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CAPIO – Feature Film

Capio movie

Directed, Cinematography, Written & Produced by Aleksandar Kostic

An amateur astronomer discovers a strange new star in the sky that leads him into the heart of a dark conspiracy to control humanity by exploiting its addiction to technology.

SYNOPSIS
Currently in post-production. “Capio” is both a science-fiction drama and social commentary, about a mysterious entity which manipulates with people and their hunger for new technology to enslave a city that is more than willing to submit. This feature film examines the impact of the unprecedented infiltration of AI technology into our daily lives and the extent to which it may be undermining our capacity to perceive and interact with the world and the people around us. It is the stark human isolation, induced by technology and its destructive consequences, that drive the main current of the feature film “Capio”.

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I KNOW – Music by David Lynch

– “I know” Featuring Delfine Bafort
https://player.vimeo.com/video/41617973

Good Day Today – Music by David Lynch

“Good Day Today” Featuring Delfine Bafort
https://player.vimeo.com/video/29233629

ALLURE

https://player.vimeo.com/video/74260540
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Produced & Cinematography by Aleksandar Kostic
Directed & Produced by Vladan Nikolic

As a passionate filmmaker I love exploring and communicating with people through my cinematography.
Allure is a process-driven film, where filmmakers and performers (actors and non-actors) work together through a series of improvisations, character building, and discussions to flesh out the story and protagonists. The camera follows the characters. All dialogue is improvised, as the scene is worked through.
Inspired by true stories, ALLURE focuses on five women in NYC, who have come from different countries and settings. Each one struggles to overcome her personal conflict, set against the backdrop of world economical insecurity. These separate, but intersecting multi-ethnic storylines touch and inform each other, and create a larger narrative, about gender, emigration, power and class.

REVIEW:

“…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”

The World of Vija Vetra

https://player.vimeo.com/video/30036668
Video, 48 min, 2008

This documentary tells the fascinating story of Vija Vetra, a world-renowned Latvian dancer, choreographer and teacher. At the age of 84, Vetra remains a vital and creative force, and her tale offers inspiration for both artists and lovers of the arts. In a career spanning seven decades, she has mastered diverse styles ranging from ballet to traditional Indian dance, and her talent has won her acclaim as a ‘spirit in human form’ and ‘the bridge between East and West.’ Her life is a celebration of the power and beauty of the art of dance but is also a powerful story of struggle, loneliness and sacrifice.

FESTIVALS
– 2010 Silver ACE Award in Las Vegas Film Festival
– 2010 Included in library of Documentary Edge Resource Center   Auckland, NZ
– Screened at Asheville Film Festival  NC 2009
– Screened at Harvard Independent Film Group, NY 2008
– Screened at Docufest Atlanta  GA 2008
– NYC premier Two Boots Pioneer Theatre 2008
– Screened at Flickering @ Cornerstone Festival 2008

WEB SITE

A Tomb For Boris Davidovich – Short Film

https://player.vimeo.com/video/29561544

2011, Narated by Miki Manojlovic, HD, 3min

Danilo Kis (February 22, 1935-October 15, 1989) was a Yugoslavian author and poet whose work was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. This short film is inspired by Kis story, “A Tomb for Boris Davidovich”.

FESTIVALS:

– Screened at Festival Krokodil, Belgrade, Serbia 2011


Journey – Short Film

https://player.vimeo.com/video/46622378
HD, 5 min, 2012

The ghost of Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch returns to Greenwich House, the community settlement she founded over a century earlier and roams through the musical landscape that now thrives there.

FESTIVALS:
– Screened at Big Apple Film Festival New York, 2012

WEB SITE

Persistence of Memory – Experimental film

https://player.vimeo.com/video/137767660
This 30-minute video documents the live experience of “Persistence of Memory”.

HD, 30min, 2012

Experimental film “Persistence of Memory” with Joan La Barbara’s original music premiered in Berlin, Germany on the opening night of MaerzMusic festival 17. march 2012 “Cage and Vonsequences”, celebrating the 100th anniversary of John Cage’s birth, as part of the live performance by Joan La Barbara and Ne(x)tworks.

Joan La Barbara introduced me to the chance procedures idea, inspired by the collaboration process of composer John Cage and choreographer Merce Cunningham, to create an event in which the film and music would be produced separately and played and projected simultaneously for the first time on opening night in Berlin.

The only rules that Joan and I set before collaborating on this project were that the film and music should each have a duration of 30 minutes, and that I would not even hear Joan’s music nor Joan would see my film until the until the opening night.

To create this film I used natural materials, water, colors, deferent type of liquids, sand, trees, clouds, stars, lighting, walking and driving through NYC and improvised lenses. I wanted to create a film that will come from the real world that I experience.

Music Composed by Joan La Barbara, composer and publisher member ASCAP©2012 Joan La Barbara

Music Performed by Ne(x)tworks:

Joan La Barbara (voice)
Stephen Gosling (piano)
Shelley Burgon (harp & laptop)
Yves Dharamraj (cello)
Miguel Frasconi (glass, flute & laptop)
Ariana Kim (violin)
Christopher McIntyre (trombone)
Sound Direction:
Martin Supper
Assistant Sound Direction:
Thoma Koch

FESTIVALS:

– World premiere opening night of MaerzMusik festival, 2012, “Cage and Consequences”, Berlin, Germany

WEB SITE

Parallel Dreams – Short Film

https://player.vimeo.com/video/184449360
4K,  7min,  2015
“All that we see or seem but a dream within a dream” – Edgar Allan Poe
An artist Joseph Cornell immerses himself in the music of Debussy as he makes his art, watching his creation slowly come alive. At the same time, a dream is visiting Cornell, influencing his thoughts and decisions, and guiding him on how to complete his artwork. The experience leaves the viewer uncertain and unnerved about where the real world begins and ends. It’s almost as if there is a parallel universe mirroring our life on Earth — and it is the dream that spans over like a bridge connecting those universes.
“Sometimes when I wake up I don’t know if I am awake or I am still dreaming. My dreams appear so realistic that they leave me uncertain of where I exited them to enter the real world”- Aleksandar Kostic.
This film “Parallel Dreams” was made in between the original “Parallel Dreams” performances,and is made possible in part with public funds from the Manhattan Community Arts Fund, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, administered by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and donations from Materials for the Arts.
FESTIVALS:
– Screening KEW GARDENS FESTIVAL OF CINEMA, QUEENS, NEW YORK (2017).
– Screening QUEENS WORLD FILM FESTIVAL, in REDSTONE THEATRE at MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE, QUEENS, NEW YORK (2017).
– AWARD at BaNeFF STOCKHOLM SWEDEN, CATEGORY FOR EXPERIMENTAL FILM. (2016)
– Best Experimental Film Award at Chandler International Film Festival in Arizona. (2016)
*WATCH ABOUT PARALLEL DREAMS PERFORMANCE
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