Vladimir Vlada Petrić

Theoretician, historian and aesthetician of film, Henry Luce chair of cinema at Harvard University from 1972 to 1997 at and co-founder of the Harvard Film Archive. Petrić is the first scientist to obtain the title of Doctor of Filmology in the USA at New York University. He directly and indirectly transformed the intellectual history of film in Boston and beyond. Born in Prnjavor, he completed all of his schooling in Bosnia before advanced studies in Belgrade. At the beginning of his creative career, he was involved in film, television and theatre directing, and later he focused on experimental film in various forms. A 1969 Fulbright scholarship changed his life forever, launching a pioneering career. He would become the first Harvard professor from Bosnia & Herzegovina / Yugoslavia.