Leviathan
Synopsis:
Jerky but smiling characters from this short film will take the audience through this animated pageant inspired by a book by Thomas Hobbes called The Leviathan, written in 1651.
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When did you last talk with your father? Will you ever ask him about those things that hurt you? In Father the reality of life is turned upside down to create an impossible dialogue – the dialogue between a child and a father that never happens.
- Drama
- Experimental
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A nice old lady is living a lonesome life, filled with small rituals and melancholic memories about some better days. Still, there’s something strange about her… The power of denial and fear of change keep the old lady trapped in her worst nightmares until suddenly a long-kept secret emerges and the old lady can’t escape it anymore.
- Drama
- Tragedy
- Experimental
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The Arcadian atmosphere of a hazy underworld hosts unusual characters: an Illusionist, a Civil Entity, a Wooden Puppet and a silent, but dangerous Swordsmen. Their mysterious experiences are an allegory of the relationship between the now extinct tradition of European combat swordsmanship and the doctrine of pragmatic political action. Is the end of the allegory also a beginning of an instructive misunderstanding? The film is inspired by the motifs from the books Flower of Battle (1410) by Fiore dei Liberi and A Dialogue in Hell between Machiavelli and Montesquieu (1864) by Maurice Joly.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Abstract
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Vladislav Knežević takes archive photos from an illustrated entertainment magazine of 1929 as the basis for his experimental-animated film, thus creating an associative, yet disturbing “film journal”.
- Documentary
- Experimental
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The film tells a story about dualism, about the man’s nature of destroying everything around him, as well as his desire for immortality. The puppet on a bike performs the theatre play Faustus in which a man sells his soul to the devil.
- Drama
- Abstract
- Experimental
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In the distant future, survivors in special groups on a post-apocalyptic epidemic-ravaged earth are assigned to find remaining signs of life – but as the Technology Unit found two dead bodies in a bath, they desperately depart.
- Drama
- Sci-Fi
- Experimental
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Three diffferent stories about a relationship between a father and son, taking place in different social milieux.
- Drama
- Tragedy
- Fantasy
- Romance
- Abstract
- Experimental
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Film is based on Miroslav Krleža’s The Ballads of Petrica Kerempuh, one of the capital works of Croatian literature. We are drawing parallels between ancient and modern time to emphasize that the masses were always oppressed by tyrants.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Abstract
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The film is based on a poem Ciganska, written by Miroslav Krleža, one of the greatest Croatian literary authors. The atmosphere, the complex surreal characters, and furthermore, the choice of an austere Krleža’s poem (1936), shows authors have made an aware reference to German expressionism. That way they have focused on depicting the psyche of characters, particularly stressing out ultimate angst, alienation in urban jungle, or baffling drive for self-destruction.
- Drama
- Music Videos
- Tragedy
- Abstract
- Experimental
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This graduation work is an animated film based on a short story by Mihovil Rismondo, a colleague from the Academy of Dramatic Art. The theme is bullying, with an accent on the socio-psychological aspect. Set in school days, it is a story about boys who physically demonstrate their misunderstanding of someone who is different and take this behaviour to its limit. With the idea to create an original visuality, different techniques of material preparations have been used, as well as different animation techniques. In terms of genre, the film combines drama and horror, ending in a catharsis.
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Elena is enjoying her life in clouds, until she meets a charming Red Crane and a seed starts growing inside her. Not ready for the changes and sacrifices that the seed brings to her life, Elena rips it out of her body. Soon she will realise the consequences of doing so.
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A grandiose transoceanic cruise ship sailing the seas.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Tragicomedy