Bosnia and Herzegovina

Cities

Sarajevo

Artist groups

Arts and engineering groups and collectives in CEE#Bosnia and Herzegovina

Experimental film

Filmmakers

• Ivica Matić [1] [2]

Centres

• Sarajevo Cinema Club (Kino klub Sarajevo). A group of film buffs founded the Club in order to "spread the culture of love for the cinema." Among the club's first authors were Mirko Komosar, Amir Hadžidedić, Nikola and Velimir Stojanović, Zlatko Lavanić, Mirza Idrizović; later they were joined by Ivica Matić and Vesko Kadić. The expansion of the Sarajevo television network provided them with opportunities for professional work in documentary and feature films, which led to the gradual decline of this most influential cinema club in Sarajevo. Some technically proficient 16 mm experimental and short feature films were produced by the club, some of which also exist as 35 mm copies. In 1967, the club members started a film magazine Sineast, which is still being published today.
• The Word of the Young Cinema Club (Filmski klub Riječ mladih). In 1957 a group of film lovers in Sarajevo, who met through the magazine Riječ mladih (The Word of the Young), formed a cinema club of the same name. They would meet on Sundays at the Tesla Cinema, watch films and discuss them and general cinema topics afterwards, with growing ambitions to produce their own works. Out of this a process of amateur film production started that was to become the learning ground for Ratko Orozović, Duško Dimitrovski and Mladen Sihrovsky, cinematographers Stipe Svetinović and Mustafa Mustafić, and later in the 1970s, Nedžad Begović, Milenko Prstojević, Midhat Ajanović, and, for some time, Emir Kusturica as well.
• Academic Photo Cinema Club, Sarajevo

Publications

• Riječ mladih magazine.
• Sineast magazine, started in 1967 by the members of Sarajevo Cinema Club.

Literature

• Amir Muratović, Slatka slast periferije: Enciklopedija Ivice Matića. [3]

New media art, Media culture

Literature

• Darko Zovko, "Sarajevo Link", 1995. [4]
• Tom Bass, "A Travellogue from the Balkan", Telepolis, 19.06.1997. [5]

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