23.LFF
Opatija
26.-30.08.2025.

Film

Ivan Delimar's Rope Workshop

LFF18, In competition

ABOUT THE MOVIE

The film "Ivan Delimar’s Rope Workshop" deals with the process of burying the workshop of Vlasta Delimar’s late father on the estate in Štaglinec near Koprivnica, the cult place of Vlasta's art festival. Father Ivan Delimar stated: "When I die, bury me on my property, under the tree, next to the workshop." As it is not allowed to bury human bodies in one's own yard, Vlasta buried his father's workshop on the property. The film emphasizes the rawness of demolishing and burying a house in relation to the private and public symbolism of the place as well as the idea of a new beginning through destruction as a creative, aesthetic and creative act.

Vlasta Delimar

Vlasta Delimar is a multimedia artist born in Zagreb in 1956. On her own land in Štaglinec near Koprivnica, she led the international performance festival from 2005-2015. Through photo collage and performance, in recent years she has begun to use the medium of film in the form of a documentary essay.

Title: Ivan Delimar's Rope Workshop
Year of production: 2020
Duration: 20
Director: Vlasta Delimar
Screenplay: Vlasta Delimar
Photography: Kruno Povijač
Editing: Denis Golenja
Sound design: Denis Golenja
Music: OKI
Production: Zvonimir Dobrović
Production company: Domino