Critical Tourism: Spatial Remembrance (1)
Film program Critical Tourism: Spatial Remembrance is named after the film program How a Space remembers? from 2010., with which the grey) (area presented the films by Mihovil Pansini (1926-2015), for the first time in his home town, where all the films were shot.
On August 15 the program starts in the City of Korčula Summer Cinema with three new films by the member of grey) (area, the film director Ivan Ramljak. Two of the films were shot in Korčula. Conversation with author will be led by Petar Milat.
Program:
Mezostajun, 2018., 20'
Ships Still Don't Come Ashore, 2018., 2'46''
Home of the Resistance, 2018., 2018., 49'
Mezostajun
This documentary experimental film investigates spatial and temporal relations in the Mediterranean city of Korčula, in which the roles taken by public space differ according to a season.
The film tackles dramatic differences between the summer and winter life of the city. In the perception of a spectator the intertwined elements of summer and winter create a new, interstitial space called «mezostajun» (the Dalmatian version of mezzo stagione).
Ships Still Don't Come Ashore
In 1955 the legend of Croatian experimental cinema and founder of GEFF (Genre film festival, one of the two oldest experimental film festivals in Europe, held in Zagreb) Mihovil Pansini, made his short film about the inability of the escape from an island (and from yourself) 'Ships Don't Come Ashore'. 62 years later ships still don't come ashore in this 16mm tribute film made by his grandnephew.
Director and scriptwriter: Ivan Ramljak
Cinematographer: Smiljka Guštak
Producers: Vanja Jambrović, Tibor Keser
Editor: Ivor Šonje
Sound recordist: Hrvoje Radnić
Sound editing: Ivor Šonje
Production company: Restart
Home of the Resistance
In 1974, the communist authorities built the so-called „Memorial Home for WWII Resistance Fighters and Youth of Yugoslavia“ in Kumrovec – the hometown of the legendary president Tito. Following the collapse of Yugoslavia, the Memorial Home was closed in 1991, 11 years after Tito’s death. Still, a few fighters remain there.
Director. Ivan Ramljak
Screenplay: Ivan Ramljak
Cinematography: Jurica Marković
Editing: Ivor Šonje
Sound Design: Borna Buljević
Producer: Tibor Keser
Co-producer: Vanja Jambrović
Production: Akademija dramske umjetnosti (Zagreb)
Co-production: Restart
Croatian Distribution: Restart
About author
member of Grey Area, Ivan Ramljak is a film critic, director and independent curator. He currently curates a short film program called Kratki utorak ("Short Tuesday") at cinema Tuškanac in Zagreb. So far, he has directed eight short films, four fiction ones in collaboration with Marko Škobalj, and four documentaries by himself. His most successful film so far was 'Kino otok' (Islands of Forgotten Cinemas) which was screened on more than 25 international festivals, and won 6 awards, including the FIPRESCI prize for Best Eastern European documentary at goEast FF in Wiesbaden. In 2016 he enrolled the master study of documentary directing at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb. 'Ships Still Don't Come Ashore' is his ninth film.
