5. 10.  // 19,00 __ Im Lauf der Zeit, Wim Wenders

6. 10.  // 19,00 __ Lone Star, John Sayles

Film programme, concept: Petar Milat

„As much as any other art, film can answer the question of borders by emphasizing the perspective of reconnaissance, questioning or tempting – by emphasizing its own avant-garde position; literally, that it is in front. However, as an art, film is still in between: between other different arts, mediums, genres. The tension of this simultaneity – that it is in front and in between at the same time – is not only characteristic of films; however, the art of cinematography was, at least during the first century of its existence, perceived as that paradigmatic art in which the tension of its place or its position (to be in front, but in between) was at its peak.   

Toying with the film as a border art (on the level of form and the system of art) and as an art which can have borders for its contents and topic, we will try to examine what such a double marginality can mean for art/s, especially when the borders of film seem to be replaced by the borders of other arts.

In order to reconstruct the borders of films, and one always needs to add – and the cinematographic step forward on the other side of the borders of art – it is first worth reconstructing the film’s step forward that was so significant for the 20th century, and that is the industrial character of cinematography, meaning either the massive work distribution or the massive fabrication of pictures. In short, the difficulties of such a reconstruction lie in the fact that, in order to examine what meaning do borders have for a specific art, we would have to reconstruct or re-stage the entire 20th century.

To the question of difficulty of such a total reconstruction of history or – ultimately – history as a total installation that stems from the question of borders and art, „IN FRONT, IN BETWEEN“ will answer sideways. It will dismantle the film border on its respective elements: picture, story, song, location.“ (PM) 

Ksenija Stevanović is the music editor-in-chief of the III programme of Radio Belgrade. She is a PhD candidate in musicology at the University of Nanterrre.

Nenad Romić za Novyi Byte is repetitive and meditative, when not boring. Witty, when not strenuous.

Petar Milat is a philosopher and head of club MaMa in Zagreb.