As part of the lecture series “New Views, Perspectives and Research on Gender Theory”, the Study Research Group for Gender Equality and Public Policy of the Institute of Social Sciences, on 17 March Dr. Ivana Kronja gave the online lecture on “Strategies for Representing Bodies, Gender and Identity in Aesthetic and Aesthetic Film Aesthetics”. Dr. Kronja presented a multidisciplinary academic approach to avant-garde cinema history and aesthetics, focusing upon cultural and gender representations within the experimental film genre. Avant-garde film, as a powerful parallel flow in relation to the history of mainstream film, stood out as a corpus of works and artistic determinations that builds its own tradition. The analysis of Dr. Kronja showed that avant-garde film art in its early expression in the 1920s thematized the body and sexuality as independent film content – as an abstract pictorial representation, poetic symbol and materialization of the content of the unconscious.
Fifteen researchers and members of the Center for Women’s Studies from Belgrade, Women’s Studies from Novi Sad, the OSCE, the office of the Commissioner for the Protection of Equality, the Institute of Social Sciences and gender equality experts participated in this event.
