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Ivan Slipčević
Filmography
Do Not Trace, Draw!
2020
20:21
The Pioneer City was the product of both political and societal necessity — and it built and was built with the idea that education has to leave the confines of the ‘school’ and enter the city, i.e. everyday life, and thus produce the ‘new’ human for the new socialist society. When in 1947 groups of […]
Lieber Augustin
2018
19:16
The film follows the daily routine of two German soldiers. Seemingly ordinary and friendly people, these film buffs talk movies to take their minds off of the horrifying assignments they are given.
Mountains
2018
11:56
The starting point for this work were the slides found at Zora Film, a company that produced educational films in the 1950s. Intended to be used as visual tools during geography classes, these images were taken in different parts of the world. However, the author choses to work with only one motif – that of […]
A Room for Living
2018
30:00
The film problematizes the space of the living room and the events that may have occurred there. These possible events, based on memory or on suppositions, have been recreated through sound – documentary footage, studio recordings and background noise – and they occur in real space and more or less realistic copies of a certain […]
Almost Nothing
2016
15:47
As Jean-Luc Nancy says, our pleasure in views, scents, and sounds has been a political issue since the birth of Europe. The idea of landscape has nothing in common with the idea of unspoiled nature. Landscapes are formed through planned deforestation, afforestation, and controlled planting. These processes are influenced by economic, health care, and other […]
The Trap
2013
25:00
A naked middle-aged man walks out of the sea and starts climbing the steep rocks of a deserted island. He walks through an abandoned underground tunnel and descends to a large, empty sandy beach where his younger wife and 6-year old daughter are waiting. Their mutual inability to communicate is witnessed by an interested but […]
Postcards
2013
23:22
The curriculum for teaching Croatian as a foreign language emphasizes the use of role play, drama, expressive reading, staging fairy tales, writing and reading postcards. In combination with textbook for learning Croatian as a foreign language and postcards sent from the United States to Croatia, these teaching methods become the starting point of improvised and […]
Liberation in 26 Pictures
2009
17:54
A forgotten old partisan lives a lonely life. His only interests are observing his neighbours and sumo. One day something he sees through his WW2 binoculars makes him set out on his last guerilla mission.
The Market
2006
9:31
Market shoppers use all of their senses when trying to ascertain whether the groceries are local or imported. The privileging of local produce over imported goods is ever present regardless of whether or not the groceries actually are better, this follows to lines of argument – that by buying Croatian produce they are supporting Croatian […]
The Smartest Neighborhood in the Country
2001
9:07
A television crew is coming to Siget, a neighbourhood in Zagreb, to investigate a strange phenomenon that has struck its residents.
