Class on cinema of former Yugoslavia includes free public screenings

"Without Sasa’s personal efforts, this course never could have been offered," says Corey Creekmur, director of the UI Institute for Cinema and Culture. "Most of the films he is showing have never before been shown in the U.S. He had to track down distributors and visit archives in Belgrade and then make them understand that he intended to use the films for academic, not commercial, purposes."

Milic said that the course will focus on films from Serbia because he could not obtain copies of or permission to show most of the important films from other republics of the former Yugoslavia. Once the course is completed, the films will be housed in the UI Libraries, where they will be available for other students and scholars who wish to study them or include them in courses on European cinema.

Following are the dates of the film screenings, which are free and open to the public. All screenings will begin at 7 p.m. unless otherwise noted and will be held in Room 101 Becker Communication Studies Building.

• Feb. 1: Andrzej Wajda, Siberian Lady Macbeth aka Fury Is a Woman, 1961
  Zivorad Mitrovic, March on the Drina
  
  
• Feb. 8: Zivojin Pavlovic, The Awakening of the Rats, 1967
  Zivojin Pavlovic, When I am Dead and Pale, 1967
  
  
• Feb. 15: Dusan Makavejev, Man Is Not a Bird, 1965
  Dusan Makavejev, Love Affair, or the Tragedy of a Switchboard Operator, 1967
  
  
• Feb. 22: Alekandar Petrovic, I Even Met Happy Gypsies, 1967
  Mica Popovic, The Toughs, 1968
  
  
• March 1: Aleksandar Petrovic, Three, 1965, VHS
  Zivojin Pavlovic, Ambush, 1969
  
  
• March 8: Zelimir Zilnik, Early Works, 1969
  Dusan Makavejev, WR: Mysteries of the Organism, 1970
  
  
• March 22: Zivorad Mitrovic, Echelon of Dr. M, 1955
  Miomir Stamenkovic, The Maiden’s Bridge, 1976
  
  
• March 29: Srdan Karanovic, The Fragrance of Wild Flowers, 1977
  Goran Markovic, National Class up to 785 cm3, 1979
  
  
• April 5: Srdan Karanovic, Petria’s Wreath, 1980
  Rajko Grlic, In the Jaws of Life, 1984 (Croatian)
  
  
• April 9, 5:40 p.m.: Emir Kusturica, When Father Was Away on Business, 1985, (Bosnian)
  
  
• April 12: Slobodan Sijan, Who’s That Singing Over There?, 1980
  Goran Markovic, The Collecting Point, 1989
  
  
• April 19: Slobodan Sijan, The Marathon Family, 1982
  Zivko Nikolic, The Beauty of Sin, 1986
  
  
• April 26: Karpo Godina, The Raft of the Medusa, 1980 (Slovenian)
  Slobodan Pesic, The Harms Case, 1987
  
  
• April 30, 6 p.m.: Goran Markovic, Tito and Me, 1992
  
  
• May 3: Emir Kusturica, Underground, 1995

Article by Mary Geraghty Kenyon