ABOUT THE MOVIE
Documentary film that questions contemporary social values. It has been filmed in three different high schools in Zagreb whereby Croatian students were involved in multilayered conversations about the socialist past of their country, religion and history they had learned intertwined with the students’ views on civil rights, the notion of freedom, current social, political and economic situation and their own future prospects. The conversations were set off by Poljak's film from 2011 titled Staging Actors/Staging Beliefs which contains the excerpts from the partisan film Boško Buha from 1979.
Renata Poljak
Renata Poljak (Split, Croatia, 1974) is a visual artist and director. She graduated in 1997 at the Art Academy in Split, and completed her post-graduate studies, AV creation, in 1999 at the Fine Arts Academy in Nantes (majoring in film and video). She exhibited works at numerous independent domestic and international exhibitions, film festivals and biennials. She is the recipient of numerous scholarships and awards, including the T-HT Award at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb in 2012. Her residencies include stays at the Art Institute of San Francisco, MuseumsQuartier in Vienna, Art In General in New York, Cité Internationale des Arts and Récollets in Paris, etc.
