Legendary Yugo Rock Film at Dom Omladine

Belgrade, Nov.30, 2009 (Serbia Today) - Koja, leader, bassist and lead vocalist of the legendary band Disciplin A Kitschme, (Disciplina Kitschme literally translates as Spinal Discipline).
Disciplina Kitschme, formed by Koja ( Dusan Kojic Koja) and Urban Gerila drummer Nenad Krsavac Kele in 1981, was one of the two spin-offs of the seminal Yugoslav New Wave and later post-punk band Sarlo Akrobata, the other being Ekatarina Velika.
Five years ago, Koja organized a legendary reunion of domestic musicians at the unforgettable meetings of musicians in the Belgrade club Akademija.Fank i lastis, is a film in which the famous rocker searched out the domestic talent in Yugoslavia over the last two decades, and created a retrospective of the Serbian rock world over the years. The film will be shown on December 2 at the Belgrade Dom Omladine at 9 PM within the Author’s Film Festival.
Koja is the producer, screenplay writer, editor, animator and director of this music film. In an interview for Serbian daily Blic he talks about his struggle for a high-quality cultural expression.
“The film ‘Funk and lastis’ from 2004 represents a search for high-quality events. The 1990s left catastrophic consequences on every level including culture, in alliance with an amazing number of media. Five years later the situation was slightly better, but it still missed some basic, almost forgotten artistic moments, let’s say. I used to make sessions at Akademija very often and some side projects outside my band during the 1980s and later with English band DAK,” says Koja.
When asked about the material selected Koja describes a very painstaking procedure.
“The film lasts 88 minutes, I was editing for several months and it wasn’t always easy to make a decision what to include in the film, since there are a lot of good improvisations and interesting details. What is in the film represents an essence of the whole concept. Future DVD edition will surely have some other bonus things.”
Koja promises a special evening when the film airs at the Authors Film Festival, and he promises that those experiencing nostalgia for the old days will have the opportunity to smoke during the screening and enjoy things the way they were.