The famous Museum of Contemporary Art in New York (MoMA) will hold a retrospective of the films of the Yugoslav “Black Wave” from September 7th to 21st, 2023, under the title “Black Wave to White Ray: Yugoslav Film of the 1960s”.
On that occasion, fifteen films selected by Mina Radović, a film historian and one of the organizers of the exhibition, will be shown. Among the selected films are key works by Serbian filmmakers who created during that period, including Dušan Makavejev, Živojin Pavlović and Aleksandar Petrović.
As part of the retrospective, the films Three by Aleksandar Petrović, Monday or Tuesday by Vatroslav Mimica, Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator by Dušan Makavejev, Dancing in the Rain by Boštjan Hladnik, Noon by Puriša Đorđević, When I Am Dead and Pale by Živojin Pavlović, The Feast by Đorđe Kadijević, I Even Met Happy Gypsies by Aleksandar Petrović, Memento by D. Osmani, The Swarm by Miodrag Popović, Playing Soldiers by Bahrudin Čengić, Strange Girl by Jovan Živanović, City by Marko Babac, Živojin Pavlović and Kokan Rakonjec, Don’t Come Back the Same Way by J. Babič and Holy Sand by Miroslav Antić.
“Black Wave” is the name of a tendency on the Yugoslav cultural and political scene in the period of the 1960s and early 1970s and it is related to the works of artists, who were characterized by the authorities at the time as critical of the official socialist order and society.