ALU – Academy of Fine Arts Zagreb

by Darian Bakliža

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.

by Dean Hamer

The shocked family members interrogate babushka about how she met her new partner, who turns out to be an animated living skeleton, and babushka relaxedly but enthusiastically narrates the event.

by Sara Bernat

Death saves the little king in a strange world.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Abstract

by Lucija Oroz

Fear is part of our identity, it is our everyday life and we experience it in different ways. We grow up with it, and over time we overcome or suppress it. However, it is always present, transforms itself into something else, follows our steps, and enters our dreams. It is said that fear has big eyes, they grow where we meet the unknown and then, to some aspects of reality, such as time, we give unrealistic proportions. Only when the fear is overcome, the eyes shrink and the picture becomes clearer.

• Drama
• Abstract
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Sunčana Brkulj

As years and years go by, a tiny civilization makes its way upwards.

• Drama
• Fantasy
• Abstract
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Kata Gugić

Just a regular cock fight.

• Comedy
• Experimental
• Musical

by Karla Skok

The main subject of the film is the unexpected arrival of the period and the protagonist’s perception of other people’s reactions towards her ‘condition’. As soon as the M arrives, the protagonist realises she is completely unprepared, since there are no menstrual pads or tampons in her purse. With that, an absurd mission filled with obstacles begins. She tries to keep the ‘red waterfall’ gushing between her legs hidden, which symbolises overthinking and a panicky state of mind. Through the protagonist’s actions, the author is questioning society and its relation to the individual. She also questions the attitude of the society towards period and how the individual deals with the same red taboo subject.

• Comedy
• Tragicomedy
• Experimental

by Stella Hartman

A unicorn wakes up and after a series of odd events finds out that he is an astral projection. He spends the rest of the day trying to get back into his body, and return home within his own mind.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Matea Kovač

The film questions the universal understanding of love, connecting that phenomenon with the phenomenon of rigid consumerism. Traders tend to dehumanize the human smile by continuously and aggressively offering goods and services on the market of absurdity. Osmijeh represents an act of resistance against uprooted social norms.

• Drama
• Abstract
• Experimental

by Ivana Radić

At one hut, deep in the forest, everything goes peacefully. The days are filled with light, the chickens roam freely and things are in their place. However, everything changes at night. Zec insatiably thirsts for everything raw, violent and natural. Njegovi ga nagoni makes him twist his own body, i jednog dana he totally loses control.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Sunčana Brkulj

Singing skeletons dream about breaking free from their geometric formation, and taking a swim in the great, big, blue sea.

• Music Videos
• Abstract
• Experimental

by Jasna Čagalj

It’s an animal with memories. It doesn’t have a tail, it has protruding eyes and strong extremities. Its skin is slimy. I try to catch it but it’s impossible. It always gets away with ease. Secure in its ability to escape, it did not expect to be kicked. The force of the blow robs it of all grace, it no longer exudes strength. It resembles a piece of fabric being blown in the wind. It has teeth, big enough to be noticed. They are all still accounted for. It’s a frog. It is accompanied by four beings. They do not have a tail, but they do have arms and are not humans. They love to eat at the table. While they eat, they do not talk. They are not frogs but they could easily be mistaken for one of them.

• Drama
• Comedy
• Experimental
• Tragicomedy

by Katarina Jukić

Throughout life we have to deal with certain obligations and responsibilities. While most people only feel discomfort, others experience anxiety about doing the simplest tasks incorrectly.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Tragicomedy

by Mirta Filipović

I’m Not There is a debut project of Zagreb-based designer and animator Mirta Filipović. Only a few months after her first encounter with 3D animation, she embarked on a mad attempt of making an animation video for the Zagreb-based band Paul The Walrus.I’m Not There is a result of a year and a half of sleepless nights, existential ponderings and questioning why would anyone ever try and make an animated video with only three months’ experience in animation. This animation is a story about power, who has it, who doesn’t and how those who seem to have it nevertheless account to someone greater than them. Hands, eyes and mouth are used as symbols of power and submission. Hands hold power and can shape the world as they please, while eyes and mouth are sensual organs that can only observe and receive impulses.

• Music Videos
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Marko Belić

A story about an encounter between two individuals in an imaginary world – the Puppeteer and the Creature. The Puppeteer bides his time on his planet, longing for company. When a guest finally arrives, the Puppeteer expresses his happiness in many ways.

• Drama
• Abstract
• Experimental

by Iva Božić

Two alpinists, Ola and Bole, embark on the adventure of a lifetime – a winter ascent along the dangerous Messer-Schmidt route. But before they reached the top, they were forced to abandon further ascent. Desperate and losing hope of staying alive, they surrender to thoughts of a happier scenario. The animated film “comes true” of their wishes and the good old search for a better life begins.

• Drama
• Tragicomedy
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Goran Radošević

In a nameless city populated by featureless residents, which are driven by the energies both alien and insidious, revolving equinox of night and day takes place. Swaying between momentum and dullness, that never-changing cycle is represented by the neon commercials, which command every action of aforementioned residents and create their paradoxical and ouroboric reality.

• Drama
• Abstract
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Petra Balekić

A short animated film that puts the main focus on the instability of memory.

• Drama
• Tragedy
• Abstract
• Experimental

by Katrin Novaković

Protoplasm is the living substance of the cell. It is the fluid basis of life, an inner organism with thoughts and feelings. Everything pulsates, expands and contracts. Sometimes we reach out and contract at the same time, causing a conflict that prevents fluids from moving. Fear and anxiety arise, and we become immobile.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Lucija Bužančić

Process is an animated short about the process of animation as it’s taught in universities and art schools. It follows the path from the idea, or the concept that we are working on, through layout, storyboard, and scenario up to the final product – the film.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Non-narrative