Andrija Pivčević

Trials and tribulations of a Croatian communist intellectual in the turbulent years before, during and after the Second World War.

Experimental short.

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.

A 8mm experimental short made in Kino Klub Split.

This meditation on transience, possessing a macabre and mysterious atmosphere, filled with a number of ambient motifs that are repeatedly succeeded by confounding silhouettes of human heads, is founded upon rhythmic contrasts and structural molding of film. In a brilliant sequence of images, the film evokes a sensation of leaving, abandoning.

Before a dynamic camera waitresses are rushing in all directions at the busy central Split train station, doing their daily work. The hectic atmosphere is amplified with cuts from face to face, movement to movement, transforming the film into a rhythmically programmed energetic trip.

"Exile" is a religious parable on death and dying, contrasting the burning of an old ship with images of a woman dying in a dark interior, and a suggestion of redemption in the images of city covered by snow.

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.