ABOUT THE MOVIE
The place of abandoned views, nature and landscapes, the location in Lika near Perušić is initially the place of departure and return for Jelena. The consequences of people leaving that region for economic reasons, the need for education, progress, better future meant that the course of time cannot be stopped, a constant change and leaving the past behind. The created distance accentuated the attachment to that type of landscape, to past times, the confrontation with the inability to turn back the process and return.
While watching the film material on 16 mm filmstrip which examines appropriate way, method and approach to the landscape, we go through the abandoned, deserted, depopulated spaces and reflect on layers and sediments of memory, forgetting, karst, land cultivating, burnt fields, cultivation, farming.
Ana Hušman
Ana Hušman deconstructs the structure and texture of film elements in her work through various forms, including film, installations, books, image recordings, sound, and text. She experiments with animation possibilities, as well as documentary and fiction elements in film, voice, and articulation. Within her creative processes, she explores and challenges the positions of amateur and professional subjects in performativity, the medium itself, and the structures that dictate and produce behavioral patterns.
She works as an associate professor at the Department of Animated Film and New Media at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. She is a co-founder of the RESTART association, where she has been leading film education programs for both children and adults for many years. Since 2003, she has been a member of the artistic organization Pangolin. Her works have received multiple national and international awards and have been showcased in numerous solo and group exhibitions, as well as film festivals worldwide.
