Atelier Diocletian

The auteur's birthplace as seen through his camera.

Experimental short.

The Focus is the film about easy death on the Mediterranean sun.

A short avantgarde film by Ivan Martinac.

Short experimental 16mm film.

Creating mystical cinematic supernovas through elaborate cutting techniques.

An archaeologist returns from Spain. Living alone, he goes about his daily rituals. A haunting leads to tragedy, raising further questions of the man’s life.

Eminently a montage film, Monologue on Split is Martinac’s cinematic manifest.

Experimental film by Ivan Martinac.

Way Out is dedicated to Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey.

"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.

Experimental short.

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.

The dance school in Split and maestro Juti - a legend of several generations who passed their "first waltz" at his school.

Experimental short by Ivan Martinac.

Meštrović (Exaltation of Matter), is a short film directed by Ivan Martinac, recorded in the production of Kino Club Split. He filmed it provoked by the teasing of Belgrade moviegoers who claimed that “mostly eating and drinking is done in the Split cinema club”, which was not far from the truth. Still, the wounded pride and anger took their toll, and in 1960 he filmed his first “Split” film — Meštrović (The Exaltation of Matter) with which he succeeded. At the international film festival in Vienna, he received a UNICA bronze plaque, the first international award received by amateur cinematography in Yugoslavia at the time.