As part of the retrospective exhibition "GEFF 1963 - 1969: from anti-film to black wave“ in the Black Box of the MSU, the Croatian Film Association, the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Tomislav Gotovac Institute are organizing a two-day symposium in Gorgona Hall, which brings together art and film historians/theoreticians, film artists and media researchers from the country and abroad. The aim of the symposium is to determine – from today's perspective and with a gap of several decades – the significance of the Genre Film Festival in the context of Croatian, regional and European culture and to value its heritage. Like the exhibition it relies on, the symposium will be an opportunity to highlight lesser-known fragments of GEFF manifestations, to analyse and synthesise, and to exchange and confront views on GEFF as an essential component of both global and local research art and culture of the 1960s.
Participants: Dalibor Barić (Croatia), Greg De Cuir Jr. (Serbia, USA), Dalibor Davidović (Croatia), Josip Klaić (Croatia), Vladislav Knežević (Croatia), Marijan Krivak (Croatia), Ivana Kronja (Serbia), Željko Luketić (Croatia), Jelena Mihelčić (Croatia), Suzana Marjanić (Croatia), Matthias Meindl (Switzerland), Diana Nenadić (Croatia), Luka Savić (Slovenia), Aleksandra Sekulić (Serbia), Darko Šimičić (Croatia), Miško Šuvaković (Serbia), Hrvoje Turković (Croatia), Tanja Vrvilo (Croatia).
PROGRAM
Thursday February 12, 2026
10.00 - 10.10 am
Martina Munivrana, Museum Advisor at the Museum of Contemporary Art
Welcome greeting
Panel 1: FRAMES, INTERSECTIONS, PARALLELS
10.10 - 10.30 Diana Nenadić
Introduction
10.30 - 10.50 Miško Šuvaković (online presentation)
To be outside: neo-avant-garde, experimental, and expended art practices
10.50 - 11.10 Greg De Cuir Jr.
The fractured history of avant-garde film festivals
11.10 - 11.30 Marijan Krivak
Anti-painting, anti-film… Pro ars.
11.30 - 11.50 Discussion (Moderator: Diana Nenadić)
11.50 - 12.20 Coffee break
Panel 2: CONCEPTS AND POETICS
Moderator: Greg De Cuir Jr.
12.20 - 12.40 Vladislav Knežević
Fast forward looking backwards (presentation)
12.40 - 13.00 Hrvoje Turković
Making fun of anti-film is also an anti-film
13.00 - 13.20 Željko Luketić
GEFF and Zagreb School of Animated Film
13.20 - 13.40 Tanja Vrvilo
The Exaltation of Matter: The GEFF's Anti-Film Curation
14.00 - 14.20 Discussion
14.20 - 15.20 lunch break
Panel 3: BEYOND A FILM, BETWEEN DISCIPLINES
Moderator: Jelena Pašić
15.20 - 15.40 Darko Šimičić
The parallel pratices: Fluxus and atnifilm
15.40 - 16.00 Dalibor Davidović
Listening to the GEFF
16.00 - 16.20 Josip Klaić
Gorgona: Tin-Tom
16.20 - 16.40 Discussion
Optional
17.00 - 18.00 Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb
guided tour of the MSU permanent display "Collection as a Verb"
20.00 - 21.30, Kulturno informativni centar (Preradovićeva 5)
„GEFF Footnotes“ program.
Screening of a documentary Exprmntl 4 Knokke, Claudia von Alemann, 1967
with an introductory interview with Greg De Cuir Jr.
Friday February 13, 2026
Panel 4: TO PLAY BY ALL MEANS
10.30 - 10.40 Darko Šimičić
Introduction
10.40 - 11.00 Suzana Marjanić
Playing and freedom – homo ludens and homo liber
11.00 - 11.20 Luka Savić
OHO group at GEFF festivals
11.20 - 11.40 Jelena Mihelčić
How Vera Maletić choreographed with the camera
11.40 - 12.00 Dalibor Barić
Depth Department: Artificial intelligence and research on film
12.00 - 12.20 Discussion (Moderator: Darko Šimičić)
12.20 - 12.40 coffee break
Panel 5: LESSONS IN FREEDOM
Moderator: Željko Luketić
12.40 - 13.00 Matthias Meindl
Eroticism and socialist humanism
13.00 - 13.20 Ivana Kronja
Female experimental filmakers at GEFF festivals
13.20 - 13.40 Aleksandra Sekulić
Film as a play in the Low Fi Video movement – the legacy of emancipation in the 1960s
13.40 - 14.00 Discussion
14.40 lunch
More information about the presenters, as well as lecture summaries, you can download here.
The symposium is held with the support of the Croatian Audiovisual Center and the City of Zagreb.
