Closeness

Closeness 2019

1

It is the summer of 2018. They know she is leaving. In the end, only memories will remain to keep them company.

2019

Teletext

Teletext 2024

1

A snappy animated diversion turns simple graphic symbols into colorful arrows of resistance. In the field of the rudimentary predecessor of the Internet, the author uses the tried and tested tactic of détournement in order to overcome the limitations of narrowly defined frameworks and transform the screen into a space of new meanings and the scene of a battle against the banalization of the mind. A battle that may have already been lost, but that does not mean that we can afford to lose the sharpness of the senses and the sharp sense of humor that the author demonstrates by repurposing outdated media technology in order to lucidly mock her and our reconciliation with the given state of affairs.

2024

Unknown Energies, Unidentified Emotions

Unknown Energies, Unidentified Emotions 2015

1

A Foundation reporter, Isidor Dukas comes to the Institute to make a report. For the purpose of objective reporting, the Foundation uses agents with induced, synthetic identities. In confrontation with one of the test subjects, what was supposed to be a routine control turns into a never ending maze.

2015

The Archive

The Archive 2018

1

Envolves around the mysterious death of a female librarian.

2018

Vshmsh

Vshmsh 2024

1

A cat trying to nap.

2024

Sanja

Sanja 2016

1

Documentary about a female designer.

2016

Dota

Dota 2016

6.50

An audiovisual weave in which an animated line represents the warp, while the female voice represents the filling. She who weaves and that what is woven intertwine through time.

2016

Shelter

Shelter 1967

1

Petek is very versatile and is experimenting with all possible formats, the Zagreb film school of animation-influenced parts, the quasi SF childish games, the color splashes, the psychedelic timbres, the pop art/ collage experiments and a swirl of other 60s gestures.

1967

Termites

Termites 1963

3.00

Milan Šamec was a member of conservative stream in the Zagreb Cine Club, the one that denied and mocked the “anti-film”. Termites were made as an absurd demonstration that anyone can make an experimental film. He took the film, exposed it unevenly, and called the dance of visual stains that resulted — termites, because that’s what they reminded him of.

1963

The Paracosmic Document

The Paracosmic Document 2018

1

Gravitational waves are passing through every existing dimension, even the almost undetectable ones. The scientific experiment, in its basic utilitarian nature, is aimed at the understanding of the multidimensional structure of things and has the potential for an uncanny experience. The device has successfully detected the unknown dimension at an infinitesimal scale and set up the parameters for magnification and tracking of all the activities in the ambient of non-place visible to us. By its typology, the universal architecture of non-place is optimised for documenting the unknowable and determining the topology of the unexpected. The film follows the course of the intense activities of the entities present in the N dimension that generate a sort of beyond-human experience.

2018

The Tiniest

The Tiniest 2013

1

He lived across, just like this, across the street. He entered his house when we were all going home. The store was closing. In the summertime, it's at 9 PM. That's the last time I saw him.

2013

Rhapsody in Green

Rhapsody in Green 1970

1

A short film focused on the flora and fauna of a bog.

1970

Encounter

Encounter 1963

7.00

Unencumbered by a professional education and open to new ideas, Vladimir Petek (b. 1940) was energetically exploring in the 1960s what film could do as a medium if used in nonstandard ways. In his early works, the obsession with the medium was connected to his youthful delight with female beauty, and Petek created some of the most striking portrait films in Croatian cinema, which might be seen as the more filmically inventive cousins of the Screen Tests that Andy Warhol started doing in 1964 to explore film’s seemingly innate ability to turn almost anyone into a "star." Encounter offers a portrait of a woman (Ksenija Filipović, his then-girlfriend) whose face becomes mysterious, desirable, and endlessly captivating on film, all the more so because of Petek’s various interventions in the film stock.

1963

To the Final Drop

To the Final Drop 1972

1

A short film about a cat drinking milk set to the song "Popcorn" by Gershon Kingsley.

1972

Pleiades

Pleiades 2021

1

To this small shift in one of many Microcosms, I willingly engrave meaning, using mythology. Myth as a metaphor, or as a means of destruction of every fright that might cross in.

2021

Equinox

Equinox 1973

1

An experimental short film.

1973

From Dawn to Sunset

From Dawn to Sunset 1971

1

A short film about ants and their everyday activities. The audio of the film is currently lost.

1971