MMC Luka, Pula and Center for Cultural Decontamination, Belgrade,  in cooperation with Pula Film Festival, invite you to the exhibition:

CINEMANIAC 2012/Think Film
Special program of Pula Film Festival

Slobodan Šijan: Film Leaflet
Opening: July 22, 20.30h

Curators: Branka Benčić and Aleksandra Sekulić

Program
CINEMANIAC 2012/Think Film
Slobodan Šijan: Film Leaflet


July 22 – August  6, 2012
MMC Luka, Pula

July 22, 2012, 20h Exhibition opening

July 23, 2012, 20h Conversation with Slobodan Šijan and screening of his films
Film Leaflet, program 1:
Experimental films of Slobodan Šijan
Self-portrait At the Cemetery (Autoportret na groblju) 3' (1970)
Handmade (Ručni radovi) 2' (1971)
Structures (Strukture) 4' (1970)
city landfill on ada huja in belgrade (gradsko đubrište na adi huji u beogradu) 8' (1970)
Kosta Bunuševac In a Film About Himself (Kosta Bunuševac u filmu o samom sebi) 14' (1970)

July 24, 2012, 20h
Film Leaflet, program 2:
Experimental films of Slobodan Šijan
Morning In Pink (Jutro u ružičastom) 18' (1971)
Yeah 14' (1972)
A Song For Tom  (Pesma za Toma) 13' (2010)

July 25, 2012, 20h
Film Leaflet, program 3:
TV films of Slobodan Šijan
Whatever Happened To Filip Preradović  (Šta se dogodilo sa Filipom Preradovićem) 45' (1976)

July 26, 2012, 20h
Film Leaflet , program 4:
TV films of Slobodan Šijan
The Most Beautiful Room (Najlepša soba) 50' (1978)

(all films screened from DVD format)

1-15. 10. 2012
CZKD Bioskop
Slobodan Šijan: Film leaflet
The exhibition, discussions, screenings
www.czkd.org

The program is realized in cooperation of MMC Luka, Pula and Center for Cultural Decontamination, Belgrade, in partnership with Pula Film Festival, and with support of Ministry of Culture, Republic of Croatia; City of Pula; Croatian Audiovisual Center, Region of Istria, Tourism Association and Ministry of Culture, information and information Society, Republic of Serbia.

Exhibition set up: Branka Benčić, Slobodan Šijan
Technical set-up: Miro Ploj; Translations: Iva Štekar; Proofreading: Miodrag Kalčić Kina
Design: Metaklinika



CINEMANIAC - As a yearlong continuous research and exhibition project, Cinemaniac was born from the desire to present works from the world of art and film created at the crossroads of these media. From its very beginning, it has been an active context enabling the presentation of works of art, a meeting place where social, cultural, technological, media and aesthetic aspects integrate, an intersection where art, artists, institutions and audiences meet, where new forms of cooperation are formed, and where relationships between film and visual arts are discussed. The exhibitions within the current and future program platform Think Film, as research in progress, are a continuation of past experience with historical heritage of experimental film, like the research and presentation whose center of attention was MAFAF Festival in Pula (2010), as well as last year’s look backwards, the retrospective CINEMANIAC X. The project gathers artists who form a specific relationship with the idea of film as a „space for thought“, film by other means, and a criticism of the film apparatus, a place which reflects social, ideological and cultural aspects, where film becomes a kind of repertory, a cultural interface.

From the publication “Slobodan Šijan: Film Leaflet”, CINEMANIAC 2012:

“From this institution, the Film Leaflet as an expression, we shall be observing the films introduced by the Film Leaflet, with which it produces and corresponds. In this exhibition, films are a “leaflet by other means”, and in such a contemplation of leaflet/institution, they are a manifest, an exhibition, an experiment, a starting point, a conclusion. They project into the future finding, anticipating, sensing, dictating motives, topics and issues of the later “big” filmography; they avail themselves of the entire experience of experimental film, and the history of film language is their resource treated with the enthusiasm and self-confidence of a Bildungsroman protagonist. From the ecosystem, work process and song of the “city landfill on ada huja in belgrade”, through textures of image and sound in the film “Yeah”, to the shooting from the cemetery in “Morning in Pink”, here comes the Leaflet, film thinking by all means.”

Aleksandra Sekulić, “Film thinking by all means”

The visual production of “works on paper”, such as the Film Leaflet by Slobodan Šijan, represents an art form where artists experiment with a cinematic way of thinking and a wish to earn recognition for a marginal artistic area of visual and textual works, pointing out their research and critical potential, and destabilizing the usual paradigm. In a way, Film Leaflet represents Šijan’s hybrid encyclopedia comprising antifilm, the filmography of Yugoslav cinema, single directors like John Ford, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock…, Boško Tokin’s Filmus, lists, comments, notes, diagrams. Šijan's experimental films also appear in the Film Leaflet, just like some of his works produced in other media like Media Suicide, the Kitsch Sequence or Vertigo. In this way Film leaflet takes a significant place in Šijan’s oeuvre. His current reactualization and reinterpretation contribute to a renewed interest in a whole series of avant-garde and neo-avant-garde art practices.

Branka Benčić, “Cinematography codes”