Autumn Film School, International Colloquium of Film Theory

The Autumn Film School was launched in 1985 by Silvan Furlan, who at the time edited the EKRAN Magazine for Film and Television. French film theory (Comolli, Bonitzer, Chion, Deleuze) and Lacanian concepts had inspired the so-called Ljubljana Film School, involving theoreticians Slavoj Žižek, Zdenko Vrdlovec and Stojan Pelko, and regular annual meetings of this group at the Autumn Film School contributed to development of critical and theoretical writing on film. With the participation of foreign and domestic experts, up to 2002 the School had covered the following cinematic subjects: Author-Genre-Spectator, Editing, Films of the Eighties, Cinema and Literature, Film Comedy, Film Figures, Media and Identities, European National Cinematographies, Documentaries, How to Write a History of Cinema and Arts, Architecture and Film, Current Problems of ‘Third World Cinema’ and Digital Film.

In 2003 the School dealt with the subject of contemporary documentary film in the territories of the former Yugoslavia. A Croatian documentary film was accompanied by a lecture by producer Nenad Puhovski and film theoretician Hrvoje Turkovic. Documentaries from Serbia and Montenegro were presented by Saša Radojevic and film makers Momir Matovic and Želimir Žilnik. Productions from Bosnia and Herzegovina were presented by Amra Bakšic, a young producer and one of selectors of the Sarajevo Film Festival. Macedonian film was presented by publicist Peter Volnarovski. Dina Iordanova from Great Britain lectured on Cinema of Flames: Balkan Film, Culture and the Media.

After a pause the Autumn Film School was revived in 2006 by EKRAN and the Slovenian Cinematheque with a programme of lectures by Nil Baskar, Zdenko Vrdlovec, Dušan Rutar, Mitja Reichenberg, Melita Zajc and Simon Popek, on the subjects of Writing on Film and the State of Contemporary Film Criticism.

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