Relja Pekić
Dedicated lover of anthropology, movies and football club "Partizan". He never gets tired
of the work he loves.
Responsible for the scientific approach in our work.
Master of ethnology and anthropology, a documentary and visual anthropologist from
Belgrade, and his interest in the field of scientific research is mostly focused on
visual anthropology, anthropology of sport, anthropology of tourism, applied
anthropology and sensory ethnography.
Editor of the magazine for interdisciplinary audiovisual research, visual anthropology
and ethnographic film - "Vizantrop". He is the author of several short ethnographic
films that were screened at ethnographic festivals in Ljubljana, Zadar, Prague,
Belgrade, Prizren, Moscow and Skopje, and for the film "Crossroads of Culture" (2013) he
received the audience award for the best student film at SEF festival in Croatia.
He is a founder of the "Visual Anthropology School" workshop from Belgrade and
participated as a lecturer at many seminars and conferences in the Balkans.
Miklós Barna Lipkovski
A free spirit and with a relaxed approach to life, Miklós is also a hard-worker and a dedicated movie lover. He is responsible for the technical proficiency and high quality of the films shot within the ŠVA.
He was born in Budapest in 1987, spent his childhood years in Rome. Lived in Budapest, Bologna, Berlin and is currently based in Belgrade.
Works as a freelance photographer, video artist and journalist.
He finished his MA in television journalism and documentary film directing in 2006 at the University of film and theatre in Budapest.
He has been working in digital media covering different fields ever since.
He has been working as a video journalist for Radio Free Europe since 2021.
His focus has been split between journalism and artistic approach towards video- and filmmaking. His films have been selected for international festivals in the region and he has received a journalistic award in 2023.
Speaks Hungarian, Serbian, Italian, English and German.
Marija Barna Lipkovski
Marija is a professional theater director, performer, researcher and educator.
Her interest in visual anthropology is connected to her interest in performative aspects of anthropology and anthropological aspects of the performative.
She is running the theater company Tri Groša/Threepenny with her friend and colleague Ana Pinter. Tri Groša is dedicated to discovering new modes of artistic, production and management practices. She is also active as a freelance theater director.
She was born in Belgrade, Serbia in September 1989. Immediately after finishing high school, she was admitted to the Faculty of dramatic arts, Belgrade University of arts. There she finished the MA studies of theater and radio directing in 2015 as an excellent student. As a part of her studies she was a DAAD scholarship holder, and as such studied for one year on „Ernst Busch Hochshule f. Schauspielkunst“ in Berlin, Germany. In 2020 she successfully obtained her PhD degree in Scene design with the thesis: “Construction of personal Self-identity in the Internet-chronotope”.
Her obsessive subject is the obscure border between reality and fiction. She explores this border through various artistic genres and scientific articles.
Marija is fluent in Serbian, English and German, and can communicate in Hungarian and Russian.
Nikola Radeka
Nikola Radeka is an ethnomusicologist from Belgrade; he completed his MA studies in ethnomusicology at the Faculty of Music of the University of Arts in Belgrade. He has been conducting ethnomusicological field research since 2008, which, through audiovisual ethnography, served as the initial spark for entering the field of documentary film.
So far his research covered vocal practices of Dinaric immigrants and musicians in public transport in Belgrade, posthumous rituals among the Vlachs, the practice of electronic music performers (which also represents the current focus of research), and the two-part singing of the older vocal practice in the rural areas of Croatia and Bosnia & Herzegovina.
He is the president and one of the founders of the Ethnomusicological Activities Centre, within which he has implemented several projects related to ethnomusicological field research. He was involved in production of documentary films, multimedia art and interactive sculpture. He is the founder and director of the FESTUM festival since 2010, as well as the Festival of Traditional Music held in Paris (2018), Belgrade (2019), and Kraljevo (2021).
He has been active in electronic music performance and music production since 2015. He founded a conceptual music event called Slivnik (Drain), which promotes alternative directions in popular electronic music.
Anđela Dostanić
Anđela Dostanić is a visual anthropologist who graduated from the Department of Ethnology and Anthropology at the University of Belgrade and is currently completing a Master’s degree in Documentary Directing at the Academy of Arts in Belgrade.
She previously took part in an Erasmus Mundus Master in Urban Studies, traveling and researching urban transformations and informal economies in cities like Brussels, Vienna, Copenhagen, and Madrid. These experiences shaped her approach to both research and filmmaking, combining curiosity, observation, and engagement with the world around her.
Anđela is a co-founder of the Vizantrop collective and coordinator of the Engaged Ethnographic Film Festival – Vizantrop, where she helps organize events, support filmmakers, and bring ethnographic and documentary films to wider audiences. She has also worked as a mentor at local and international schools of visual anthropology, supporting students in research-based filmmaking and collaborative projects.
She co-authored multiple ethnographic films that have been screened at numerous domestic and international festivals. Alongside filmmaking, she works as a camerawoman and media production manager, enjoying both the creative and technical sides of production.
Passionate about stories, people, and places, Anđela sees each film as an opportunity to explore, understand, and connect.
Ada Rajkovic
Ada Rajkovic is a filmmaker based in Belgrade and San Francisco with interests in autoethnography, collective memory, alternative histories, experimental cinema, and militant cinema. She graduated from CalArts in 2013 with a BFA in Photo and Media. Shortly after, she founded the artist-run gallery and community space, Sunday, where she curated over 70 art shows, screenings and events. She was artist in residence in Pittsburgh Children's Museum and a visiting artist at the Mattress Factory.
In 2016, she co-founded an artist advocacy collective (G.A.P.) that organized art workers, mapped power in the art world, held forums, and guerrilla art installations in institutions such as the New Museum. In 2017, she pursued a law degree from People’s College of Law. While there, she served as a board member and creative director for admissions. In 2025, she completed her masters in Ethnographic Documentary at University College London and is working on her forthcoming feature.
Lana Kerić
Born in 2005 in Požarevac and originally from the small town of Kostolac, she moved her life to the big city of Belgrade with the ambition to achieve great goals. She is a second-year student of Graphic Design at the Faculty of Contemporary Arts in Belgrade. After completing secondary medical school, where she trained as a midwife, she returned to the art to which she had always felt drawn.
During her studies, she developed an interest in multimedia and conceptual art, with a focus on experimental approaches and a simple visual expression. Before her first major annual exhibition at the Faculty of Contemporary Arts, she painted and exhibited in smaller group exhibitions in Kostolac and Požarevac.
Recently, alongside her partner, she has fallen in love with the process of filmmaking and, through it, together with him, spontaneously entered what is now for her a new world of visual anthropology. She finds her peace and focus in small rituals such as coffee, cigarettes, and good music. She speaks Serbian and English, with a desire to expand her linguistic repertoire. She aspires to establish herself as a graphic designer and an artist devoted to conceptual and multimedia practice, with plans to pursue a master’s degree in multimedia art.
