El Shatt – A Blueprint for Utopia

El Shatt – A Blueprint for Utopia 2023

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Hundreds of frozen and starved people floating on boats in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea fleeing from the war... Familiar scenes that we are used to seeing in recent times. But the year is 1944, and the refugees are travelling from Europe to Africa. After Italian capitulation,and before the arrival of German army, 28 000 Dalmatian Croats left their home villages and towns to live for two years under the tents in the middle of Egyptian desert, in a kind of a communist model village that was formed to show the Allies how the new Yugoslavia will look like when the war ends. This is a story about them.

2023

While We Were Here

While We Were Here 2021

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Briefly depicted fragments from the characters' lives, through summer and winter, as each of them suffers a loss. Cinematic meditation on inevitable loss.

2021

Life Is Beautiful

Life Is Beautiful 1966

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An experiment with 'anti-language' in detail (in composition, in changing plans, in exposition, etc.). Proof that the general rhythm and those miraculous 'pixels' that are not seen in the projection really mean a lot, if not everything.

1966

Twist Twist

Twist Twist 1962

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16mm short that shows rhytmic motions of reflections spreading across sea waves, set to jazz tune.

1962

Mirror

Mirror 1987

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Old cinema creates new cinema in a new context. Stolen old images, someone’s audio track, someone else’s soundscapes – they re-create, reinventing interactions, relations and dialogue in familiar footage. Telling new stories. Transforming it back into cinema.

1987

Big Town

Big Town 1985

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Conceptual-structural film by Branko Karabatić exploring media and television.

1985

Way Out

Way Out 1978

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Way Out is dedicated to Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey.

1978

Tetrahedron

Tetrahedron 1967

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Following the form of a tetrahedron, the film consists of four regular segments, each covering one topic. It gained a cult status among Split kino-amateurs of older generations.

1967

Ultra

Ultra 2018

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Roko and Mirela are friends from Split. A big music festival is taking place in the city and Mirela wants to go.

2018

Monologue on Split

Monologue on Split 1962

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Eminently a montage film, Monologue on Split is Martinac’s cinematic manifest.

1962

Freedom

Freedom 1966

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A 8mm experimental short made in Kino Klub Split.

1966

Diary

Diary 1964

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Compressing one idle day in the life of a young artist by rotating the camera through his room, a sort of a self-portrait of Lordan Zafranović resembles a one-shot film, its grainy photography and moody music suggesting a meditative atmosphere characteristic for Split authors of his generation.

1964

Life Goes On

Life Goes On 1970

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Experimental short by Ivan Martinac.

1970

Slowly Nowhere

Slowly Nowhere 2023

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Oleg is a film student who leads a spartan life surrounded by analogue technology. A librarian during daytime, Marta is an avant-garde novelist who works with alternate subjectivity. Narrated from each of their perspectives, Čučić’s film recounts a romance that never ceases to take new shape.

2023

Woman

Woman 1968

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Between four walls of her apartment, a girl enjoys in intimate idleness and being her true self.

1968