Wyspa Institute of Art
17th June 2011, 7 pm
book launch / screening with editor/ curator Ana Janevski
(Warsaw, MoMA)


Alternativa invites you to the promotional meeting of our latest book As Soon as I Open My Eyes I See a Film. Experiment in the Art of Yugoslavia in the 1960s and 1970s, inspired by the first exhibition organized by the MoMA Warsaw. It’s a journey to a country which has ceased to exist, but which gave rise to the most important art myth in our part of Europe – the myth of radical art. The presentation of the book is accompanied by the screening of short amateur films from Yugoslav cineclubs and the examples of Yugoslav ‘Black Wave Cinema’. The program entitled We cannot promise to do more than experiment includes films by Dušan Makavejev, Karpo Godina, Želimir Žilnik, Sanja Iveković.

Programme:

Dušan Makavejev, Don’t believe monuments / Nie wierz pomnikom, Akademickie Centrum
Filmowe in Beograd 1959, 16mm, 5’ (no sound)
Film shown courtesy of Akademickie Centrum Filmowe in Beograd

Mihovil Pansini, Scusa Signorina / Przepraszam panią, Film Club Zagreb, 1963, 6’ 30’’
(sound)
Film shown courtesy of Chorwacki Związek Filmowy/ Hrvatski Filmski Savez, Zagrzeb

Ivan Martinac, Monologue about Split / Monolog o Splicie, Film Club Split, 1961-62,
16mm, 7’ 21’’ (sound)
Film shown courtesy of Chorwacki Związek Filmowy/ Hrvatski Filmski Savez, Zagrzeb

Vladimir Petek, Encounters / Spotkania, Film Club Zagteb, 1963, 16mm, 8’ (sound)
Film shown courtesy of Chorwacki Związek Filmowy/ Hrvatski Filmski Savez, Zagrzeb

Tomislav Gotovac, Blue Rider (Godard) / Błękitny jeździec(Godard-Art), 1964, 16mm, 14’
(sound)
Film shown courtesy of Chorwacki Związek Filmowy/ Hrvatski Filmski Savez, Zagrzeb

Zelimir Zilnik, Black Movie / Czarny film, 35mm, 14’ sound + English subtitles
Film shown courtesy of the Artist

Karpo Godina, Litany for Happy People, 1969, 35, mm, 10’ sound + English subtitles
Film shown courtesy of the Artist