In the first season of its production the series Compulsory Reading offered 12
episodes on the following works by nine writers.:

1. Ivo Andric, “Bosnian Chronicles”
2. Ivo Andric, “Damned Yard”
3. Mesa Selimovic, “Death And The Dervish”
4. Mesa Selimovic, “Fortress”
5. Branko Copic, “Mellow Coloured Garden”
6. Branko Copic, “Silent Gunpowder”
7. Hamza Humo, “Grozdana’s Giggle”
8. Dervis Susic, “Spooks”
9. Isak Samokovlija, “Samuel The Porter and Other Stories”
10. Petar Kocic, “Badger On Trial”
11. Vitomir Lukic, “The Corridors of Bright Powder”
12. Skender Kulenovic, “Lost River”

In Bosnia and Herzegovina, new movements in music are usually mixed into the same programs as pop and mainstream music (even folk) and thus remain removed from it’s actual audience, the one which has a more profound taste.

As a result, the music which aims to have a more artistic and social content (engagement) doesn’t have the opportunity to influence neither the audience nor the society. This was a guideline in creating the Cu Dzo AM Show – a music program produced by SCCA/pro.ba for BHTV1.

In it’s first season the Cu – Dzo AM Charts combined informational comments on domestic, regional and foreign music scene with music videos and a film-like studio set. In the atmosphere of film noir and Technicolor, voices of two radio hosts led the audience through the show. Two actors, dressed in mid 20th century film costumes, listen to the show while driving in their car. They make random comments and debate over the place the song should have in the chart.

Second season of the show – themed with the 60’s era – reviewed the current alternative and underground scene and featured two actors dressed as hippies with a load of wooden planks in the back of their van driving to their final destination – Woodstock. On the road they would pick up hitchhikers (usually a member of the music scene the show portrayed).

Samir Culic (Cu) and Samir Mrsevic (Dzo) are DJs and radio hosts since the times of legendary Radio Zid. The audience is quite familiar both with their voices and their music taste. Running time of the show was 26 minutes and it featured up to six music videos.

SCCA/pro.ba from 2004 until 2007 produced and showed over 120 30-minute TV shows of a unique approach. This alternative TV show on culture observed and questioned culture and society from different angles. Carefully chosen subjects, which crossed into the domain of avantgarde, were presented in different chapters (columns): Main Course, Side Dish, Snack, Salad, Dessert, Aperitif,… In its first season (2004/2005) The Kitchen succedeed in identifying and locating a dispersed cultural and artistic scene in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In its second season it articulated the potential of that scene and established its role in international context. In the third and its last season (2006/2007) The Kitchen moved from local to global aspect of cultural initiatives, bringing more stories and subjects from the recent avantgarde scene in the field of arts and culture, and related to contemporary social currents. Assertion of (young) people with opinion was the hallmark of the editorial policy of this show.

Authors: Timur Makarevic, REdzinald Simek, Enes Zlatar, Adis Djapo.

This is a series of portraits of young Bosnian artists.

Director: Yvana Ensler
Assistant director: Timur Makarevic

This series is presenting contemporary art scene in Bonsia and Herzegovina and in Europe.