ALEKSANDAR KOSTIC
IS A NEW YORK CITY–BASED, SERBIAN-BORN FILMMAKER WHO CREATES FILMS EXPLORING PERCEPTION, MEMORY, CONSCIOUSNESS, AND THE UNSEEN FORCES THAT SHAPE HUMAN EXPERIENCE.
CAPIO
ARTSANITY
PARALLEL DREAMS
ALLURE
PERSISTENCE OF MEMORY
JOURNEY
A TOMB FOR BORIS DAVIDOVICH
THE WORLD OF VIJA VETRA
ROOM – SHORT FILM
WALK OF LIFE
“….a surreal vision of a society losing touch with memory, empathy, and reality itself — a meditation on what happens when our tools begin to own us…”
“…Aleksandar Kostic, who turns New York City into a dreamy melting pot of conflict and yearning.”
“…Aleksandar Kostic’s roving camerawork and grainy, black-and-white cinematography, though the camera’s agile movements often prove more kinetic and engaging…”
“…boasting striking black-and-white, widescreen cinematography by Aleksandar Kostic.”
“…women’s experiences have been strikingly captured by cinematographer Aleksandar Kostic in silvery black-and-white CinemaScope”
His award-winning feature film CAPIO is a sci-fi psychological thriller that explores how technological progress and unchecked corporate influence gradually reshape perception, human connection, privacy, freedom, and our relationship with the natural world. Through themes of manipulation, digital dependency, and human vulnerability, the film examines the consequences of a society increasingly disconnected from itself. CAPIO received the Outstanding Achievement in Speculative Fiction Award at the Queens World Film Festival and earned a 9.5/10 review score from Film Threat.
Kostic’s distinctive visual style has been recognized by The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and The Hollywood Reporter for his work on the feature film Allure. He has also worked on several documentary projects with Marina Abramović, as well as with former United Nations Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar and CBGB founder Hilly Kristal.
His feature documentary The World of Vija Vetra chronicles the life and artistic journey of renowned Latvian dancer and choreographer Vija Vetra, reflecting Kostic’s early fascination with the relationship between art, identity, memory, and the human spirit.
His experimental film Persistence of Memory, featuring an original score by Joan La Barbara, premiered at the opening of the MaerzMusik Festival in Berlin, Germany, as part of Cage and Consequences, celebrating the 100th anniversary of John Cage’s birth. Inspired by the collaborative philosophy of John Cage and Merce Cunningham, the film and music were created independently and experienced together for the first time during the live premiere.
His work has screened internationally at venues and festivals including the PÖFF Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, the Museum of the Moving Image, the Queens World Film Festival, the Philip K. Dick Film Festival, the MaerzMusik Festival Berlin, Anthology Film Archives, and others.
As founder of Kostic Films, LLC, Aleksandar has directed, filmed, produced, and overseen post-production on hundreds of commercial, documentary, music video, educational, corporate, and branded content productions. His multidisciplinary approach allows him to guide projects from development through distribution while maintaining a singular creative vision and a cinematic approach to storytelling.
Aleksandar is currently developing new feature films that continue his exploration of perception, memory, technology, and the unseen dimensions of human experience.