Rastko Ćirić
Born on May 24, 1955. in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
Graduated in 1979 from the Faculty of Applied Arts, University of Arts, Belgrade, and finished the Masters Degree on Illustration and Animation at the same school in 1982.
Full Professor of Illustration at the Faculty of Applied Arts, University of Arts , Belgrade.
Professor of Animation and Head of the Animation Department at Dunav Film School, Belgrade.
Illustrator of the New York Times Book Review (editor Steven Heller) since 2002.
Fields of interest
Animation, Graphic design (illustrations, logos, posters, ex-libris, comics), Art graphics, Music.
Animated Films
The Circus Departs (1982, Neoplanta Film)
Stop (1982, Dunav Film)
It's Not Whether You Win or Lose (1984, Dunav Film)
Tango Ragtime (1985, Dunav Film)
The Tower of Bababel (1988, Zagreb Film)
Artical No. 7 – part of the Concert for Human Rights (Stephen Johnson Prod)
Ogres and Bogies (Avala film)
Farty (1993, Dunav Film)
Light In A-Major (1995, Avala Film)
Invisible and poorly visible animal species (1998, Dunav Film)
Postovana Deco (animated series pilot, Dunav film, 1999)
Wanted (Dunav film, 2001)
All Together on the Wireless Machine (2004)
Metamorph (in work)
Books published
Take Your Drawings for a Walk - Small School of Animation (1986)
Ogres and Bogies /with A. Peragras/ (1989)
Handy Zoo (1990)
Common Life Anatomy (1994)
Telephone Jokes (1994)
Ogres & Bogie Manual
Sophisticated Bondaging Manual
Three Stories About Farty (1994)
Fairy Chess (1998)
Invisible and poorly visible animal species (1998)
Ping-Pong Ball Cracker (1999)
Targetofilia (1999)
Centaur Letters (2000)
Pangrams (2000)
Home-Bred Metamorph Cultivating Manual (2002)
What Is Rebus? (2003)
Ten Lecturers By Rastko Ciric (2003)
Music
Tango Ragtime (1985, arranged and performed by Laza Ristovski)
The Rubber Soul Project (with Goran Skrobonja, 1995) 15 songs dedicated to The Beatles
The Reservation Blues, antiwar song, with Target Project group, April 1999. Concert in Rome, Sept. 1999.
City And Memory, music for the feature documentary film by Gabrielle Hochleitner, Austria, 2000.
The Rubber Soul Project – documentary feature film directed by Dinko Tucakovic (Soul Flower, 2004) about Rastko Ciric's musical project. Premiere in Montpellier , France , October 2004.
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