New Film Dark Matter: Innovations in Yugoslav Cinema in the Late 1960s
Wed, Feb 19, 2014
6:00 PM
The period between the 1960s and early 1970s marked the height of productivity, creativity, and innovation in Yugoslav film. This screening will feature films from this rich period, focusing on work associated with a loose movement called New Film—derisively referred to as “the black wave” by their critics for their controversial exploration of the dark, hidden side of socialist society. Often formally experimental in the tradition of European vanguard cinema, New Film advocated for individual expression free from state control while at the same time endorsing Marxist socialism. Yugoslav New Film has rarely been shown in New York—this screening will expose new audiences to an important movement in foreign film and contribute to furthering its study. Discussion will follow the screening.
Participants
Katherine Carl
Deputy Director and James Gallery Curator
Katherine Carl is an art historian and currently curator of the James Gallery and deputy director of the Center for the Humanities at the Graduate Center since 2011. She was Curator of Contemporary Exhibitions at The Drawing Center (2004-2007); this follows her work at Dia Art Foundation (1999-2003); manager of the international artists exchange program ArtsLink (1996-1997); and program specialist at the National Endowment for the Arts (1991-1995). She has taught art history, theory and criticism and curatorial methods in the Ph.D. Program in Art History at The Graduate Center (since 2014), Tyler School of Art (2010), Parsons (2009), Moore College of Art (2009) and New York University (2002-2003). Carl received an American Council of Learned Societies fellowship in 2007 as well as numerous grants from The Trust for Mutual Understanding for her research and curatorial projects. She has lectured at Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Whitney Museum, New York, among other national and international venues. Carl’s co-edited books are Lost Highway Expedition Photobook (2007) as part of her participation in the School of Missing Studies, and Evasions of Power (2011). Her writing has been included in Speculation Now (Vera List Center and Duke University Press, 2015) and Toward Participation as a Critical Spatial Practice (Sternberg Press, 2016). She holds a PhD in Art History and Criticism from the State University of New York, Stony Brook, and a BA from Oberlin College.
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Nadia Peručić
Nadia Peručić is a doctoral candidate in Art History at The Graduate Center and a curatorial assistant in the department of Modern and Contemporary Drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum. Her dissertation is about visual art produced in the region of the former Yugoslavia after the breakup of the country. It focuses on a particular trend in Post-Yugoslav art – works from the mid-1990s to the present that in various ways document cultural and political life during the socialist era, the civil war period, and the transition to new states.