Radmila Djurica

International Festival of New Film and Video, Alternative film / video

The most visited retrospective was an Austrian avant-garde film, and films made by Croatian experimental filmmaker Ivan Ladislav Galeta. And yet just another interesting program called Search and Seizure, assisted and edited by well known Greek experimental filmmaker Vassily Burikas. This was a unique opportunity to see the masterpiece of avant-garde film seen in its original form. The next edition of the festival, under the following programs and the round table discussed the question of medium of film and does film that we know ends?

The festival jury of 2011 consists of French film and video artist Jean Gabriel PÉRIOT who gave a special presentation of his films, Jurij Meden from Slovenia- the Slovenian cinematheque program editor, who gave  lecture on Slovenia's experimental films, and theorist and curator from Serbia Stevan Vukovic, editor of Film forum of the Student Cultural Centre in Belgrade.   "In an agreement with the organizers of the International Festival of New Film and Video, Alternative film, we do not take the winning films to present the whole story, but films that were separated in some way, to be successful in these categories to actually determines the selection of movies. We had the opportunity to choose to ten, but we reduced the number to four films, because those reflect the number of symptom reduction offered movies and cultivation. There is also a slight decline in the quality: the average level of quality films, simple in manner is the profile that corresponds to the festival. It was quite of narrative films that deviate from what would be expected when it comes to a festival that has a range of alternative and experimental cinema under the title of Alternative Film. There are plenty of films that use a dance choreography that is only slightly transferred to film, using the principles of some assembly, but remains the scenic dominant. Therefore, we sought to avoid it to be successful category of experimental films. One success mentioned is a film produced by the Academic Film Center, and the author has already won a prize, but he managed to insist on the experiment and uncompromising work even at the cost of rejecting a spectator. I think he deserves to be mentioned, and we all agreed of that .That's Mane Žuđelović from Montenegro who lives in Belgrade, actively involved in the production and movies. We sought to distinguish movies that are fully developed in an appropriate manner. In many films done we hear very bad sound. Even with DVDs, there were senses of some omissions. These films are completely done properly, so the experiment was largely planned and not accidental, which is very important for experimental films. The movie is called Ray Ban Melt Down, where author uses all available instrumentalities in experimenting: from shocking scenes to strange and different blending assembly, leaving blanks, etc., it is interesting to see. This is a relatively young author.

From the region, there was another person who sent the film that we thought that was interesting. Dalibor Baric from Croatia showed us Pain So Light It Appears as Tickle, a kind of collage of visual, which is actually running as a chopped collage techniques that have been made in an anarchist structure of the movie. You can see some experience animation and apparently engagement in animation, from his hand drawings, which comes from the milieu of underground comic books. This all fits in nicely with this particular author-made music. I hope that we will have him here next year. Maybe with some exhibition to show us the different types of work.

   Here is what Jean Gabriel PÉRIOT said to us: