Božidarka Frajt (playing herself) is an actress who is unsuccessfully looking for a job in Zagreb. The film follows her everyday life: she spends time with her friends and colleagues, shoots a television commercial, goes to a party, remembers her difficult childhood as a war orphan, and contemplates her professional and personal failures. Finally, she visits theatre manager Vjeran Zuppa in his office and asks for a job.
A group of young men rampage all day through the streets of an Adriatic port make love, wrangle over lunch, drink, finally steal a bus and is a burst of destructiveness drive it over the cliffs into the sea from which in surrealist fashion they are resurrected.
After film school, Godina’s first professional work as a director was “Picnic on Sunday,” a 1968 black-and-white short without any words that shows how seven different people spend a Sunday. A simple concept, but in Godina’s hands the short is suffused with both sexuality and revolution. - Paste
Two friends try to tear out their lives from the clutches of idle. An existential study of ordinary lives led by two alienated urban white collar workers, Accidental Life was the only feature film of Ante Peterlić, Croatian film theorist and film critic. The film received mediocre reviews and went largely unnoticed after its release, but has been reevaluated decades later as one of the best Croatian films ever made.
I. S. returns after many years to his hometown, from which he escaped after WW II, fearing that, as a civil clerk of the NDH, could suffer prosecution from the new government. He has been falsely accused to be a member of Ustasha movement.
The concept of the film "People (Passing) II" can best be described as an ultimate dynamic of visual and acoustic rhythm with a texture which consists of people passing, standing, sitting, laying, swinging, fukmed by static, mobile, at times intrusive, but always with a highly suggestive camera.
The Focus is the film about easy death on the Mediterranean sun.
Auto-poetical collage announcement of a filmmakers future motion picture works.
On the trail of the partisan to the liberator from the first days of the liberation of Yugoslavia to the meeting with the generation of '68.
A film about the dominance of time and space over a human being. A poetic reflection on the transience of material life characterized by a Mediterranean ambience, contemplation, mosaic structure, and repetitive editing patterns.
A short experimental 35mm film showing beggars, hobos and other misfits.
A documentary about Ann, the United States citizen, who came to Zagreb (Yugoslavia) to participate in the working actions along the Sava river.
This observational documentary about carnation pickers at one of Split plantations does not have a single line of dialoguel not a single commentary or any kind of intervention in life apart from exclusion of colour belonging to it after the first introductory close-ups of the flower itself.
A time for sowing and a time for a marriage followed by everyday struggle and change of seasons. Chicken feed on the seeds of plowed fields, man eats chicked, life eats man... In front of a fixed eye the cycle of life evolves.
Infrared footage of a fire fighting exercise in which firemen are in the dark and are blindly crawling through the cage intended for such exercise, while the “seeing” camera follows them.
An oniric video about the process of contemplation without cuts, because all life is in segue. Meditation on duration, time and the relationship of the inner world of an individual and the technological surrounding.
Analog video by Milan Bukovac which interprets television as a dictator of our perceptual habits.
