Kino Klub Split

A meditation on transience composed through juxtaposition of sun-bathed exteriors of Split and dark interiors, landscapes of the city and close-ups of human faces, movements and stillness, the material and the spiritual.

Eminently a montage film, Monologue on Split is Martinac’s cinematic manifest.

Briefly depicted fragments from the characters' lives, through summer and winter, as each of them suffers a loss. Cinematic meditation on inevitable loss.

Hundreds of frozen and starved people floating on boats in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea fleeing from the war... Familiar scenes that we are used to seeing in recent times. But the year is 1944, and the refugees are travelling from Europe to Africa. After Italian capitulation,and before the arrival of German army, 28 000 Dalmatian Croats left their home villages and towns to live for two years under the tents in the middle of Egyptian desert, in a kind of a communist model village that was formed to show the Allies how the new Yugoslavia will look like when the war ends. This is a story about them.

Roza is looking for a new roommate. Karmen is looking for refuge.

A film within a film within a film within a fish.

Experimental film by Ivan Martinac.

After a tourist faints in front of his home, Marinko's life is changed forever as he's forced to face his loneleyness.

After Zvone gets diagnosed with dementia, he tries his hardest to cling to the remaining pieces of the memories he still has left within him because he doesn't wish to loose his identity. His son Neno is heartbroken at her father's state and decides to take over as the new head of the household, despite the role reversal being as much of a shock to him as it is to his father.

Experimental short.

Experimental film by Ivan Martinac.

Roko and Mirela are friends from Split. A big music festival is taking place in the city and Mirela wants to go.

Break-dance trash musical comedy/parody based on William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet.

Experimental short.

Way Out is dedicated to Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Compressing one idle day in the life of a young artist by rotating the camera through his room, a sort of a self-portrait of Lordan Zafranović resembles a one-shot film, its grainy photography and moody music suggesting a meditative atmosphere characteristic for Split authors of his generation.

An experiment with 'anti-language' in detail (in composition, in changing plans, in exposition, etc.). Proof that the general rhythm and those miraculous 'pixels' that are not seen in the projection really mean a lot, if not everything.

Experimental short by Ivan Martinac.

The camera follows four people, musicians, on their walk through the city, seemingly in real time. They go through photogenic city squares and streets and end up at the beach.

Meštrović (Exaltation of Matter), is a short film directed by Ivan Martinac, recorded in the production of Kino Club Split. He filmed it provoked by the teasing of Belgrade moviegoers who claimed that “mostly eating and drinking is done in the Split cinema club”, which was not far from the truth. Still, the wounded pride and anger took their toll, and in 1960 he filmed his first “Split” film — Meštrović (The Exaltation of Matter) with which he succeeded. At the international film festival in Vienna, he received a UNICA bronze plaque, the first international award received by amateur cinematography in Yugoslavia at the time.