Goli otok

  • Darko Bavoljak
  • Documentary
  • 2012
  • 51:28
  • Medium length

Synopsis

The documentary ‘Goli otok’ presents the history of the concentration camp built on an island at the Croatian northern seashore bearing the same name, during the clashes between Tito and Stalin from 1949 to 1955. The reconstruction of life at the camp and of the methods of political ‘re-building’ is based on the testimonies of the former prisoner Alfred Pal, while the words of the former general of the UDB (Yugoslavian secret political police) Jovo Kapičić reveal the ‘establishment’s’ view on the logics and the motives that led to the creation of the Camp. This documentary also reveals more than a few non-published documents of the Yugoslav secret services shedding new light on the consequences of the Tito-Stalin skirmish that spelled doom for the condemned ‘enemies of the state – Stalin’s allies’. The work tends to give more than one narrative angle to this problem, and to settle this phenomena in its political, historical and ideological context.

Directors

Darko Bavoljak

Darko Bavoljak was born in Zagreb in 1961. He graduated in Cinematography from the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb. He took up photography in the early 1980s. During his university career, he published photographs in Polet, Studentski list, Svijet, Start, and many other papers and journals of the time. Today, his activity has spread over the domains of photography, film, conceptual art, and curatorial concepts. His photographs are to be found in private collections, and in holdings of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb (MSU) and the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka (MMSU). Stupid Antonio Presents (2006), Bare Island (2012) and Urbi et Orbi (2013) stand out among the films Bavoljak has made. He is a member of the Croatian Freelance Artists' Association (HZSU) and the Croatian Association of Artists (HDLU).

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  • Year

  • 2012

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Art De Facto
Jakićeva 4, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
art@defacto.hr
www.artdefacto.hr

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  • 2012

Production contact

Art De Facto
Jakićeva 4, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
art@defacto.hr
www.artdefacto.hr