The Focus

The auteur's birthplace as seen through his camera.

Experimental short.

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.

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

Experimental short.

"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.

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

Experimental short.

Experimental film by Ivan Martinac.

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.

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

Experimental short by Ivan Martinac.

An experiment with 'anti-language' in detail (in composition, in changing plans, in exposition, etc.). Proof that the general rhythm and those miraculous 'pixels' that are not seen in the projection really mean a lot, if not everything.