DAS KABINETT

CENSORED WITHOUT CENSORSHIP (Das Kabinett - Lecture with Mr. Vanja Valtrovic)) 6th November 19:00 LHC Das Kabinett
Original title: Zabranjeni bez zabrane
Country: Serbia
Year: 2007
Genre: Documentary
Format: DVD
Language: Serbian with English subs
Run time:  52’

Director: Dinko Tucakovic and Milan Nikodijevic
Writer: Milan Nikodijevic
Producer:  Miroslav Mogorovic
Production: Art&Popcorn
Supported by: Ministry of culture of the Republic of Serbia, Secretariat for Culture - City of Belgrade

Plot: Through the conversation with Yugoslav film authors and excerpts from their films, this documentary tells a story of a film phenomenon and censorship, and its focus is, in fact, a painful epoch of Yugoslav film called "a Black Wave", which was the most important and artistically strongest period of Yugoslav cinematography, created in the sixties and buried in the early seventies by means of ideological and political decisions.

Appearances: Dušan Makavejev, Želimir Žilnik, Gordan Mihić, Lazar Stojanović, Branko Vučićević, Tomislav Tom Gotovac, Dragoljub Vojnov, Dimitrije Vojnov, Borislav Anđelić, Radoslav Zelenović, Mladomir Puriša Đorđević

Screeening in DAS Kabinett, with the presence of Vanja Valtrovic, expert on Black Wave cinema movement in Ex-Yugoslavia with Q&A.

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BALKAN ROCK STORY (7th November 17:30 LHC Das Kabinett - off program)
Original title: Balkanska Rock Prica
Country: Netherlands
Year: 2006
Genre: Documentary Film
Length: 49’
Format: BETA SP
Language: BCS with English subtitles

Directed by: Mladen Vekić
Cinematography: Mladen Vekić
Editing: Moek de Groot
Producer: Mladen Vekić
Production: Videorevolt

Synopsis: 'Balkanska rock priča' is a biographical note from the life of Vladimir Doknić (alias Vlado Morrison), the singer of the cover-band 'Balkan Rock Legends' who made true his dream to play on the Amsterdam cult stage Paradiso Palace, where almost all big names of the world music industry played. In rock'n'roll story of Vlado Morrison the stage becomes 'paradise' where the life of the dead Yugoslav meta-narration is extended. This intimate homage, told from the perspective of Vlado Morrison, exists on the memories of urban crowd raised on the territory and at the time of independent and proud ‘space and time’ whose sound and fury “invaded” the soul and the vocal cords of the central figure in the film. Simultaneously, the film talks about renewal of the spirit of a generation dispersed all over Europe and the world, the generation that attempts in various ways two put together the fragments of its own cultural memory and redeem the sense of belonging.

Screening in DAS Kabinett with the presence of author Mladen Vekić, proceeded with some of the best music video clips from Ex-Yugoslavia