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WILD FLOWERS

Karla Crnčević
Croatia, Spain, 2022
11 min.

“My father used a camera just once in his lifetime. After 30 years he asked me to digitise the VHS material he filmed. I was wondering what he remembers.” Connecting politics with intimate spaces, Wild Flowers questions both the influence of war on private archives and the role of gardens as places of new beginnings.

Thirty years after the beginning of the Yugoslav wars, Karla Crnčević proposes a fascinating confrontation of the memory image with the documentary image, each blurred and complementary to the other. Separately, neither of these two ways of remembering can survive the passage of time — one loses detail, the other loses sense of the context. But even more fascinating remains this thought we can extract from the film, hopeful thought in today’s world: war cannot annihilate everything. Not the flowers, not all flowers. (Călin Boto)

Data proiecție și locație

Wednesday, 27th of September | 20:30

Cinemateca Eforie, Strada Eforie 2
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Karla Crnčević

Karla Crnčević is a dramaturge and film worker exploring politics of images and sound through various formats and work conditions. Her video and film works have been exhibited and awarded in various countries. She is one of the founders of Unseen festival – dealing with revitalization of cinema spaces. She holds an MA in Dramaturgy (Academy of Drama Arts, Zagreb) and Filmmaking (EQZE, San Sebastian).

  • Technical sheet
  • Production and distribution
  • EDITING: Karla Crnčević
  • CAMERA: Private archive footage / Pavo Crnčević
  • MUSIC: Nenad Kovačić i Ane Paška
  • DESIGN: Mate Žaja
  • SOUND: Zoran Medved – Studio Surogat
  • PRODUCED BY: Elias Querejeta Zine Eskola

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“My father used a camera just once in his lifetime. After 30 years he asked me to digitise the VHS material he filmed. I was wondering what he remembers.” Connecting politics with intimate spaces, Wild Flowers questions both the influence of war on private archives and the role of gardens as places of new beginnings.

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