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

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

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

Romeo & Julio

Romeo & Julio 2009

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Break-dance trash musical comedy/parody based on William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet.

2009

Everything or Nothing

Everything or Nothing 1968

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A meditation on transience composed through juxtaposition of sun-bathed exteriors of Split and dark interiors, landscapes of the city and close-ups of human faces, movements and stillness, the material and the spiritual.

1968

Life Goes On

Life Goes On 1970

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Experimental short by Ivan Martinac.

1970

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

I'm Mad

I'm Mad 1967

7.00

Creating mystical cinematic supernovas through elaborate cutting techniques.

1967

Monologue on Split

Monologue on Split 1962

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

1962

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

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

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