Tatjana Ivančić

Tatjana Ivančić was born in 1913 in Crikvenica-Dramalj. She went to high school at Sušak in Rijeka, and graduated from the Faculty of Law in Zagreb, where she obtained her doctorate. Although a doctor of law by profession, Ivančić started working in film relatively late, in her 50s. As an independent author, she worked within the framework of organized Yugoslav film amateurism, under the auspices of the Zagreb Cinema Club (Kinoklub Zagreb), and occasionally through the Studio Cinema Club (Kinoklub Studio), which she independently founded. From the end of the 1960s, she actively participated in amateur film festivals in Yugoslavia, where she became the first woman to win the title of Master of Amateur Film. According to available data, Ivančić made 75 short films, of which 14 titles have been preserved. Although her work is primarily seen in the framework of amateurism, it breaks down gender and genre definitions by combining home, documentary and experimental cinema, with an emphasized interest in textures, structure and nature. She died in Zagreb in 1987. The digitization project of Tatjana Ivančić's preserved films as part of the activities of the Zagreb Cinema Club was led by Petra Belc in 2019-2020. On this occasion, the digital restoration of the image was made by the Austrian Film Museum, while the sound was restored by Digital Magic studio. [1]

Writings

• "Moj prvi film", Film+Ton Magazin, Munich, Apr 1967.

Literature

• Zoran Tadić, "Van iz kuhinje! O remek-djelima Tatjane Ivančić", Matica hrvatska 185, Apr 2001. (Croatian)
• Zoran Tadić, "Tatjana Ivančić—morski mini-dokumentarci", in Tadić, Ogledi o hrvatskom dokumentarcu, Zagreb: Hrvatski Filmski Savez, 2009, pp 143–147. (Croatian)
• Petra Belc, "Eksperimentalni film sa ženskim potpisom : kratak pregled odabranih tema i filmova" [Experimental film with a female signature: short overview of selected topics and films], Hrvatski filmski ljetopis 88, Zagreb: HFS, 2016, pp 57-78. [2] (Croatian)
• Petra Belc Krnjaić, "Some Remarks on the Position of Women in the History of Yugoslav Experimental Cinema: The Case of Tatjana Ivančić", in Disrupting Historicity, Reclaiming the Future, eds. Silvana Carotenuto, Francesca Maria Gabrielli, and Renata Jambrešić Kirin, Naples: Unior Press, and Zagreb: Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, 2019, pp 249–270. [3] (English)
• Jurica Pavičić, "Priča o ženi koja je jednog davnog dana na svoj 50 i neki rođendan dobila 8 mm amatersku kameru", Jutarnji list, 1 Nov 2020. (Croatian)
• Petra Belc, "Home Movies and Cinematic Memories: Fixing the Gaze on Vukica Đilas and Tatjana Ivančićin", in Experimental Cinemas in State-Socialist Eastern Europe, eds. Ksenya Gurshtein and Sonja Simonyi, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2022, pp 151-174. (English)

Links

• Profile on Forgotten Heritage
• Digital restoration of the preserved films of Tatjana Ivančić, 14 Super8 films from 1970–1976, [4] [5]
• Super Super 8s: Films by Tatjana Ivančić, 2020