EXHIBITION: GEFF 63 – 69

OPENING: 11/12/2025, 19.00, MSU, Black Box

A retrospective exhibition dedicated to the Genre Film Festival (GEFF), the first experimental film festival in the former Yugoslavia and the Eastern European space and one of the key places for forming structural film, conceptual art and broader avant-garde tendencies of the 1960s.

GEFF brought together authors and intellectuals from various fields – film, visual arts, philosophy, criticism, science, and design. Leading artists and intellectuals of that period participated in his juries, programs and discussions, among them: Dusan Makavejev, Vatroslav Mimica, Aleksandar Saša Petrović, Danilo Pejović, Radoslav Putar, Aleksander Bassin, Josip Vanishta, Vjenceslav Richter and many others.

The exhibition seeks to reopen GEFF as a place of dialogue and research. Original Geff films will be presented to the audience, as well as a rich archive documentation: photographs, magazines, letters, scripts, posters, newspapers, newsletters, transcripts of conversations and other materials that testify to the layered history of the festival.

Artist Katalin Ladik will perform a multimedia performance Foreign Body / Foreign Substance in which she will communicate and comment on herself from the 1970s through video projection and live performances. of the century.

More: http://www.msu.hr/dogadanja/geff-63-69/1847.html

Illustration: Optional view of the world no. 4, Mišo Budisavljević, 1970