Review article
https://doi.org/10.31664/zu.2018.102.05
The Second Film Avant-Garde in Yugoslavia: An Overview
Jelena Mišeljić
orcid.org/0000-0003-1610-1327
; Faculty of Dramatic Arts, University of Montenegro, Cetinje, Montenegro
Abstract
The paper will examine the theoretical works on the experimental film in Yugoslavia during the period of the early 1960s, the period often referred to as cinema of the second avant-garde. Being influenced by the early and formative years of formalist film theory and following the tendencies in the artistic and curatorial practices in Yugoslavia (other line), the decades after WW2 were marked by authors and films that were brought up by the amateur cine-clubs and the independent film festivals. The second avant-garde is a period of the redefined experimental cinema which had an enormous influence on further evolution of Yugoslav “autochthonous” and radical film movements, such as “The Black Wave.” This paper has an aim of analytical approach towards the cinema of the second avant-garde with regards to influences that shaped it as well to those which were shaped by it, taking into consideration both socio-political and socio-cultural context of Yugoslavia in the early 1960s. In this regard, in the paper will also be presented the brief analysis of the antifilm phenomenon and its originator—Mihovil Pansini.
Keywords
the cinema of the second avant-garde; socialism; GEFF; antifilm; experimental cinema; cine-clubs; formalism
Hrčak ID:
203844
URI
Publication date:
1.7.2018.
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