June 28th 2026

An open lecture on the legacy of film culture in socialist Yugoslavia will be held on 29 June at 6:00 p.m. in lecture hall 421 at the Faculty of Media and Communication. The lecturer, Megan Barker, is a cultural anthropologist and professor from University College London. She will consider the role which socialist Yugoslavia played in fostering the establishment of film clubs throughout the country, making access to filmmaking more readily available to everyday citizens, and how this, in turn, lead to an expansion of experimental film in the country.

Professor Barker will also give a short introduction into the history of film clubs in the region, followed by an overview of the ethnographic fieldwork research she had conducted in Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and the surrounding countries during the last few years through a series of workshops, film festivals and through conversations with amateur and professional filmmakers. This lecture has been organized with the support of Kinopravda Institute.