
Marko Babac
Directing
Biography
Marko Babac was a Serbian film critic, editor and director. Babac was born on March 9, 1935 in Zemun, Serbia, Yugoslavia. He was an editor and director, known for Kapi, vode, ratnici (1962), Grad (1963) and Čežnja (1958). He died on July 12, 2014 in Belgrade, Serbia.
Known For

A young woman tries to make love to a park statue, but despite her passionate efforts, the monument remains cold and heartless. "Don’t Believe in Monuments" is an early short, where Makavejev subtly ridicules Yugoslav state-sponsored monument and history worship.
Don't Believe in Monuments

Scourged by the need to be different from his contemporaries and driven by an insatiable hunger for adventurous living, Marko, a young man of 25, returns from America where he has spent a few years. He wants to impress people in his native town, but eventually everything turns against him.
The Rogue

The new misadventures of single mother Svetlana, her 12 year old son and (still) part-time worker Siniša. Siniša's plans to marry Svetlana are ruined when her ex-husband comes back from Germany, persuading her to start their new life together.
My Part-Time Dad

Three stories (Love, Heart, The Hoop) set in the urban, alienated world of a big city. It tells how thin is the line between melancholy and depression.
The City

Filmed in Belgrade in 1962, Parade documents the city’s engagement with the annual May Day celebration by largely ignoring the formal procession. Instead, Dušan Makavejev records the informal moments surrounding it: workers, officials, wanderers, and organizers negotiating space, hierarchy, and appearance. Shot with a detached, humorous eye, the film assembles a mosaic of everyday behavior that reveals the contrast between official ceremony and lived social reality.
Parade

A three-part omnibus consisting of Kino Klub amateurs' work: Zivojin Pavlovic's dialogue-free "Live Waters" set in 1943, Marko Babac's "Warriors" about psychological look at the two patients in a hospital room, as well as Kokan Rakonjac's "Raindrops" about alcoholic's decaying relationship with his girlfriend.
Raindrops, Waters, Warriors

Three young delinquents, two boys and a girl - go through their personal drama alongside wrongdoings they do. The local chief inspector gives his best to help them, besides the fact that he's beholden to arrest them.
Shoot and It Shall Open
Inspired by the 1928 experimental film by Robert Florey and Slavko Vorkapich, The Life and Death of 9413, a Hollywood Extra, this amateur short is the story of a man who spends his entire life under the thumb of anonymous bureaucrats. The titular seal adorns everything in life, from birth to death, in a criticism of bureaucracy and power over the individual, in a film that makes stylistic references to silent cinema.
The Seal

A surgeon torn between his family and mistress sees his upcoming promotion as a salvation from midlife crisis.
Sunday Lunch

A kleptomaniac banker, in conflict with his conscience, wonders whether or not he can steal the contents of a safe deposit box.
One Potato, Two Potato

First five minutes of the film show a weird fellow who is playing marbles with kids and seems to be just biding his time. Film after the titles continues to follow his adventures as his love story unfolds. A love story between him and a doll in a window shop.
Anthony's Broken Mirror

Grandma, disturbed by her grandchildren, decides to tell them about the adventures of Comrade Snow White.
Educational Fairy Tale
This short doc is about changes occurring in Yugoslav rural life as it begins to reap the benefits of motorization, e.g. delivering fruits and veggies to market by automobile, but with a bitter theme: progress is set against horses sent to the slaughter as the car becomes the new domestic animal replacing the animals that had hitherto worked for man.
New Domestic Animal

A comedy of everyday life problems of a "temporary" teacher who leads a very "temporary" life. For ten years, he temporarily lives with his married sister in a cramped, one-room apartment in which, his brother's-in-law sister also temporarily lives. He has a diploma, but not a steady job. He's a school teacher for a definite period of time with a "temporary" status. At the mean time, a boy who lives alone with his mother goes to the same school. He wants to have a father by his own choice, not his mother's. It seems that the teacher suits most of the boy's idea of a father. And the boy gains what he always wants.
Part-Time Work
Short by Makavejev.
Film About a Book

As children, a Mozambique native and a Portuguese colonialist were friends. Years have passed and Mozambique is fighting for its independence. Two childhood friends meet on opposing sides.
Time of the Leopards

Illustrations of human conscience in animated and real scenes.
A Stain on His Conscience

Sarcastic look at a 1962 Yugoslav beauty contest.
Miss Beauty 62
Short by Makavejev.
New Toy
Short by Marko Babac.