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Zvezda (cinema)
Novi Bioskop Zvezda is a squatted cinema in Belgrade, Serbia. Built in 1911, it is the oldest cinema in the city. After a period of dereliction, it was occupied in 2014 by the Movement for the Occupation of Cinemas. The squatters received international support and a documentary was released in 2018 about the occupation. History The cinema opened as the Koloseum, with an Art Nouveau frontage. Built in 1911, it is the oldest in Belgrade. Under the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia it was renamed as the Star ( Serbian: Zvezda). Zvezda was owned by the state-run company Beograd Film but was sold off to derivatives trader Nikola Djivanovic in 2007. He flipped it to an equity investor, Lantern International, and the cinema was closed down. Although the terms of the contract had specified that the cinema should stay open, this clause was ignored. In 2012, Djivanovic was convicted to two years in prison on various charges. After years of dereliction, the cinema was squatted by ...
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Squatted
Squatting is the action of occupying an abandoned or unoccupied area of land or a building, usually residential, that the squatter does not own, rent or otherwise have lawful permission to use. The United Nations estimated in 2003 that there were one billion slum residents and squatters globally. Squatting occurs worldwide and tends to occur when people who are poor and homeless find empty buildings or land to occupy for housing. It has a long history, broken down by country below. In developing countries and least developed countries, shanty towns often begin as squatted settlements. In African cities such as Lagos much of the population lives in slums. There are pavement dwellers in India and in Hong Kong as well as rooftop slums. Informal settlements in Latin America are known by names such as villa miseria (Argentina), pueblos jóvenes (Peru) and asentamientos irregulares (Guatemala, Uruguay). In Brazil, there are favelas in the major cities and land-based movements. I ...
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Alain Badiou
Alain Badiou (; ; born 17 January 1937) is a French philosopher, formerly chair of Philosophy at the École normale supérieure (ENS) and founder of the faculty of Philosophy of the Université de Paris VIII with Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault and Jean-François Lyotard. Badiou has written about the concepts of being, truth, event and the subject in a way that, he claims, is neither postmodern nor simply a repetition of modernity. Badiou has been involved in a number of political organisations, and regularly comments on political events. Badiou argues for a return of communism as a political force. Biography Badiou is the son of the mathematician (1905–1996), who was a working member of the Resistance in France during World War II. Alain Badiou was a student at the Lycée Louis-Le-Grand and then the École Normale Supérieure (1955–1960). In 1960, he wrote his ' (roughly equivalent to an MA thesis) on Spinoza for Georges Canguilhem (the topic was "Demonstrative Stru ...
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1911 Establishments In Serbia
A notable ongoing event was the Comparison of the Amundsen and Scott Expeditions, race for the South Pole. Events January * January 1 – A decade after federation, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory are added to the Commonwealth of Australia. * January 3 ** 1911 Kebin earthquake: An earthquake of 7.7 Moment magnitude scale, moment magnitude strikes near Almaty in Russian Turkestan, killing 450 or more people. ** Siege of Sidney Street in London: Two Latvian people, Latvian anarchists die, after a seven-hour siege against a combined police and military force. Home Secretary Winston Churchill arrives to oversee events. * January 5 – Egypt's Zamalek SC is founded as a general sports and Association football club by Belgian lawyer George Merzbach as Qasr El Nile Club. * January 14 – Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition makes landfall, on the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf. * January 18 – Eugene B. El ...
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Squats
Squat, squatter or squatting may refer to: Body position * Squatting position, a sitting position where one's knees are folded with heels touching one's buttocks or back of the thighs * Squat (exercise), a lower-body exercise in strength and conditioning Computing and the Internet * Cybersquatting, refers to registering Internet domain names similar to popular trademarks with the intent to extort the trademark holder * Squatting attack, a kind of computer attack Law and property *Squatting, the occupation of abandoned or unused building without the permission of the owner *Squatting (Australian history), historical Australian term referring to settlers occupying Aboriginal land in order to graze livestock Media and entertainment * Squat, a species of Flanimal from the ''More Flanimals'' and other books in the series * Squat, the alternate name of the title character of Scott Adams' comic '' Plop: The Hairless Elbonian'' * Squat dance, Slavic folk dance * Squats (song), a ...
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Cinemas In Serbia
A movie theater (American English), cinema (British English), or cinema hall (Indian English), also known as a movie house, picture house, the movies, the pictures, picture theater, the silver screen, the big screen, or simply theater is a building that contains auditoria for viewing films (also called movies) for entertainment. Most, but not all, movie theaters are commercial operations catering to the general public, who attend by purchasing a ticket. The film is projected with a movie projector onto a large projection screen at the front of the auditorium while the dialogue, sounds, and music are played through a number of wall-mounted speakers. Since the 1970s, subwoofers have been used for low-pitched sounds. Since the 2010s, the majority of movie theaters have been equipped for Digital cinema#Digital projection, digital cinema projection, removing the need to create and transport a physical film stock#Intermediate and print stocks, film print on a heavy reel. A great ...
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Outdoor Cinema
An outdoor cinema consists of a digital or analog movie projector, scaffolded construction or inflatable movie screen, and sound system. History Outdoor cinemas first began at around 1916 in Berlin, Germany. During the 1920s, many "rooftop theatres" converted to cinema use. One example of this was the Loew's New York, located on Times Square. Viewers usually sit on camping chairs or blankets. Some Hollywood world premieres were screened in outdoor cinemas – sometimes with the stars in attendance. Most screenings are free with some raising money for charities. As projector prices have decreased, guerrilla style outdoor cinemas have become more common. These are run on a very small budget by groups of amateurs. The events commonly are organised online; participants then meet in parks, empty parking lots, or other public places. Guerrilla outdoor cinemas are very basic, often needing to be completely set up and dismantled in a single night. Sheets, portable screens, or existing ...
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Squatting In Serbia
Squatting in Serbia refers to the unauthorised occupation of land or buildings. Following World War I, shanty towns emerged in the mostly demolished capital Belgrade, the most notable example being Jatagan Mala. The population of Belgrade rose from 593,000 in 1953 to 1,470,000 in 1981. Between 1961 and 1971, 52% of all private construction of houses in Belgrade was illegal. The percentage was also high in other cities such as Novi Sad and Smederevo. The reasons for squatting and illegal construction were the lack of affordable housing, bad governance and the bureaucracy involved in legalising land clams. Also the punishments were light. Squatting has come to refer to either Romani people occupying buildings or shacks built as second homes in suburban areas. A large Romani settlement called Cardboard city ( Serbian: Картон сити, Karton siti) was evicted in 2009. In Belgrade there have also been explicitly political self-managed social centres such as Rebel House, AKC Ak ...
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South East European Film Festival
The South East European Film Festival, also known as SEEfest, is an annual (non-profit) film festival held during the first week of May in various venues throughout Los Angeles, California. The festival presents feature films, documentaries and shorts produced in or thematically related to South East Europe and the Caucasus. The annual film festival includes a business conference, year-round screenings and programs, all showcasing the cultural diversity of South East Europe through themes, stories and visual artistry. It seeks to establish intercultural connections between artistic communities in the United States and South East Europe. Awards Awards are given in the following categories at the conclusion of the festival: * Best Feature Film * Best Cinematography in a Feature Film * Best Debut Feature * Best Documentary Film * Best Cinematography in a Documentary Film * Best Short Fiction * Best Short Documentary * Best Animation Short * Audience Award for Best Narrative Film * Au ...
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Dušan Makavejev
Dušan Makavejev ( sr-Cyrl, Душан Макавејев, ; 13 October 1932 – 25 January 2019) was a Serbian film director and screenwriter, famous for his groundbreaking films of Yugoslav cinema in the late 1960s and early 1970s—many of which belong to the Black Wave. Makavejev's most internationally successful film was the 1971 political satire '' W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism'', which he both directed and wrote. Career Makavejev's first three feature films, ''Man Is Not a Bird'' (1965, starring actress and icon of the " Black Wave" period in film, Milena Dravić), '' Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator'' (1967, starring actress and icon of the "Black Wave" period in film, Eva Ras) and '' Innocence Unprotected'' (1968), all won him international acclaim. The last-mentioned won the Silver Bear Extraordinary Prize of the Jury at the 18th Berlin International Film Festival. In 1970 he was a member of the jury at the 20th Berlin International F ...
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Innocence Unprotected
''Innocence Unprotected'' is a compilation film by Yugoslav director Dušan Makavejev. Makavejev's film is based on the 1941 film ''Nevinost bez zaštite'' in Serbia by Dragoljub Aleksić that was never released. In 1968, Makavejev established the film and expanded it with newsreel footage and interviews with surviving cast members. Production ''Innocence Unprotected'' is composed of footage of the 1941 film of the same name. ''Innocence Unprotected'' was originally filmed in 1941 under the title ''Nevinost bez zaštite'' which was meant to be the first sound feature film made in Serbia. ''Nevinost bez zaštite'' was made by the Yugoslav gymnast Dragoljub Aleksić, who wrote, produced, directed, and starred in the film. ''Nevinost bez zaštite'' was never released due to the Nazi censors while ironically later during the Yugoslav communist period some accused and condemned it as being pro-Nazi. In 1968 filmmaker Dušan Makavejev found the film and expanded upon it with newsreel ...
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Srećko Horvat
Srećko Horvat (born 28 February 1983) is a Croatian philosopher, author and political activist. The German weekly ''Der Freitag'' called him "one of the most exciting voices of his generation" and he has been described as a "fiery voice of dissent in the Post-Yugoslav landscape". His writing has appeared in ''The Guardian'', Al Jazeera, ''Der Spiegel'', ''Jacobin (magazine), Jacobin'', ''Newsweek'' and ''The New York Times''. Life Horvat was born in Osijek, Croatia but lived for the first eight years of his life in Germany before returning to Croatia in 1991. After returning to Croatia, he was involved in the Hardcore punk, hardcore punk scene of the 1990s, graduated philosophy and general linguistics at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb, started writing for Croatian magazines such as ''Zarez'' and, prior to his twenty-sixth birthday, published two books, ''Protiv političke korektnosti'' (''Against Political Correctness'') and ''Znakovi postmodernog grada'' (''Signs of the Post ...
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Belgrade
Belgrade ( , ;, ; Names of European cities in different languages: B, names in other languages) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Serbia, largest city in Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers and the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin, Pannonian Plain and the Balkan Peninsula. Nearly 1,166,763 million people live within the administrative limits of the City of Belgrade. It is the third largest of all List of cities and towns on Danube river, cities on the Danube river. Belgrade is one of the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest continuously inhabited cities in Europe and the world. One of the most important prehistoric cultures of Europe, the Vinča culture, evolved within the Belgrade area in the 6th millennium BC. In antiquity, Thracians, Thraco-Dacians inhabited the region and, after 279 BC, Celts settled the city, naming it ''Singidunum, Singidūn''. It was Roman Serbia, conquered by the Romans under the reign ...
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