23.LFF
Opatija
26.-30.08.2025.

Film

Noćna

LFF10, Out of competition, Restart films

ABOUT THE MOVIE

Night... shift, story, street. This is a short, experimental documentary about street cleaners in Zagreb in form of a densely packed photo essay (consisting of 887 photos) that adopts stop-motion animation for creating a timeline. The high-pressure street cleaners are presented in their two typical sceneries: in the city that is loud but empty, and in the spaces of the company's premises that are full but silent, like the filling department or the cloakroom. The repetitive, highly aestheticized frames depicting pressure-washing, in contrast with the unexpected, unsilenced, dark tone, introduce the long-familiar, everyday traits of the street cleaners. The ending is nothing but a mere intentional oversight based on the impression that the work of a street cleaner is never finished, but only put on hold until the following night.

Lucija Bušić

Lucija Bušić was born in 1985 in Zagreb, the city she returns to after each and every journey, time and again. At the age of 24 she graduated from the Faculty of Economics and Business in Zagreb and shortly after started working as a photographer for tportal, where she has been employed ever since. By drawing a line between the digital and the analogue, Lucija prefers separating her professional from her private work, whereby the former makes room for the latter.

Title: Noćna
Year of production: 2012
Duration: 5
Director: Lucija Bušić
Screenplay: Lucija Bušić
Production company: Restart Laboratorij