North Macedonia

Early cinema

• Lucien Nonguet's Massacres de Macedonie (Massacres in Macedonia, 1903) is the first film footage that drew international attention to the stormy Macedonian milieu. This was one of many directed film journals, filmed and entirely processed in the Pathé studio in Vincennes near Paris.[1]
• Charles Rider Noble was, as a representative of the Charles Urban Trading Co. of London, given the task of documenting the current events in the Balkans during the period after the Ilinden uprising. It is thought that his film Macedonian Uprisers Fight Against the Turks (England, 1903) contains the first “live” killing captured on film. This was actually the first film portrait of Macedonia in Europe and the world, as well as the first official presence of a film professional on the Macedonian soil.[2]
• Ianachia and Manakia Manakis, cineasts & photographers.

Literature

• Goran Trenčovski, "A View Of The Macedonian Documentary Film".

Artists

• Ilija Šoškić

Video art

Events

• The Ohrid 89 international video colony. It enabled the production of video works in co-operation with RTV Skopje. Theorists, producers and video artists participated in the event, including Nuša Dragan, Srečo Dragan, and Marina Gržinić and Aina Šmid.

Literature

• "Videokunst in Mazedonien", in Ostranenie: 1. Internationales Videofestival am Bauhaus Dessau, Dessau: Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, 1993. (German)

• Македонско арт видео: антологија 1985-2005 [Macedonian Video Art: Ап Anthology], Skopje: NGM – Mala Stanica, 2005. Review. (Macedonian)

• Spot: Review of Photography 10: "Video", ed. Radoslav Putar, Zagreb: Grafički zavod Hrvatske, 1977. (Serbo-Croatian),(English)
  • Marijan Susovski, "Video u Jugoslaviji" / "Video in Yugoslavia", Spot 10, Zagreb, 1977.

• Sanja Iveković, Dalibor Martinis, "Video Scene in Yugoslavia?", in Video '79. Video, the First Decade / Dieci anni di videotape, Rome: Kane, 1979. (English)/(Italian)

• XVI Sao Paulo Biennial: Video from Yugoslavia, ed. Davor Matičević, Zagreb: Gallery of Contemporary Art Zagreb, 1981, 8 pp. (English)

• Biljana Tomić, "Pregled jugoslavenskog videa. Istočno od raja", in Video C.D. 83, Ljubljana: Cankarjev Dom, 1983. (Slovenian)

• Ješa Denegri, "Video Art in Yugoslavia 1969-1984", in Vidéo, ed. René Payant, Montréal: Artexte, 1986. (English)
  • "Video-umetnost u Jugoslaviji 1969-1984", RTV – teorija i praksa 36, Belgrade, Autumn 1984; repr. in Videosfera: video/društvo/umetnost, ed. Mihailo Ristić, Belgrade: Studentski izdavački centar, 1986, pp 124-131; repr. in Posleratni modernizam neoavantgarde / postmodernizam. Ogledi o jugoslovenskom umetničkom prostoru 1950–1990, Belgrade: Službeni glasnik, 2016, pp 190–202. (Serbian)

• Mihailo Ristić (ed.), Videosfera: video/društvo/umetnost [Videosphere: Video/Society/Art], Belgrade: Studentski izdavački centar, 1986, 219 pp. Anthology of theoretical texts about video, including contributions from video-makers. TOC. Review: Radoslav Radić. (Serbo-Croatian)

• Biljana Tomić, "YU video", in Ars Electronica '87, Linz, 1987. [3] (German)

• Video Art International: Yugoslavia, ed. K.R. Huffman, Boston: Institute of Contemporary Art, 1988. Exh. cat. (English)

• Barbara Borčić, "Video Art from Conceptualism to Postmodernism", in Impossible Histories: Historical Avant-gardes, Neo-avant-gardes, and Post-avant-gardes in Yugoslavia, 1918-1991, eds. Dubravka Djurić and Miško Šuvaković, MIT Press, 2003, pp 490-524, PDF. (English)

• Balkan Video Federation, ed. Branislav Dimitrijević, Belgrade: Center for Contemporary Art - Belgrade, 2000, [55] pp. Exh. cat. (English)

• Videografija regiona / Videography of the Region, ed. Aleksandra Sekulić, Belgrade: Dom kulture “Studentski grad”, 2009, 245 pp. [4] (Serbian)/(English)

• Zoran Erić, "The Question of Identity as Reflected through Video Art in ex-Yugoslavia", in Transitland: Video Art from Central and Eastern Europe 1989–2009, ed. Edit András, Budapest: Ludwig Museum--Museum of Contemporary Art, 2009, pp 57-68. (English)
  • "Problem identiteta kroz prizmu video umetnosti u bivšoj Jugoslaviji", in Biti iz van. Ka redefinisanju kulturnog identiteta Srbije, eds. Katarina Tojić and Marijana Simu, Belgrade: Kulturklammer, 2010, pp 38-52. (Serbian)

• Video, televizija, anticipacija / Video Television Anticipation, eds. Branka Benčić and Aleksandra Sekulić, Belgrade: Muzej savremenu umetnosti, 2013, [8] pp. Exh. booklet. [5] [6] (Serbian),(English)

• Cinemaniac > Misliti film: Video animacija anticipacija / Cinemaniac > Think Film: Video Television Anticipation, ed. Branka Benčić, Pula: Apoteka — Space for Contemporary Art, 2017, 77 pp. (Croatian)/(English)

• Jon Blackwood, "On Women’s Video Art in the context of Yugoslavia, 1969–91", in EWVA: European Women's Video Art in the 70s and 80s, eds. Laura Leuzzi, Elaine Shemilt, and Stephen Partridge, John Libbey, 2019, pp 55-66. [7] (English)

• Anja Foerschner, "Video Art", ch. 3 in Foerschner, Female Art and Agency in Former Yugoslavia, 1971-2001, Bloomsbury, 2024. Publisher.

Visual art

Cities

Skopje, Gevgelija

Publications

• Sonia Abadzieva, Visual Arts in Macedonia 20th Century, Book 2: Multimedia Art, Skopje: Osten, 2017, 192 pp. (Macedonian)/(English)

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