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Arabesque

Arabeska

Damir Čučić | Croatia | 2004 | 11' | | IFFR 2005

The film follows and metrically structures the geometry of the city surface and traffic directions, using the tram as a time capsule and the opening of the tram window as a frame of the urban landscape shot in movement.

Also in this combined programme

  • Navigation

    Encyclopaedic collection of references to water evoke memroes of lines of verse from Virgil’s Aenead.

  • Hand of the Master

    2D and 3D pictures, combined with ‘live action’: a magic cyberspace world.

  • Glenn Miller 2000

    Intriguing and hypnotic images of a busy roundabout in Zagreb.

  • Absence

    Visually complicated reflection on a universal theme: banishment and rootlessness, pain and sorrow.

  • Das Lied ist aus

    Macabre sketch of a city that has been destroyed by irrational powers and an invisible murderer.

  • In/Dividu

    The deconstruction, decay and disintegration of the soulful and soulless.

  • Parken verboten

    Reactions by passers-by to a binary code, formed by black and white parked cars.

  • The Letter

    A video letter, in which the author sends electronic flashes with his hands.
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Film details

Country of production
Croatia
Year
2004
Festival edition
IFFR 2005
Length
11'
Medium/Format
Betacam SP PAL