Croatia / 2018. / 26′ / Experimental-Documentary

Directed by: Leon Rizmaul

Production company: HRT

Abandoned, outdated machines tell a story from a record stored in a television archive. The action time is displayed through four cycles. Communication machines reproduce information about humans, their existence, their presence hermetically sealed in an era. When machines for reproduction die, their stories die with them. Stories of unfulfilled human aspirations and messages to future generations disappear in the entropy of the record. What can save us from the relentless river of oblivion?

 

 

Leon Rizmaul 

Born in 1972 in Sisak. Works at Documentary department of Croatian national TV. Among other things dedicates professional carrier to preservation and promotion of archival film footage. Editor in chief in everyday historical tv show TV Kalendar. From 2015 to 2018, directed the reconstruction of 50 episodes of archival series „Portraits and Encounters“. As a screenwriter, director and executive producer, he contributed to various festival film success. He directed popular films „The Other Side of Welles“ (2005), „Vukovar of My Youth“ (2012); „Goran’s way“ (2013)… As executive producer and screenwriter, he won several acclamations for three documentaries from „Probation serial“. In 2016 film called „4.7“ won Grand Prix at ZagrebDox as only Croatian winner in the history of that renowned festival. Member of Croatian film director’s guild.

 

 

 

 

 

*Belgrade premiere