of short films from ACADEMIC FILM CENTER, BELGRADE

Academic Film Center was established in 1958 in Belgrade as a cinema club for film amateurs, since it has produced over 500 short films. From 1975 it has been operating inside of the Cultural Centre of Student City in New Belgrade. It hosts two film festivals - Alternative Film/Video, since 1982, and European Animated Film Festival Balkanima, since 2004.

Program curator and presentation: Milan Milosavljevic

This program presents mix of various decades works of amateur/alternative/experimental films from AFC since beginning of 60ies. Foreign authors made their works for AFC in residency program of our Festival Alternative Film/Video. Minimalistic-formalist experiment "Sky Lines" was presented this year at 64th International Film Festival Berlin in a short competition program.

1. Yugoslavian Home Movies, Salise Hughes, 12:00, 2014, archive digital footage

2. Gavran / The Raven, Nikola Djuric, 6:00, 1973, 16mm

3. Praznik / Holiday, Bojan Jovanovic, 11:00, 1983, 16mm

4. Kako su me prvi put fotografisali / First Photo of Me Ever Taken, Milenko Jovanovic, 1:00, 1972, 8mm

5. Sky Lines, Nadine Poulain, 9:40, 2013, HD

6. Zid / The Wall, Kokan Rakonjac, 10:00, 1960, 16mm

7. Che, Zoran Saveski, 1:00, 2011, HD

8. Smrt metalosaurusa / The Death of Metalosaurus, Igor Toholj, 3:10, 1988, super 8mm

9. Over Belgrade, Andres Denegri, 4:06, 2011, super 8mm

10. Peoplemeter, Incredible Bob, 14:00, HD

Academic Film Center Belgrade (Akademski filmski centar Beograd). The Belgrade circle, gathered around the Academic Film Center founded by Predrag Čonkić in 1958, was characterized by the tendency to move away from the traditional model of "academic cinema", but not in the structuralist way of the Zagreb Center. Belgrade filmmakers stressed the artist's right to individual expression and were largely inspired largely by surrealist and Russian film. Very soon they revealed a predilection for presenting reality in an "unembellished" form and offering a deep psychological motivation for their characters. Thus the so-called Black Wave emerged, proposing pessimistic films offering a turbid image of reality, with central figures like Dušan Makavejev and Živojin Pavlović. (Ana Janevski)

In 1974 it relocated to New Belgrade within the Dom kulture Studentski grad.

The purpose of AFC

- production of the authors' films and video works, their distribution and projection

- projection of fims and video works of home and foreign authors in the Alternative Cinema

- education within film schools, film and video workshops - publishing

- alternative film and video archive

http://www.alternativefilmvideo.org/

http://www.eyeproduction.com/films/afc/index.htm

http://www.balkanima.org/en/