
Aleksandar Davić
Directing
Biography
Aleksandar Davić was a Serbian film director and screenwriter. His works examined avant-garde and neoavant-garde artistic practices. He graduated in film and theater directing at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad. He directed music and experimental video works and documentaries, and many music videos for popular Yugoslav rock bands. His feature film "The Party" won the award for the best screenplay in Serbia in 2005. He was a professor at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad and a professor of digital video at the Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Arts in Belgrade.
Known For

Seventeen year old Milan is one of the world's top young soccer players. Trying to protect him from preying agents will unite his divorced parents.
The Golden Boy

A Red Army major caught between East and West Berlin finds his wife gone and somebody else moved into his apartment.
Gorilla Bathes at Noon

In the summer of 1991 the war broke out in Croatia. In a holiday house in Fruška Gora hills in Serbia, near the border with Croatia, a group of young people are having a birthday party. They try to have some fun and act like nothing is going on. The party is shattered by the war. They can hear the artillery, but something is also happening between them. Inevitably, some of the boys end up on the frontline and everyone of them is effected by the war that is starting to rage. "The Party" is about individual destinies of the characters trapped in isolated house in hills and surrounded by growing paranoia of the officially not yet declared war.
The Party

A story about an unusual break-up.
NS Roulette

A surreal satire about a philosophy student who takes a job as a gravedigger while suffering an existential crisis.
The Heart of the Wise Lives in the House of Sorrow
It is difficult to characterize Slobodan Tišma. He is unique and versatile. He wanders with joy throughout the artistic landscape, drawing it with his words since the early sixties. He started as a poet, he was a conceptualist, an "invisible artist" and a rock musician ("Luna"/"La Strada"- former Yugoslav New Wave bands). Currently, he is a prose writer, and sometimes he engages in minimalistic performances. Wearing different masks he moved from one artistic space to another breaking the stereotypes and creating an aesthetic phenomenon out of his own existence. His mainstay is margin. Through trees and ocean he communicates with the universe. He loves the game of seeking, and hiding again. He is a persistent walker. With his silent steps he pops up daily in the corners of Novi Sad, searching for his own pleasure. Similar to his writings, this film has no formal completeness and comprehensiveness. It wonders who Slobodan Tišma is.
Masks

A documentary about Novi Sad’s rock band Boye, which in the early 80s gave life to female spirit in Yugoslavia’s r’n’r music, fully aware of the type of music they chose, managed to position themselves on, up to then exclusively “male” scene and forced themselves as the original occurrences.
Boye: The First Real Women Sound
Documentary about the New Year’s Eve train Novi Sad-Sarajevo.
New Year's Eve Train
Documentary about a mental institution for children and youth in Veternik.
Clients

An experimental film about an art group trying to get their works across the border to Slovenia during the economical and cultural blockade of Yugoslavia in 1993.
Made in Serbia: Impossible II

Movie about the political repressions towards members of Otpor! in Serbia. Otpor! (resistance) was a political organization in Serbia from 1998 until 2004.
Under the Authority of the Police

An experimental work made up of various instances of TV hosts saying "good evening".
Good Evening
Documentary about a farm in the north of Bačka.
No Number, Northern Border

An experimental documentary made up of footage of NATO's bombing of a refinery in Novi Sad, Serbia in 1999. The refinery was bombed in 13 separate days, and a total of 255 rockets were fired at it.
255 Hits

An experimental work about the association APSOLUTNO conducting an investigation into the deaths of two transoceanic liners under suspicious circumstances.
Absolutely Dead

An experimental work based on the writings of prominent Yugoslav Dadaists.
The Last Dada Performance

An experimental work consisting of close-ups of eyes in motion.
The Eyewitness

During the 1996/97 protests in Serbia a group of 200 students walked from Novi Sad to Belgrade to support students and citizens of the capital. A photobook by the same name, with photos from the same protests was published in 2016.
Putting Our Best Foot Forward
An exhibition at cinema Rex in Belgrade.
A Look at the Wall
Documentary about a Hungarian police sergeant who saved people of village Kovilj during the 1942 raid.