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Selected Works

Ada Rajković is a Belgrade and San Francisco-based filmmaker working across documentary and experimental cinema. Her practice combines ethnographic research, community archives, and formally inventive approaches to storytelling, often engaging with themes of memory and counter histories. In 2026 she founded Another World Productions with Andjela Dostanić.

She holds a BFA in Photo and Media from CalArts and a Masters in Ethnographic Documentary from University College London. Her films have screened internationally and received recognition at European festivals, including the New Balkan Film Festival in Stockholm, where Living Among the Dead won Best Visualisation. Her experimental short Soul Storm was selected for Labocine’s 2026 Science New Wave Archives program.

In parallel with her filmmaking practice, she has founded and led artist-run initiatives and curated large-scale public programs, collaborating with emerging and established artists whose work has since gained international visibility. Her projects and exhibitions have been featured in outlets including CNN, Dazed, Flaunt, Hyperallergic, and Vice.

Ada is currently developing her first feature-length documentary, continuing her commitment to research-driven, experimental and socially engaged nonfiction cinema.

Education

University College London
Master of Arts, 2025
Ethnographic Documentary

California Institute of the Arts
Bachelor of Fine Arts, 2013
Photo and Media

Experience

International School of Visual Anthropology
Belgrade, Serbia, 2025 - Current
Mentor to a group of anthropologists, filmmakers and activists for a program of collaborative socially engaged filmmaking on the topic of workers in post-socialist Serbia.

Empire Files
San Francisco, CA, 2020-Current
Video editor and social media manager for investigative documentary web series

People’s College of Law
Los Angeles, CA, 2018-2020
Admissions Coordinator and Creative Director

Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR)
New York, NY, 2019 - 2020
Researcher and Writer

Sunday Gallery
Los Angeles, CA, 2013-2017
Co-founder and director

Selected Curation

Zero Zero
Annka Kultys Gallery
London, UK, 2017

What A Time To Be Alive
Slow Culture Gallery
Los Angeles, CA, 2016

Hot in Here
Sunday Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA, 2016

S P I R I T featuring Albert Samreth
Sunday Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA, 2015

Furniture Show featuring Yung Jake
Sunday Los Angeles, 2014
Los Angeles, CA

Remembering the Future
Women’s Center for Creative Work
A panel on building sustainable creative ecosystems
Los Angeles, CA, 2017

Art is Labor Knockdown Center
Art workers market and conference
Queens, NY, 2017

Film Festivals

Milwaukee Underground Film Festival Official Selection “Soul Storm”, 2026

Visionova Film Festival Official Selection “Living Among the Dead” Rome, Italy 2026

Balkan New Film Festival DOC:SHORT selection “Living Among the Dead” Stockholm, Sweden 2025

International Festival of Ethnographic Films “Living Among the Dead” Skopje, Macedonia 2025

VIZANTROP Visual Anthropology Festival “Living Among the Dead” Belgrade, Serbia 2025

Awards
Best Script DOC.Coimbra, 2026

Best Visualisation/ Use of Archive - Balkan New Film Festival, 2025

Workshops/Labs

Archival Bootcamp, Valencia, Spain, 2026

DOC.Coimbra Script lab, Coimbra, Portugal, 2026

Flame IN Documentary Lab, Grožnjan, Croatia 2025

Residencies

Visual Anthropology Center, Belgrade, Serbia, 2025

Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh Artist in Residence, 2017

Bunker Gallery Artist in Residence Pittsburgh, PA 2016

Visiting Artist Mattress Factory Pittsburgh, PA 2016

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