Synopsis:
The man behind the table is driving. With anxiety, memories from his childhood, from the war, his parents in the ghetto for the Jews and all the possible forms of aggression that reached him came flooding back to him, until the day he sat down at the table to answer…
- Director:
- Zlatko Bourek
- Year:
- 1978
- Country:
- Croatia
- Running time:
- 8 min.
- Technique:
- 2D Animation, Hand-drawn Animation
- Original title:
- Ručak
- Production type:
- Professional
- Animator:
- Neven Petričić
- Script writer:
- Zlatko Bourek
- Music composer:
- Tomica Simović
- Editor:
- Tea Brunšmid
- Production:
- Zagreb Film
- Genres:
- Drama, Abstract, Experimental
- Tags:
- Surreal, Identity, Trauma, Death, Relationships, Shame, Festival Darlings
- Audience:
- Adults
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- Drama
- Abstract
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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The Cat
1971 Adults 10 min
by Zlatko Bourek
As in the ancient fable of Aesop, the young poet is alone with his art until the goddess Venus gives him company, turning his cat into a beautiful girl.
- Drama
- Musical
- Abstract
- Experimental
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The House Of The Plague
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- Fantasy
- Abstract
- Experimental
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Power, control, manipulation, domination and unavoidable triumph of love.
- Drama
- Sci-Fi
- Abstract
- Experimental
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Butterflies
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by Krešimir Zimonić
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- Drama
- Romance
- Abstract
- Experimental
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The Album
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- Drama
- Romance
- Abstract
- Experimental
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I Saw a Stretch and Mud
1964 Adults 12 min
by Zlatko Bourek
The story follows the key dramatic moments of Miroslav Krlež’s “The Ballade of Petrica Kerempuh”, accompanied by Kajkavian verses. The grotesque character of Bourek’s drawing poprime u pokretu tražiće dimenzije krležijanskog sižentanja pastrišti, kao voracious visions of blood, fire and fog on Croatian territory during the war against the Turks. Panoramas, movements of the flesh, insistence on dramatic events, all this is a new and unique initiative in our cartoon film.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Abstract
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Goodbye Jerome!
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- Drama
- Tragicomedy
- Abstract
- Experimental
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Flocks
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- Drama
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- Experimental
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Bryan Away: The Lake
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by Qianwen Yu
Lake is liquid, inanimate, emotionless. Like blood flowing through a body, the water circulates and sustains, bringing life to its surroundings. In this video, life is continuously reborn through the raindrops, through the terrain and into the air. The beauty of this process is juxtaposed with the songwriter’s perspective, someone who is detached and yearning to feel the full breadth of human emotion.
- Drama
- Music Videos
- Abstract
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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TIE
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Under a gloomy sun, two characters look for adaptation.
- Drama
- Abstract
- Experimental
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- Drama
- Tragicomedy
- Sci-Fi
- Abstract
- Experimental