Vukica Đilas

Vukica Đilas (1948-2 November 2001, Belgrade) was a journalist, writer, translator, film critic, and artist from Belgrade, Serbia. She studied dramaturgy at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade and belonged to a group of young artists interested in underground and experimental cinema together with Tomislav Gotovac, Slobodan Šijan, Lazar Stojanović (in whose 1974 film Plastic Jesus she performed). For almost 30 years after 1970, she shot her film diary in a frame-by-frame style, mostly on Kodachrome double 8mm film, using a small Pentaka camera.

Literature

• R.V., "Vukica Đilas, naša prijateljica", Vreme 566, 8 Nov 2001.
• Tatjana Nježić, "Život Vukice Đilas", Blic, 8 Dec 2015.
• Petra Belc, "Home Movies and Cinematic Memories: Fixing the Gaze on Vukica Đilas and Tatjana Ivančićin", in Experimental Cinemas in State-Socialist Eastern Europe, eds. Ksenya Gurshtein and Sonja Simonyi, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2022, pp 151-174. (English)

Links

• https://www.d-est.com/home-movies/
• https://www.dokumentarni.net/2016/05/17/kratki-utorak-izbor-iz-kucnih-filmova-beogradske-umjetnice-vukice-dilas/