Miroslav 'Bata' Petrović

Live performance of educational film about the film. Experiencing cinema as Bildungsroman, told with references on history of film as a free resource, and then film itself as manifesto.

Katinka Savcic was the wife of Milos Savcic, one of the most important Serbian builders and businessmen from the end of the 19th century until the Second World War. Katinka was a German who became related to the Serbian people and as such refused to cooperate with the Germans in 1941. That is why, together with the children and their families, she was expelled from their palace. They welcomed the end of the war in their vineyard cottages. When the liberators came in 1944, they expelled them from there as well, as representatives of the defeated bourgeoisie. This is a film about the tragic fate of a woman, but also about Milos Savcic and the development of Serbia during the first half of the 20th century.

A group of farmers with financial difficulties decide to ask help from their fellow villager who emigrated to the States 30 years ago. Shot with nonprofessional actors from the amateur theatre in Kovin, Serbia.

In the summer of 1990, writer / director Nikola Stojanović shot his new feature film Belle Epoque in Sarajevo. The war in Bosnia and Herzegovina breaks out, making it imposible to finish the editing of the film. The year is now 1996, and Nikola Stojanović remembers working on expensive project. He lives in Belgrade, the film's negative is in Zagreb and sound materials are in Sarajevo. Will he ever finish editing his film?

Miroslav “Bata” Petrović is one of the most prolific filmmakers of the former Yugoslavia and present-day Serbia. This is a journey through the life and extraordinary works of a master of film alternative and extreme film experimentation.

Whereas Lična Disciplina is a straight forward documentation of Terek’s performance, in The Effects of Earth's Gravity on Naive Beings Petrovic conveys his pessimistic message with a wide range of formal effects of the image and the sound. This film was produced at the Amateur Film Club of House of Youth Belgrade (Amaterski Filmski Klub Doma Omladine Beograd) and not in the AFC.

Live performance of educational film about the film. Experiencing cinema as Bildungsroman, told with references on history of film as a free resource, and then film itself as manifesto.

Live performance of educational film about the film. Experiencing cinema as Bildungsroman, told with references on history of film as a free resource, and then film itself as manifesto.

Katinka Savcic was the wife of Milos Savcic, one of the most important Serbian builders and businessmen from the end of the 19th century until the Second World War. Katinka was a German who became related to the Serbian people and as such refused to cooperate with the Germans in 1941. That is why, together with the children and their families, she was expelled from their palace. They welcomed the end of the war in their vineyard cottages. When the liberators came in 1944, they expelled them from there as well, as representatives of the defeated bourgeoisie. This is a film about the tragic fate of a woman, but also about Milos Savcic and the development of Serbia during the first half of the 20th century.

A group of farmers with financial difficulties decide to ask help from their fellow villager who emigrated to the States 30 years ago. Shot with nonprofessional actors from the amateur theatre in Kovin, Serbia.

A group of farmers with financial difficulties decide to ask help from their fellow villager who emigrated to the States 30 years ago. Shot with nonprofessional actors from the amateur theatre in Kovin, Serbia.

In the summer of 1990, writer / director Nikola Stojanović shot his new feature film Belle Epoque in Sarajevo. The war in Bosnia and Herzegovina breaks out, making it imposible to finish the editing of the film. The year is now 1996, and Nikola Stojanović remembers working on expensive project. He lives in Belgrade, the film's negative is in Zagreb and sound materials are in Sarajevo. Will he ever finish editing his film?

Whereas Lična Disciplina is a straight forward documentation of Terek’s performance, in The Effects of Earth's Gravity on Naive Beings Petrovic conveys his pessimistic message with a wide range of formal effects of the image and the sound. This film was produced at the Amateur Film Club of House of Youth Belgrade (Amaterski Filmski Klub Doma Omladine Beograd) and not in the AFC.

Whereas Lična Disciplina is a straight forward documentation of Terek’s performance, in The Effects of Earth's Gravity on Naive Beings Petrovic conveys his pessimistic message with a wide range of formal effects of the image and the sound. This film was produced at the Amateur Film Club of House of Youth Belgrade (Amaterski Filmski Klub Doma Omladine Beograd) and not in the AFC.

A three-projector Super 8 film.