In the frame of the presentation you will see:

• The short documentary film about the festival Alternative Associations 2007, produced by the Academic Film Centre from Belgrade

  As well as, the selection of the most significant achievements on the festival:

• Galina Myznikova/Sergey Povorov: Slippery Mountain (Russia)
• Heli Sorjonen: Slow Down (Finland)
• David Wilson: A Kiss in a Shadow (USA)
• Chema Garcia Ibarra: Inverse Flashback (Spain)
• Nikola Ležajić: Boxer Goes To Heaven (Serbia)
• Sandra Isacsson: Girls Inferno (Sweden)
• Christos Massalas: Landscape of the Last Encounter (Greece)
• Tomaž Lapajne: My Life (Slovenia)

The Festival of Alternative Film and Video is held each year in the month of December in Belgrade (“Student’s city” Cultural Centre) in organisation of the Academic Film Centre.

Aiming to make better introduction of the festival, its development and activities the Academic Film Centre from Belgrade in 2008 realised the documentary film Alternative Associations 2007. This documentary presents interviews with eminent filmmakers that marked the development of the alternative film and video expression in ex. Yugoslavia as well as interviews with the international guests, jury commission and awarded authors on the last festival edition. 

With the projection of the documentary film Alternative Associations 2007 and the selection of the most significant achievements on ALTERNATIVE FILM/ VIDEO 2007 in front of the Macedonian audience, we are establishing continuity line in direction of promotion and presentation of the experimental and alternative film and video expression from the region and wider.

From 360 applied works by authors coming from all around the world, the selection comity chose 67 works from 22 countries. The selection of the most significant achievements of ALTERNAIVE FILM/ VIDEO 2007 was done by the three-member jury committee composed of: Ingrid Skovgaard (Denmark), Tim Shore (UK) and Slobodan Sijan (Serbia).

Alternative film/ video Festival was organized for the first time in 1982. In that time the initial idea was to document and define in theory the trends, values and new creative possibilities in the fields of alternative film and video in ex. Yugoslavia.

After more than a decade break (1991-2002) as a result of the war-political situation and breaking down of Yugoslav Federation, the festival was renewed in 2003 with intention to explore and reconstruct the image of the alternative film and video production on the territory of ex. Yugoslavia; identifying the urgency and necessity for reintegration and need of establishing the line of continuity in this sphere.

From 2006 the festival obtains an international character.

You can find more information about Alternative film/ video 2007 on the official web side of the festival:  www.alternativefilmvideo.org