The Cove

- Title: The Cove
- Year of production: 2021
- Duration: 18`
- Directors: Davor Konjikušić, Nika Petković
- Screenwriters: Davor Konjikušić, Nika Petković
- Camera: Davor Konjikušić
- Sound: Davor Zanoški
- Editing: Hrvoslava Brkušić
- Music: Hrvoje Radnić
- Producers: Davor Konjikušić, Nika Petković
- Production: Kolektor - Centar za vizualne umjetnosti , SNV - Srpsko Narodno Vijeće
The Cove is a film shot in the locale of Slana Bay, which was the site of the first concentration camp in the Independent State of Croatia. Located on the island of Pag, in the Barbat area, since antiquity until the present
day, this space has been marked by the activity of nature and human beings, who ultimately shaped the radical landscape of Slana – through logging, excessive grazing, the construction of the concentration camp and, more recently, exploitation for tourism. By connecting the landscape with its historical context, we highlight a complete contingency upon the effect of human beings. Simultaneously, the film examines the procedures of (historical) erasure and negation of a site of crime, which eternally inscribed itself into the rocky landscape in the summer of 1941. By traveling towards the past from today’s perspective, we urge for a perceptive commemoration and the re-examination of the political framework of the representation in which the absence of human life in fact signifies its enduring presence, while the empty space alludes to a site of crime.