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August 6th, 2008

Film History

Two new books in the “Film studies” edition published by the Croatian Film Clubs' Association. “Caricature and Movement” by Midhat Ajanović (Croatian with English summary) comprises nine studies on animated film with a focus on the works by the Zagreb school of animation. “Film History — Early and Classic Period” (Croatian only) is the last work by Ante Peterlić, prolific author and influential film critic who passed away in 2007.

June 8th, 2008

Croatian Animation

Croatian Animation 2006-2008, a brochure produced for the International Animated Film Festival opening today in Annecy. The festival competition programe features the films “Morana” by Simon Bogojević Narath and “She Who Measures” by Veljko Popović, produced by Kenges in 2008.

Update: both films were awarded at the festival, with “Morana” receiving the Special Distinction Award and “She Who Measures” receiving the FIPRESCI Award. Our congratulations to both directors.

May 24th, 2008

Croatian cinema in Cannes

The Croatian Audiovisual Centre is the Government backed agency for the audiovisual sector in Croatia. It was established in 2008 with the aim of stimulating a successful and vibrant audiovisual industry as well as promoting the widest possible understanding of audiovisual works throughout Croatia. We have recently designed printed materials and a micro-website for their presentation of Croatian cinema at the Marche du Film in Cannes, which finished yesterday.

May 15th, 2008

Tonight in Paris

One of the last opportunities to see Compañía nacional de danza (España) perform “Alas”. After touring Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, South Korea and Australia, the shows at the Chatelet Theatre in Paris (May 12-16) will probably be the last performances of the ballet inspired by Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire movie. This is also one of the last chances to see Nacho Duato, one of the masters of contemporary ballet perform live on stage, alas

April 1st, 2008

Pointing nowhere

A wonderfull piece of recycled roadsign architecture spotted in Zrenjanin, Serbia. The function of the object is obscure, but our guess is it must be a tardis.

January 15th, 2008

25 FPS CFE

25 FPS international festival of experimental film and video 4th edition call for entries is out now

January 12th, 2008

Alas in Sydney

Sydney Festival presents the highly anticipated return of Spain's most celebrated dance company — Compañía Nacional de Danza (CND), advertised with warnings regarding the stroboscopic video-projections we designed for CND's “Alas” production. Inspired by the Wim Wenders 1987 film, Wings of Desire — the story of an angel wandering in post-war Berlin — “Alas” is a deeply poetic meditation on one of the most influential films of the 20th century. Produced in 2006 as a collaboration between celebrated choreographer Nacho Duato and theatre director Tomaz Pandur, “Alas” embarked on a world tour in June 2007 with performances in Seul and Goyang (South Korea), followed by shows in Den Haag which opened the 11th Holland Dance Festival in late October. Next performances: Barcelona (7-10/02/2008) and Paris (12-16/05/2008). Our recording of “Alas” is here

November 26th, 2007

From Bauhaus to Our House

Tom Wolfe's erudite protest against modern architecture remains fresh more than 25 years since its original publication and is particularly entertaining to read today, when the spectre of modernist dogma is haunting architecture and design once again. Our edition of Wolfe's classic is out now, translated to Croatian by Marina Leustek.

October 17th, 2007

Shadowcasting

Two weeks after winning the jury and audience awards at the BITEF festival in Belgrade, Shadowcasters perform Exposition at the abandoned Gorica factory in Zagreb where this extraordinary piece of intimist theatre was first staged at the operation:city festival in 2005. Above: our original murals for the performance, destroyed by fire some months ago. New Exposition dates here

October 4th, 2007

ESC 2008

More than 7000 people have signed an online petition to revoke the results of the Eurosong 2008 visual identity competition. Above: our proposal. Selected logo here

September 23rd, 2007

25 FPS 2007

Third edition of 25 FPS international festival of experimental film and video opens in Zagreb on September 25th, featuring six competition programmes, retrospectives by Kenneth Anger, Mathias Müller, Chris Shepherd and numerous special screenings.
Full programme here

September 13th, 2007

Unplugged

Goran Petercol's “Unplugged” monography of works on paper has been selected for the Best Designed Books From All Over the World exhibition organised by Stiftung Buchkunst, Frankfurt. Other Croatian finalists include Anicic-Dominis dizajn_ured, Igor Kuduz, Alfred Pal and Bacharach&Kristofic. The exhibition is to take place in Frankfurt (October 2007) and Leipzig (March 2008) and the selected books will later become part of the Deutsches Buch- und Schriftmuseum archive.