Hrvoje Nikšić
Filmography
Some things never happened, and yet we remember them
2021
14:53
I am standing on my balcony and observing a house on the green hill which is situated exactly opposite me. I am thinking about the revolutionary design of the camera obscure by Leonardo da Vinci and that spot which, by the strength of light, passes the current state of things in. I am copying the […]
Do Not Trace, Draw!
2020
20:21
The Pioneer City was the product of both political and societal necessity — and it built and was built with the idea that education has to leave the confines of the ‘school’ and enter the city, i.e. everyday life, and thus produce the ‘new’ human for the new socialist society. When in 1947 groups of […]
Mountains
2018
11:56
The starting point for this work were the slides found at Zora Film, a company that produced educational films in the 1950s. Intended to be used as visual tools during geography classes, these images were taken in different parts of the world. However, the author choses to work with only one motif – that of […]
A Room for Living
2018
30:00
The film problematizes the space of the living room and the events that may have occurred there. These possible events, based on memory or on suppositions, have been recreated through sound – documentary footage, studio recordings and background noise – and they occur in real space and more or less realistic copies of a certain […]
A Brief Excursion
2017
75:09
Stola has been spending his summer in the sweltering haze of festival parties. But one day, he runs into Roko, an old acquaintance, who is on a mission to discover medieval frescoes at a nearby monastery. Roko convinces Stola and a random group of partygoers to join him in his search. However, when their bus […]
Quit Staring at My Plate
2016
101:02
When Marijana’s dominant father falls seriously ill, she takes over his role as the head of the family, taking care of her irresponsible mother and mentally disabled older brother. The new power hierarchy allows her to explore her sexuality and inner strength, giving her a taste of freedom.
A Very Brief Excursion
2014
15:51
Although Roko seems to know where he is going, it starts to become clear we are lost. In spite of this, I think it is best to keep going. That song by America, We Had No Real Summer Last Year comes back to me.
Non-Recyclable
2009
16:41
Fragments of the wishes, attitudes and views of the three bottle collectors in Zagreb. We collect bottles and impressions on the daily collecting route. Three people of different fate on the streets of Zagreb gather bottles. They collect them for different reasons and look at it differently. While they do, they talk about their everyday […]
