Avangardinovci
School of Transformative Cinema
School of Transformative Cinema
VICE VERSA TRIANGLE
Restoring The Cinema Hall Gardinovci
Built in 1961, Gardinovci’s cinema hall was once the temple of cultural life. For nearly three decades, it brought people together, offering films, conversations, and a space where the community could gather. Since the late 1980s, however, the hall has stood silent.
Now, after decades of silence, this landmark is waiting to be revived.
Our next step is to restore the cinema hall and transform it into a vibrant center for cinema, education, and community.
This isn’t just about bricks and chairs — it’s about bringing people together, bridging generations, and creating a hub where stories are shared and futures are imagined.
Once restored, the cinema will become:
Beyond screenings, the hall will evolve into a film school, where young creators learn by living in a community that values both tradition and innovation.
Now, after decades of silence, this landmark is waiting to be revived.
Our next step is to restore the cinema hall and transform it into a vibrant center for cinema, education, and community.
This isn’t just about bricks and chairs — it’s about bringing people together, bridging generations, and creating a hub where stories are shared and futures are imagined.
Once restored, the cinema will become:
- The centerpiece of the Transformative Cinema School
- A weekly meeting place for children and adults through screenings and clubs
- A gathering point for workshops, Q&A discussions, and creative exchanges
- A host of the International Film Festival, welcoming artists and visitors from Serbia and abroad
Beyond screenings, the hall will evolve into a film school, where young creators learn by living in a community that values both tradition and innovation.
School of Transformative Cinema
Avangardinovci
Cinema is not just storytelling — it is medicine. A shamanic approach to cinema means we are cooking the medicine for people, connecting to the collective unconscious. Each film becomes a mirror of its creator’s inner world: their conflicts, their journeys, their healing. Through self-discovery, confrontation, acceptance, and resolution, filmmakers transform their personal struggles into gifts — medicines for the audience, shared through the screen.
This vision is not only about films, but about a school — a living system. A place where people learn how to create cinema as a medicine for the soul. It is spiritual, but also deeply practical, psychological, and therapeutic. A practice that teaches creators to enter their own depths and bring back something that heals others.
And here, the role of ritual and ceremony becomes essential. Inspired by psychomagic, shamanic practices, and sacred traditions, the act of filmmaking becomes a rite, and the cinema itself becomes a temple. That is why the reconstruction of the Gardinovci cinema hall is not just a renovation project
— it is the foundation of this vision. A true temple of cinema, where creators can offer their work as prayers, and audiences can enter into a ceremony with them.
The land and nature around this place are not separate from the vision, but integral to it. Just as we planted trees and nurtured bees, so too will students cultivate themselves. The houses, the fields, the trees — they all become reflections of the inner worlds of those who come here. They will learn from nature, and in turn, give back to it, living in reciprocity.
Cinema, then, becomes a gateway into the collective unconscious.
A tool for transformation, both personal and communal.
This vision is not only about films, but about a school — a living system. A place where people learn how to create cinema as a medicine for the soul. It is spiritual, but also deeply practical, psychological, and therapeutic. A practice that teaches creators to enter their own depths and bring back something that heals others.
And here, the role of ritual and ceremony becomes essential. Inspired by psychomagic, shamanic practices, and sacred traditions, the act of filmmaking becomes a rite, and the cinema itself becomes a temple. That is why the reconstruction of the Gardinovci cinema hall is not just a renovation project
— it is the foundation of this vision. A true temple of cinema, where creators can offer their work as prayers, and audiences can enter into a ceremony with them.
The land and nature around this place are not separate from the vision, but integral to it. Just as we planted trees and nurtured bees, so too will students cultivate themselves. The houses, the fields, the trees — they all become reflections of the inner worlds of those who come here. They will learn from nature, and in turn, give back to it, living in reciprocity.
Cinema, then, becomes a gateway into the collective unconscious.
A tool for transformation, both personal and communal.
