The objectives of the Association are nurturing, development and dissemination of culture, education in the field of ethnographic and documentary film and art, with a focus on scientific practices and filmmaking.
“We were intruders, professional intruders. For them, and to some extent for ourselves, we were non-persons, ghosts, invisible people. The recipe for achieving that mysterious condition for anthropological field work was: “get caught or get caught”.”
– Clifford Geertz
Master of ethnology and anthropology from Belgrade. His field of research is in the domain of visual anthropology, anthropology of sport and tourism, and engaged anthropology. In 2018, he became the director of the Center for Visual Anthropology - VAC and a member of the "Vizantrop" collective. Relja is a member of the selection committee and director of the festival of engaged ethnographic film "Vizanthrope", which took place in 2019 and 2020 in the UK "Stari Grad" in Belgrade, and he was twice elected as president of the student jury at the International Ethnological Film Festival in Belgrade. He is the author of 6 short ethnographic films, and with the film "Crossroads of Culture" he won the audience award at the first SEF festival in Zadar. At the "ETNOFILM" festival (Rovinj) in 2019, he was chosen as the main selector for the student program. 9 years ago, he founded the "School of Visual Anthropology" workshop, in which he participated as a lecturer, editor and mentor.
Born on August 20, 1987 in Kragujevac. She completed her studies at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade, majoring in Ethnology and Anthropology. During her studies, she became interested in the problems of the society in which she lives. Therefore, in 2008, she enrolled in the two-semester alternative program "Center for Women's Studies and Gender Research" in Belgrade and received their official certificate. As a very active member of Women's Studies, she started working in 2010 on the SOS telephone of the Autonomous Women's Center, and since 2012 she has been leading self-help groups as an experienced presenter.
- In 2013, she became Vukana's mother.
- In 2014, she shot the film "How I Won", which was shown at the themed evening "Feminist Directors of Serbia".
- Center for Margin | Belgrade 2014 - 2015. Co-creator, creative consultant, author of the site czm.org.rs
- Catalyst | Belgrade 2016 - 2017. Educator of peer violence in secondary schools.
- Social Center "Krov" | Belgrade 2020 - right now. Project coordinator. PR of the "Vizantrop" festival.
Kosta Talbić is a student of Psychology at the Faculty of Media and Communication, First Krovadžija and Co-Co-Founder of the Social Center Krov. Kosta is the founder and host of the Metaphyisca podcast, as well as the Metaphysical Literature Readers' Club, which deals with the maintenance of the world's spiritual heritage. He is also a Member and Organizer of the Engaged Ethnographic Film Festival - Vizantrop.
Completed basic studies in Ethnology and Anthropology at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade and interdisciplinary master's studies in Cultural Policy and Management at the University of Arts in Belgrade. She is the co-founder of the Vizantrop association and one of the organizers of the Engaged Ethnographic Film Festival - Vizantrop. She is the co-author of several short ethnographic films that were shown at festivals in Serbia and the region. Since 2019, she has been a mentor and lecturer at the School of Visual Anthropology, organized by the Center for Visual Anthropology - VAC. As part of her master's research, she dealt with the topic of precarious working conditions in the cultural sector in Serbia.
Born in 1995 in Belgrade, graduated in Ethnology and Anthropology at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade. She is one of the co-founders of the Vizantrop association and project coordinator and member of the selection committee of the Engaged Ethnographic Film Festival - Vizantrop. She is the author of several student films that were shown at numerous domestic and foreign festivals. During her undergraduate studies, in addition to visual anthropology, she became interested in the field of urban anthropology. She is currently completing an international Erasmus Mundus Master in Urban Studies (4CITIES), during which she studied at six universities in Brussels (VUB, ULB), Vienna (Univie), Copenhagen (KU) and Madrid (UCM, UAM).
Nikola Lero is a poet, ethnographer and doctoral researcher working on migration and culture in the post-Yugoslav space. He currently works as a teaching assistant at the University of Sheffield (United Kingdom). He previously completed a master’s degree in intercultural relations in Norway, Germany and South Africa. In 2022 and 2023 he was a Fulbright researcher at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Saint Louis University in Missouri (USA). As a journalist, poet and editor, he has written about popular culture, nationalism and transition in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia, with a focus on the identities of post-war generations. He has collaborated with UNESCO and UNICEF, and is the author of the short ethnographic research film Places That Whisper (Mjesta koja šapuću), which deals with the suffering of Sarajevo’s Jews during the Second World War.
Anđela Đurić was also born on 20 August, but in Belgrade, in 1997. She spent her childhood in South Africa, where from an early age she was “among her own” among the Others. She has more years of formal education than years of life. She completed her undergraduate studies in journalism in Beijing at the Communication University of China (CUC), and her master’s degree in cultural anthropology at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. She has worked as a journalist and translator. Since autumn 2024, when she enrolled in a second master’s programme at the Faculty of Media and Communications (FMK) in Belgrade, she has been engaged with the student movement both as a student and as a researcher. Alongside visual anthropology, she is also interested in the anthropology of ritual.
Sofija Drenovac was born in 2002 in Kruševac. She is a student of ethnology and anthropology at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade and a volunteer at the Ethnographic Museum. Between curatorial work and visual anthropology, her interests are focused on recording and understanding people through culture, movement and form. While living in Norway, she discovered her passion for understanding different cultural contexts, working various jobs that introduced her to people from many different perspectives. She uses poetry, drawing and painting as a personal space for exploring the relationship between thought, emotion and expression. She is interested in the relationship between perception and the ways in which we shape reality. In 2026 she joined the selection committee of the 8th Engaged Ethnographic Film Festival “Vizantrop”.
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Collective "Vizantrop" is part of the social engaged creative hub "Roof" in Belgrade. The three founding communities of ROOF are Visual Anthropology Center – VAC; Center for Ethno-musicological Activities – CED and Collective VIZANTROP cooperating with various organizations and individuals.
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