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Striking black-and-white animation traces the expansion of creatures from land, sea, and air. A film premiering at Klik Animated Film Festival.

The water reached up to our necks, and very soon, over our heads. The mountains became islands and the islands became hills in the darkness of the deep. The palms became sea anemones and the sea anemones remained what they were. The Wall Street was still full of sharks. Venice floated a while longer, and then… If a global catastrophe is a state of mind, then music is the raft.

Who am I, what is my real nature? If my real nature puts no one in jeopardy, what is stopping me from living a life that is full, perhaps the only one I’ll get?

Animated film by Marko Tadić reflects his interest in producing imaginary, fictive narrative worlds that are exploring models of the history and future alterations. This animation is a part of the installation combining cut-outs and objects, and refers to several literary SF classics.

Short animated film.

What is this force that defies gravity, a force so powerful that drives plants to reach up and imbues us with the strength to sail against the current? If we let go to its upward motion, it carries us to a wonderful ease. Raise your sail and catch the leeway...

Moving Elements focuses on the creative processes that lead to making art. A car passes through all the stages of creative art process and becomes part of art works, as well as a player in abstract processes of creating. The film is meant as a tribute to filmmakers and films made in the golden age of the Zagreb School of Animation. To a certain extent it uses a visual language characteristic of the period – the 1960s and the 1970s.

Animals from Eastern Europe for the Italian food/meat industry used to be transported to the towns along the state border in Northeast Italy. From those conveyor-belt spaces of death, only one animal managed to come in and out alive.

In the “White Horse” café, waitress and guests apathetically go through their routines. Meanwhile, the reality surrounding them seems to destabilise more and more: between white noise and the sound of tuning forks, between daydreams of galloping knights and ever-growing mountains of drizzling packet sugar. Ivana Bošniak Volda and Thomas Johnson Volda pile up layers of these images and sounds, until they crack – and clear the way to breathe.

A grandiose transoceanic cruise liner sails the seas.

Horizon is an intimate story about the sea in the midst of an ecological crisis. In the collective imagination, the open sea and its isolated islands have always been a place of longing, contemplation, escape, even salvation. But, can these places still provide an escape in a time of global warming and pollution? This film essay, shot on the remotest and most isolated island in the Adriatic, observes the primordial seascape and the layered environmental changes that surround it.

A surrealist animated film.

A ghostly lo-fi work about an apparent seance.

Experimental animated short film which combines pictorial elements in order to dialogue with our recent history and the ancestral times.

This short poetic fantasy tale describes the incredible life of a mystic man believed to have lived for several centuries. He spent all this time visiting cities and historically important sites, where he instigated unusual changes. A graceful and evocative painted animation on postcards creates a film about the fictionalisation of memories, symbols of identity and immortality.

Short animated film about one particular worker of Sisak ironworks.

L.H.D.'s song Tzar of Premantura inspired this stop-frame animation showing the fictional process of healing and repairing a city (Sisak, Croatia) that had lost its former industrial strength and overall beauty. After the war and privatization came the pandemic and the earthquake that left the city scarred. But, broken and forgotten things can be fixed.

An animated short drawn in chalk.

Filmed on 16mm film, this visual expression is rooted in its archival materials and backed up by the poem by Hans Magnus Enzensberger. It speaks of the forgotten people, their lives and their deeds. These two Archives have been found on the flea market in Zagreb. One is of a famous architect and the other one is of a famous composer. This film ponders on this occurrence, on the vanishing of and forgetfulness of humans.

An idyllic day trip to the countryside unexpectedly turns into a test of a romantic couple’s relationship.