In conjunction with Gallery 406: Invitation: Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, MoMA presents a special screening of animated short films and a conversation featuring artist Tiffany Sia and scholar Nace Zavrl, with curator Ana Janevski. Several of these shorts were shown for the first time at MoMA in 1968, and this event marks an exciting return for these groundbreaking works.
The Zagreb School of Animated Film was founded in 1956, and was soon hailed for its avant-garde approach and visual experimentation. These animated works, produced by Zagreb Film, known for their bold visual style, satirical edge, and innovative techniques, have been gaining international recognition since their debut. In 1962, Dušan Vukotić received international acclaim for his short film Surogat (The Substitute), winner of the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film at the 34th Academy Awards.
This event is free, but RSVP is required.
Films
Don Kihot (Don Quixote). 1961. Directed by Vladimir Kristl
Igra (The Play). 1962. Directed by Dušan Vukotić
Peti (The Fifth). 1965. Directed by Pavao Štalter
Šagrenska koža (La Peau de chagrin). 1960. Directed by Vladimir Kristl, Ivo Vrbanić
Surogat (The Substitute). 1961. Directed by Dušan Vukotić
Tiffany Sia is an artist, filmmaker, and writer. Sia’s films have screened at the Toronto International Film Festival, New York Film Festival, and MoMA’s Doc Fortnight, among others. She has had solo exhibitions at Artists Space, New York; Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University; and the Mudam, Luxembourg. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at MoMA; Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College; Argo Factory: Pejman Foundation, Tehran; Seoul Museum of Art; Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf; and elsewhere. Sia is the author of On and Off-Screen Imaginaries (2024), a compendium of essays that makes a case for fugitive, exilic cinema moving beyond national identity and the politics of place as a critical lens. Her essays have appeared in Film Quarterly, October, and more. The recipient of the Baloise Art Prize in 2024, Sia has given talks at Dia Art Foundation, Stanford University, and Yale University, and has taught at Cooper Union.
Nace Zavrl is a PhD candidate in art, film, and visual studies at Harvard University, with a focus on Yugoslav experimental and documentary cinema. His writing has been published in Afterimage, Camera Austria, Slavic Review, and the Moving Image Review and Art Journal, as well as by the Slovenian Cinematheque. With Nikola Radić, he is co-editor of the forthcoming Archivism and Appropriation in Post-Yugoslav Cinema. Zavrl is an editor at Senses of Cinema, a senior instructor at the Academy of Visual Arts Ljubljana, and a curatorial assistant at the Harvard Film Archive, where he curated the extensive 2024 retrospective The Yugoslav Junction: Film and Internationalism in the SFRY, 1957–1988. He has also curated programs at the City Art Museum in Ljubljana and Anthology Film Archives in New York City.
Accessibility
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All films are courtesy of the Zagreb Film Archive. Special thanks to Sanja Borčić and Vinko Brešan of Zagreb Film.
Support for this program is provided by The International Program of The Museum of Modern Art and the Trust for Mutual Understanding.
Major funding is provided by the Agnes Gund Education Endowment Fund for Public Programs, the Jeanne Thayer Young Scholars Fund, and the Annual Education Fund.