
Frame for a Few Poses, Episodes 4 - 6
(Ram za nekoliko poza)
Yugoslavia, 1976, digital video, color, 90 min.
BCMS with English subtitles.
Copy source: Slovenian Cinematheque
In 1975, Karpo Godina traveled to Vojvodina (northern Serbia) and captured several dozen residents of local villages and farms on color 16mm film. These were individuals who had artistic, musical or technological crafts and skills to perform for the camera: from choral singers and amateur potters to carvers of sophisticated wooden instruments. Frame for a Few Poses is a six-episode documentary financed by the entertainment division of Belgrade TV, in which Godina—without explicit commentary or voiceover—records a vibrant constellation of folk ingenuity and imagination within a particular geographic region. (Yugoslavia’s Got Talent could be a fitting alternative title.) Yet the film is also a synecdoche of Socialist Yugoslavia itself: a miniature of the country’s ethnic, linguistic and religious diversity. This respectful and endlessly hilarious tribute to the inexhaustible energy of human (and not merely national or ethnoparticular) creativity has recently been preserved by the Slovenian Cinematheque in collaboration with Serbian and Slovene TV. It will be shown here in two parts.