Islam
Overview
This short film is part of Karpo Aćimović Godina's experimental and documentary work in 1970s Yugoslav cinema. It extends his interest in regional identities, minorities, and the visual traces left by different cultures on Yugoslav territory. The film offers a journey through examples of architecture, decor, and objects related to Islamic tradition in the former Yugoslavia, such as mosques, ornamental elements, and calligraphy. It explores how this art is embedded in the region's history and in the daily lives of the communities that produced it. It is an observational film, without a dramatic plot, functioning primarily as a "visual essay" on the material culture of Islam in a Balkan context. The tone is analytical and contemplative, closer to a cultural study or a poetic inventory.
Release date
29/01/1973
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Original Soundtrack
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Tramuntana
The new cinema
Jo
Six Unkind Silences
ACIdRAPTURE ZEBRA
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Beneath the Concrete, The Forest
My Courtyard
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Telegramas desde el campo de batalla
G(ode)ard
Damp Moss
Urbanisation
Sistine Chapel
Lurching
Sirens 77 True Love
The Princess and the Peacock
Interchange
Congregation
winter, my words immure