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The Fatal Thirst 

Directed by Vlada Petric and Ljubomir Radicevic

Wall of Memories

Directed by Vlada Petric with Antony Flackett
Free for Harvard Film Archive members
Director in Person
$12 Special Event Tickets

Renowned film scholar and founding curator of the Harvard Film Archive from 1979 to 1998, Vlada Petric presents two film and video works that bracket his long and extraordinarily active Harvard years.

PROGRAM

  • The Fatal Thirst  (Kobna Zedj)

    Directed by Vlada Petric and Ljubomir Radicevic.
    With Ljuba Tadic.
    Yugoslavia, 1957, 35mm, black & white, 16 min.
    Serbo-Croatian with English subtitles.

One of Petric’s first filmmaking experiences, this government-commissioned experimental short warns about the dangers of alcohol, using a jazz score and minimal dialogue to capture the strange kineticism of a dipsomaniac’s final moments.

  • Wall of Memories (excerpt)

    Directed by Vlada Petric with Antony Flackett.
    US, 2002, digital video, color, 90 min.

During his twenty-five years teaching and curating at Harvard, Petric amassed thousands of images that reflect his passionate pursuit of "cinematic artifacts." Made in collaboration with video artist Anthony Flackett, Wall of Memories uses an essay form to offer both a reflection on Petric’s theory of film aesthetics and a nostalgic examination of a life devoted to cinema. Petric will screen selected sequences from this four-hour long work.

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