Church of Film is a weekly film series dedicated to the strange, lost and overlooked treasures of cinema past. Researched, compiled, and curated by Muriel. Screenings most Wednesday nights at the Clinton Street Theater.
Upcoming Church of Film Screenings
Events
AND LOVE VANISHED (1961) (Church of Film)
Jovana and Mirko meet by chance at an outdoor cinema in Belgrade and end up caught in the rain. Their encounter leads to a fraught courtship, a giddy and breathless love, a relationship, and at last, disillusionment.
DRAGAN NIKOLIC DOUBLE FEATURE: YOUNG & HEALTHY AS A ROSE (1971) + BUGS IN THE HEAD (1971) (Church of Film)
DRAGAN NIKOLIC DOUBLE FEATURE! YOUNG & HEALTHY AS A ROSE is a film maudit par excellence of the Yugoslav New Wave, part homage to Godard, part Wild in the Streets, and a shocking portent of things to come. BUGS IN THE HEAD was a counter-culture manifesto by one of Yugoslavia's great punk talents, Misa Radivojevic, a youth culture statement decrying consumerism and conformity in brilliant colors and a dreamy haze.
LIFE OF A SHOCK FORCE WORKER (1972) (Church of Film)
In the aftermath of war, Adem, a Bosnian coal miner, is swept by the optimism of industrialization and the sloganeering in Yugoslavia's brief Stalinist period. His shock force brigade becomes the best in the country, maybe the world, and he finds himself unwittingly a major celebrity.
OCCUPATION IN 26 PICTURES (1976) (Church of Film)
Three youths, a Croat, Italian and Jew, are inseparable friends in Dubrovnik as war looms. When their country is taken over by Fascist Italy and Germany, their friendship is fractured as sides are taken, and their sleepy city turns into a carnival of debauchery and slaughter.
A HOLY PLACE (1990) (Church of Film)
A Serbian monk, Toma, meets a witch on a dark and stormy night—and kills her. Her father summons Toma to fulfill his daughter's last wish: that Toma pray over her body for three nights.