These are the projects selected for inspirational session in Rijeka

A month after the call for proposals for participants of the workshop / first session of the platform for the development of hybrid AV creativity REFINERI, evaluation jury has declined on eight projects / authors who will inspire from 23rd to 27th April in Rijeka.

It will be projects of four citizens of Rijeka – Kristina Barišić, Marta Ožanić, Sandra Polić Živković and Zoran Krema – then the project of Irena Čurik from Zagreb, and three projects of foreign authors, Dženan Medanović (BiH), Ina Ferlan (Slovenia) and Tatyana Sobol (Russia).

These projects are invited to the workshop among more than 30 submitted. For the organizers of the platform – the Association UKUS – it meant a satisfaction with the positive response but also put them on the sweet torment of selection.

“Project applications were colorful: from pure fiction form, through conceptual pieces and sci – fi visions to the vast transmedia opus. Selected projects are wide-ranging, as was the intention. Selection includes already renowned filmmakers, but also less experienced creative artists .”, evaluation jury led by Željka Suková and Aleš Suk said.

PROJECTS :
“Just a Dream” (Dženan Medanović, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo ) is a story about life, death and a dream, about the person who lives and dies in a dream of one nation.

“Person of view” (Ina Ferlan, Slovenia, Ljubljana) starts from a position of a deaf dancers who feels music through vibrations, and asks: who has a clearer perception, a deaf person with developed precise observation or a person with all the senses?

“Astir” (Irena Čurik, Croatia, Zagreb) takes the trip from Pula to Villefranche – de – Rouergue, cities that share the story of a communist monument.

“Lunch at sofa” (Kristina Barišić, Croatia, Rijeka) is a diptych on interpersonal relationships and transience, composed of “Lunch” during which important news becomes irrelevant dash, and of “Sofa” which becomes a protagonist.

“The news” (Marta Ožanić, Croatia, Rijeka) draws the inspiration from a recent incident in which a group of adolescents vandalized elementary school Pećine in Rijeka, and from the way in which the news was recieved by observers/the public.

“Pole rising” (Sandra Polić Živković, Croatia, Rijeka) is a film about everyday women struggle narrated from the position of the pole dancers.

“Carroll in Russia” (Tatyana Soboleva, Russia, Moscow) follows a strict Oxford professor of mathematics who has disturbed his perfectly organized life line by the decision to travel to Russia.

“Rosemarie” (Zoran Krema, Croatia, Rijeka) is a movie about two lovers who met over the internet exactly 50 years from their last encounter, and decided once again to dance to “My Sailor”.

Congratulations to all the participants!