June 30th 2025
Anthology Film Archives, a center for the preservation, study and exhibition of film art in New York, has announced the six-part series Interceptions: Yugoslavia in the Image World, which will endeavor to interrogate the cinematic legacy of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia through the lens of “the image world”. Presented from July 18 to July 21, the series will cover a broad gamut of genres and styles that flourished in Yugoslavia and its successor states. The program revisits Harvard Film Archive’s program Yugoslav Junction, which was held in November 2024.
The work of Vlada Petrić has been included in the third program of this series, “The Animated Unconscious,” with Light Play: A Tribute to Moholy-Nagy. Based on László Moholy-Nagy’s 1930 kinetic piece Light Modulator, Petrić applied Dziga Vertov’s novel theories of the interval and montage to reinterpret the work, creating a psychedelic and unparalleled jewel of cine-pyrotechnics that centers light and motion as the main carriers of the film’s meaning.
This rarely-screened gem of experimental film, completed in 1988, is available for preview as a digital file through the Kinopravda Institute distribution program. The 16mm print is held at Harvard Film Archive. For more information on works by Vlada Petrić and for inquiries about rentals, please contact us at → [email protected]