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Kino Beleŝke

Kino Beleŝke
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    • Film Notes #1
    • Kino Beleŝke
  • 1975
  • 16mm film transferred to digital, b&w, sound
  • 29min, 51sec
For many years lost and recently found, Kino Beleške was produced in 1975 in collaboration with the group of artists, curators and critics gathered around the Student Cultural Center (SKC) in Belgrade, which were at that time all concerned with the idea of art in society. The film includes verbal statements and performative gestures of the numerous protagonists of the New Artistic Practice in former Yugoslavia, referring to the role of art in society and re-thinking the concepts of form, autonomy, economy, politicality and the institutionalization of contemporary art. Dunja Blažević, the then director of the SKC, spoke about contemporary art practice, relating it to the principle of socialist self-management, which in the opinion of many contained the potential to fundamentally change the cultural value of art and the artist’s role in society.