Aleksandar Davić
Biography
Aleksandar Davić was a Serbian film director and screenwriter. His works examined avant-garde and neoavant-garde artistic practices. He graduated in film and theater directing at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad. He directed music and experimental video works and documentaries, and many music videos for popular Yugoslav rock bands. His feature film "The Party" won the award for the best screenplay in Serbia in 2005. He was a professor at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad and a professor of digital video at the Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Arts in Belgrade.
Known For & Full Filmography5 Titles
Movie - 1994, 2h 15m • as Turbo D.
An experimental film about an art group trying to get their works across the border to Slovenia during the economical and cultural blockade of Yugoslavia in 1993.
Movie - 1993, 2h 15m • as Dealer
A Red Army major caught between East and West Berlin finds his wife gone and somebody else moved into his apartment.
Movie - 2009, 2h 15m • as Himself
A documentary about Novi Sad’s rock band Boye, which in the early 80s gave life to female spirit in Yugoslavia’s r’n’r music, fully aware of the type of music they chose, managed to position themselves on, up to then exclusively “male” scene and forced themselves as the original occurrences.
Movie - 2009, 2h 15m • as Novinar
A surreal satire about a philosophy student who takes a job as a gravedigger while suffering an existential crisis.
Movie - 2012, 2h 15m • as Otac
A story about an unusual break-up.