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DAYS OF CROATIAN CINEMA 2002

Film Animation: A Production Rise

Once a strong animation environment in Croatia (’Zagreb School of Animation’) has been vegetating for the last two decades. The nineties have seen quite a lively production of short films (documentary, short feature, and experimental), whereas the animated production had somehow lost direction and creative vitality. Occasional exceptions (Nicole Hewitt and Daniel Šuljić) only emphasized the fact that there was an creative potential in Croatia, but the atmosphere was stale and not very stimulative. This year, however, some changes occurred.

The production has gotten stronger, many new authors have appeared, and although there were not outstanding films, there were some exellent work, the production varied and most films had some inspirational moments. The most important animation films were Goran Trbuljak’s cartoon As if by Some Sort of Miracle (2002), a story of two idle men sitting in a coffee shop reading the newspapers while at the same time some intriguing and funny episodes take place on the street behind them, and the puppet film House of Dolls (young Goran Šković, 2002), a dark, horror-parody, in which real dolls were used as puppets. Other films have also shown potential, so that for the first time in fifteen years it could be said that the overall quality of this year’s production equalled that of the best years of the School of Animated Film.



Hrvoje Turković

Short Feature Film: Consolidation Cocktail
Documentary Film: Does Quantity translate into Quality?
Experimental Film: Der Experiment ist nicht aus (The Experiment Is not Over)
Commercials and Video Clips: Biased Marginalization
FILMOGRAPHY OF DAYS 2002
AWARDS OF DAYS 2002
HOW THE CRITIC’S AWARD WAS VOTED AT THE DAYS 2002

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