It was founded by Dragan Cakić and Milan Milosavljević in October 2005 as an informal group. In November 2007, it evolved into the Independent Film Center Cinema Club “Vorky Team,” with the aim of promoting and presenting the ideas of the famous Serbian and American filmmaker and theorist, Slavoljub Slavko Vorkapich (1894–1976), who was born in the village of Dobrinci in the municipality of Ruma.

In October 2005, the First Art Evening dedicated to this great artist was held in the lobby of the Cultural Center in Ruma, organized by the Vorky Team. For the first time, some of his films were screened in Ruma. The guests of the evening were Marko Babac (retired professor of film editing, Vorkapić’s student and friend), Božidar Marjanović (representative of the Yugoslav Film Archive / Jugoslovenska Kinoteka), and Dušan Poznanović (journalist for Sremske Novine from Sremska Mitrovica), who shared key details from the great artist’s life with the audience.

In late April 2006, the Vorky Team, with the support of the Ruma Cultural Center, shot its first self-produced film. The film Jutro (Morning) was based on a story by the Russian avant-garde writer Daniil Kharms and was made in accordance with Slavko Vorkapich’s principles of visuality and editing. Jutro premiered on October 20, 2006, at the Ruma Cultural Center. On the same day in Dobrinci, in the presence of numerous guests and friends, the Vorky Team, with the help of the Dobrinci Local Community, unveiled a memorial plaque to Slavko Vorkapich on the house where he was born. This is the first and, so far, only memorial in the world dedicated to Slavko Vorkapich. The plaque was created by sculptor Branislav Crvenković from Ruma, who is also a member of the Vorky Team. Following a memorial service in the church, a commemorative academy was held, featuring speeches by professors Marko Babac, Vladimir Petrić, and Boro Drašković. Tijana Palkovljević from the Gallery of Matica Srpska in Novi Sad had the honor of opening the academy, speaking about S. Vorkapich’s paintings. After the academy, the guests and media representatives moved to Ruma, where the program continued. The audience had the opportunity to see S. Vorkapich’s work for the first time and hear professors Babac, Petrić, and Drašković talk about Vorky and his movies. The evening concluded with a screening of the film Jutro, which was later shown at short film festivals both locally and abroad.

In 2007, the Vorky Team produced the short film Soba 52 (Room 52). Since its inception, the Vorky Team has been constantly dedicated to film education and presentation. As a result, screenings of films by cinema giants (such as Bergman, Polanski, Lynch…) as well as young local directors (Stefan Arsenijević, Mladen Đorđević, Ivan Petrović…) have been organized at the Cultural Center in Ruma.

In cooperation with the “Studentski Grad” Cultural Center in Belgrade, the Vorky Team is working on a translation of Ed Spiegel’s book The Innocence of the Eye: A Filmmaker’s Guide, which is dedicated to Slavko Vorkapich.

Since May 2008, joined by Belgrade director and critic Marko Kostić, the Vorky Team has been traveling and lecturing on the importance of Slavko Vorkapich’s ideas. So far, lectures have been held in Belgrade, Bečej, Novi Sad, and Ruma. In 2008, they shot the film Horror Vacui, which was screened at an ethnographic film festival. In 2009, they produced the documentary Muzičar (The Musician), which was screened at the following festivals: the 57th Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival; the “Golden Knight” Festival in Russia (2010); the “Prvi Kadar” Festival in Istočno Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (2010); Filmski Front in Novi Sad (2010); and RAF in Zagreb, Croatia (2011). It won the main awards at the “301 Film” Festival in Grocka and the “Kratka Forma” Festival in Gornji Milanovac in 2011.

The film Fatamorgana Josipa Novaka i pauci (Josip Novak’s Mirage and the Spiders, 2011) was screened at the “Beldocs” Festival in Belgrade in 2011.

We organized three film workshops in 2011, 2013, and 2016.

During 2013, we launched monthly film evenings at the Cultural Center.

Expanding our activities in 2014, in addition to the monthly film evenings, we began organizing film cycles in cooperation with foreign cultural centers (The Russian House, The French Institute, The Goethe-Institut, The Italian Cultural Institute, and the embassies of Norway, Slovakia, and Israel), the BalkanKult Foundation, the Balkanima, Beldocs, and Free Zone festivals, and the Serbian Orthodox Church Commune of Ruma – Church of the Descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles.

To commemorate the 120th anniversary of Slavko Vorkapich’s birth, we organized the “Mister Vorky” International Festival of One-Minute Film on March 17, 2014. Since 2015, this festival has been held annually in early June.