Film School Program: Black Wave with Sezgin Boynik and Branimir Stojanović at Summer School as School 2018
July 21, 2018, 19:00
Venue: Boxing Club

Summer School as School
July 16 – August 2, 2018

Stacion – Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina is pleased to announce the Film School Program.

The Film School Program is part of the Public Program of Summer School as School, designed to explore specific models of film production, impacting social, political and artistic positions. Film School Program of Summer School as School 2018 is concentrated on Black Wave, a tendency in Yugoslav film that emerged in the wake of the political and economic liberalisation of the country in the 1960s and 70s.

Film School Program with Sezgin Boynik and Branimir Stojanović is focused on Dušan Makavejev's Innocence Unprotected (Nevinost bez zaštite).

Innocence Unprotected is a film inside a film made in 1968. It is a remake of a "first Serbian sound film" made in 1941. By applying archive and documentary materials to an already existing film, Makavejev comments on the questions of nationalism, communism and anti-fascist struggle in Yugoslavia. With this work, which is similar to Eisentsein's plan to remake Griffith's Birth of a Nation, Makavejev is showing that a film is a dream and giving devices of how to wake up from this dream.

Dušan Makavejev's Innocence Unprotected was selected by Sezgin Boynik for the Film School Program of Summer School as School 2018. The film is a quotation material used by Sezgin Boynik and Branimir Stojanović for the public discussion following the screening of the film.

Sezgin Boynik is a theoretician based in Helsinki. He completed his PhD on Yugoslav “Black Wave” cinema. Co-edited Nationalism and Contemporary Art: Critical Reader (MM & Exit, 2007), and History of Punk and Underground in Turkey (BAS, 2008). Recent publications include Noise After Babel (Spector Books, 2015), On Lenin: Atlases, Herbariums, Rituals (Checkpoint Helsinki, 2017), and the articles “Ideologies of Artistic Education” (Inca Press, 2016) and "Filming the Uprising People" (Moderna Galerija, 2017). He is editor-in-chief of Rab-Rab: journal for political and formal inquiries in art.

Branimir Stojanović lives and works in Belgrade. In his work situated between philosophy, psychoanalysis and art, he deals with practices of writing and conceptual political interventions in institutional philosophical contexts, art and psychoanalysis. He is the founder and a member of the self-educated platform, archive of Yugoslav humanistic, Ignorant School master and his committees (2010-2015), member of the artistic Monument Group (2004-2013), founder and lecturer in School for history and theory of art (1999-2003), member of Belgrade society of psychoanalysts (2002). Since 1980 he publishes texts and essays in the field of philosophy, theory of psychoanalysis, criticism of ideology and theory of art.