The Zagreb Fair on Film
at 8pm
Lecturer: Sonja Leboš
The lecture will cover various aspects of film production that took place at the Zagreb Fair, as well as the representation of the Zagreb Fair on film in various genres: from documentary (industrial, propaganda, educational) to feature films in the period from 1956 to 1979. These will be films by Hajrudin Krvavac, Frano Vodopivec, Branko Bauer, the first and only film by filmologist Ante Peterlić, etc.
About author
Sonja Leboš, Ph.D., defended her doctoral thesis under the title “City on Film, Film in the City: Zagreb 1941-1991, cultural-anthropological perspective” in November 2022. Cultural anthropologist, expert in cultural tourism, and art educator. She also studied set design and architecture in Prague and Zagreb. Her activities are in the domain of cultural and urban studies, education and production in culture and art, visual and urban anthropology, and discourse analysis, while her artistic, curatorial, and scientific work tends to merge the liminal fields of narrative urbanism and visual arts, design, theory and practice of performativity, film, and new media.
