ONLY LOVERS LEAVE TO DIE

AWARD-WINNING FILM & ONE OF TOP TEN CANADIAN FILMS OF 2020

After being screened at Oscar qualifying festivals like Hiroshima, Animafest Zagreb, Ottawa, Raindance, HAFF and thirty more, the film was selected for the EyeCANdy programme as one of top ten Canadian contemporary animations in 2020. The film won multiple international awards and was critically acclaimed for aestheticism that comes greatly off the beaten path, continuous risk-taking and experimental way of playing with the raw material of the cinema. It was also curated for the Big Art Toronto 2020 festival where it was projected on a building as a piece of public art. 

CATCHING A LION

SHORT FICTION (2014)

Besides being shown at numerous film festivals including Oscar qualifying BFI London Film Festival, the film was long listed for the Jutra award and was a finalist for Bell Media award in 2014. It was also acquired by Italian Mediaset TV and distributed worldwide. The film was shot on 35mm film and sponsored by Canadian Council for Arts, Kodak and Technicolor.

HELIOLA

MUSICAL INSTRUMENT WITH LASER STRINGS (2021)

While being played on the beams of light, Heliola converts hand gestures into photons that create music. This is the first prototype of my photophonic musical instrument which is played on beams of light and acts like an optical synth that can be patched to any musical VSTs. I’ve built it with photocells, lasers and a couple of microchips.

MIRROR WITHOUT ORGANS

MIXED-MEDIA INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION

4x6x1m / 2021 

The artwork’s primary concern is deconstruction of the conventional film language while questioning the form and materiality of a film frame. Spectators are invited to move freely around the installation and subvert the projection with their shadows. The subversion creates random film frames of different shapes and sizes made by chance and audience interaction. The photosensitive spheres are interactive in relation to both the audience’s touch and the light from the video projection. They control both the video projection and generation of random sounds while establishing spectators as collaborators in the creation of the artwork.

TREE OF SEAS

SHORT EXPERIMENTAL FICTION (2016)

A short experimental doc about an underwater sculpture I built on my ancestral island of Pag.

MEMORIES OF NOW

INTERACTIVE DOME CINEMA PERFORMANCE (2016)

The project visualizes human emotions hidden in the memories of the past in a form of immersive dome videos. Memories are perceived as abstract landscapes and emotions as characters speaking the language of sound, music and colours. The project tends to create a collective ‘memory of now’, resulting from the interaction of the audience with with the interactive interface that controls the immersive dome video. The interface is a separate work of art and represents an abstract snapshot of director’s memory, and it allows spectators to contribute to a collective work of audiovisual art – Memories of Now.

EXPERIMENTAL VIOLENCE

AWARD-WINNING EXPERIMENTAL FICTION (2010)

After winning numerous international awards and screenings around the world at festivals like Locarno, the film was acquired by Short Shorts TV and screened at Museum of Arts and Crafts and MOMA in Zagreb.