Srđan Keča is an award-winning filmmaker, researcher, and educator. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art & Art History and Program Director of the MFA in Documentary Film at Stanford University.
That sound High in the air
in production • feature-length documentary
Director / Writer / DoP
CPH:Forum 2020
Museum of the RevolutioN
2021 • feature-length documentary
Director / Writer / Producer / DoP / Co-editor
IDFA 2021 ● HotDocs 2022 ● Sarajevo Film Festival 2022 - Heart of Sarajevo for Best Documentary ● Big Sky Documentary Festival 2023 - Best Feature Documentary
“Engrossing” – The New York Times
“Wondrous” – Senses of Cinema
“Observational cinema at its best” – POV Magazine
Montage Fever
2017 • single channel audio and video
Director / Editor
Commissioned by the Cantor Arts Center for the Lynn Krywick Gibbons Gallery
Flotel Europa
2015 • feature-length documentary
Producer / Editor / Co-writer
Berlinale Forum 2015 - Tagesspiegel Jury Award ● Documenta Madrid 2015 - Special Prize of the Jury ● Crossing Europe 2015 - Best Documentary Film ● Dokufest 2015 - Best Balkan Documentary
“Groundbreaking” - Calvert Journal
“Powerful” - Cineuropa
Museum of the Revolution
2015 • single-channel audio and video
Director / DoP / Editor
Artists Film International 2015 ● Whitechapel Gallery (London) ● Project 88 (Mumbai)
14-14
2014 • site-specific video installation • 3 channel video and 2 channel audio
Director / DoP / Editor
Venice Biennale of Architecture 2014
Escape
2013 • short documentary
Director / DoP / Producer
DOK Leipzig 2013
Commissioned by Care International
The Real Social Network
2012 • feature-length documentary
Co-director / DoP
Open City Documentary Festival 2012
“Go occupy the cinemas and see this film.” – i-D Magazine
The First Step / A History of the night
2012 • short experimental film
Director / Producer
Commissioned for Festival Delle Lettere, Milan, Italy
Mirage
2011 • medium-length documentary
Director / DoP / Producer
Ji.hlava 2012 - Best Central and Eastern European Documentary ● Filmfestival Cottbus 2011 - Discovery Award ● London Short Film Festival 2012 - Best Documentary
“A sumptuous visual exploration” - Sight & Sound
“A bitter depiction of working class life” - Modern Times Review
A Letter to Dad
2011 • medium-length documentary
Director / DoP / Producer
IDFA 2011 ● Dokufest 2011 - Best Balkan Documentary
“Forces one to raise one’s eyebrows in astonishment” - Eastern European Film Bullettin
”Asks questions that go a long way towards explaining the issue of collective guilt” - Modern Times Review
After the War
2006 • medium-length documentary
Director / Writer / DoP
Festival dei Popoli 2006 ● dokumentART 2006 - Audience Award ● Mediterraneo Video Festival 2007 - Winner
“Documents the uncertainty of a people’s predicament without taking sides” - Ron Holloway, KINO