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<onlyinclude>[[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]].</onlyinclude> (Ana Janevski)
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<onlyinclude>[[Academic Film Center Belgrade]] (Akademski filmski centar Beograd). AFC was founded in 1958, in what was then socialist Yugoslavia, under the name of Academic Cine Club. Through its long history, thanks to the authors who created their films and videos there, it became one of the most significant and most awarded film clubs in Yugoslavia. Some of the authors are [[Tomislav Gotovac]], [[Slobodan Šijan]], Zoran Popović, [[Živojin Pavlović]], Radoslav Vladić, Kokan Rakonjac, Dragoslav Lazić, Sava Trifković, Ivan Obrenov, Vjekoslav Nakić, Ivko Šešić, Nikola Đurić, Bojan Jovanović, Miodrag Milošević, Miloje Radaković, Dejan Vlaisavljević Nikt, Igor Toholj, Doplgenger Artist Duo... It was also the first cine-club that had many female artists as members, regularly making film there: Bojana Vujanović, Dragana Kršenković, Jasmina Livada, Julijana Terek, Zorica Kijevčanin, Biljana Belić, Jasmina Tešanović... In 1976 AFC became part of the Student’s City Cultural Center, public institution for student culture, funded by the government. The main activities of AFC include film workshops, lectures and film production - AFC offers free equipment for students and young authors and the organizational support for getting the funding for their films.  
  
In 1974 it relocated to New Belgrade within the Dom kulture Studentski grad.
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AFC has produced more than 600 films and videos. In 1982 AFC has founded the Alternative Film Archive to take care of its film and video heritage, and now has over 600 films and videos produced by AFC and a large collection of avant-garde films and videos by other authors in video or digital formats. The archive has a precious collection of avant-garde films and videos in all formats, a collection of experimental film-related material (books, periodicals, posters, production notes, oral history interviews etc.), as well as vintage cameras and apparatus. AFC has founded two important festivals: [[Alternative Film & Video]] (1982-1990, renewed in 2003),  International Animated Film Festival BALKANIMA (since 2004).  
 
 
 
 
http://www.alternativefilmvideo.org/
 
  
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http://afcarchive.rs/<br>
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http://dksg.rs/tekstDisplay.php?id=100118
  
 
See also: [[Serbia#Experimental film]]
 
See also: [[Serbia#Experimental film]]
  
 
[[Category:Experimental film]]
 
[[Category:Experimental film]]

Revision as of 18:51, 8 May 2019

Academic Film Center Belgrade (Akademski filmski centar Beograd). AFC was founded in 1958, in what was then socialist Yugoslavia, under the name of Academic Cine Club. Through its long history, thanks to the authors who created their films and videos there, it became one of the most significant and most awarded film clubs in Yugoslavia. Some of the authors are Tomislav Gotovac, Slobodan Šijan, Zoran Popović, Živojin Pavlović, Radoslav Vladić, Kokan Rakonjac, Dragoslav Lazić, Sava Trifković, Ivan Obrenov, Vjekoslav Nakić, Ivko Šešić, Nikola Đurić, Bojan Jovanović, Miodrag Milošević, Miloje Radaković, Dejan Vlaisavljević Nikt, Igor Toholj, Doplgenger Artist Duo... It was also the first cine-club that had many female artists as members, regularly making film there: Bojana Vujanović, Dragana Kršenković, Jasmina Livada, Julijana Terek, Zorica Kijevčanin, Biljana Belić, Jasmina Tešanović... In 1976 AFC became part of the Student’s City Cultural Center, public institution for student culture, funded by the government. The main activities of AFC include film workshops, lectures and film production - AFC offers free equipment for students and young authors and the organizational support for getting the funding for their films.

AFC has produced more than 600 films and videos. In 1982 AFC has founded the Alternative Film Archive to take care of its film and video heritage, and now has over 600 films and videos produced by AFC and a large collection of avant-garde films and videos by other authors in video or digital formats. The archive has a precious collection of avant-garde films and videos in all formats, a collection of experimental film-related material (books, periodicals, posters, production notes, oral history interviews etc.), as well as vintage cameras and apparatus. AFC has founded two important festivals: Alternative Film & Video (1982-1990, renewed in 2003), International Animated Film Festival BALKANIMA (since 2004).

Links

http://afcarchive.rs/
http://dksg.rs/tekstDisplay.php?id=100118

See also: Serbia#Experimental film