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CHASING THE SUN: EL SHATT

Ana Bilankov
Croatia, 2023
19 min.

Using materials from Croatian and international archives and intertwined with present-day visuals of this desert non-place, Chasing the Sun: El Shatt attempts to reconstruct a fragmented memory and touches on historical facts about El Shatt, the largest refugee camp in the Sinai desert in Egypt during WWII.

A lo-fi exploration of a Croatian community evacuated to the Middle East during the German invasion of Yugoslavia, Chasing the Sun: El Shatt runs on an electro-alarming soundscape, repetitive but not mechanical. People, spaces, places. What is it about the sound that makes the desertedness feel so powerful? It probably has something to do with a striking contrast: the earth is empty, but the wind is roaming aimlessly, as if a form of presence. Like a kaleidoscope of displacement, Croatian filmmaker Ana Bilankov’s short film subtly lends itself to the thrill creeping beneath the bones. What is it about people that they can survive in the most hostile of environments? What is it about people that they are constantly subordinate to others and wish, in turn, to dominate? (Emil Vasilache) 

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Saturday, 30th of September | 18:30

Cinema Elvire Popesco, Bd. Dacia, nr. 77
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Ana Bilankov

Ana Bilankov (Berlin / Zagreb) is a visual artist and filmmaker working with experimental film, photography and video installation. She studied Art History and German Language and Literature at the Universities of Zagreb and Mainz and completed postgraduate studies at the University of the Arts in Berlin. She has shown her work in many exhibitions, and has won numerous international scholarships and several awards in film and video festivals.

  • Technical sheet
  • Production and distribution
  • SCREENPLAY: Ana Bilankov
  • CINEMATOGRAPHY: Boris Poljak
  • EDITING: Denis Golenja
  • SOUND: Yiannis Loukos
  • MUSIC: Halim El-Dabh
  • SUPPORTED BY: Hrvatski audiovizualni centar (HAVC)
  • PRODUCED BY: Filmska udruga Šuma
  • PRODUCTION: Vedran Šuvar

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