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Browse 54 movies from Kino Klub Zagreb
A cat trying to nap.
Jul 2024
A snappy animated diversion turns simple graphic symbols into colorful arrows of resistance. In the field of the rudimentary predecessor of the Internet, the author uses the tried and tested tactic of détournement in order to overcome the limitations of narrowly defined frameworks and transform the screen into a space of new meanings and the scene of a battle against the banalization of the mind. A battle that may have already been lost, but that does not mean that we can afford to lose the sharpness of the senses and the sharp sense of humor that the author demonstrates by repurposing outdated media technology in order to lucidly mock her and our reconciliation with the given state of affairs.
Jun 2024
The film consists of three sequences shot by a fixed camera: the first shows the balcony of a hospital with patients (soundtrack from the film "Vivre sa vie" by Jean-Luc Godard), the second is a scraped wall and the third is a crossroad with pedestrians and cars (sound taken from the film "The Time-Machine " by George Pal).
Jun 1963
Reptiloid starring Marin Mandir, Goran Kramaric, and Goran Dujmic. A giant, Komodo dragon-like lizard is hunting a police officer in the middle of a forest.
Dec 2013
An experimental staged documentary.
Jan 1966
Envolves around the mysterious death of a female librarian.
Jan 2018
Milan Šamec was a member of conservative stream in the Zagreb Cine Club, the one that denied and mocked the “anti-film”. Termites were made as an absurd demonstration that anyone can make an experimental film. He took the film, exposed it unevenly, and called the dance of visual stains that resulted — termites, because that’s what they reminded him of.
Jan 1963
I walk through empty corridors and dance with the light. I erase myself from every frame and meet all versions of myself. Evanescence is a reflection on death and transience from the point of view of a person remaining behind. It is a film about the search for identity in an ever-changing world, whose future itself is increasingly uncertain. The death enforces the awareness of the inexorable nature of transience. Enfolded by space that is in a state of constant flux, endlessly emerging and disappearing, the author too fluctuates with it.
A collection of interviews with several people who had experianced filicide commited by the hands of their partners, analyzing topics of lost love, the crime's psychologycal impact and asking the question of "Can a parent ever forgive the killer of their child?".
May 2026
First breath is a decision. Each subsequent breath is a struggle for a goal still not in sight. A struggle for life. He is a former professional runner. A marathon runner. He reveals his suffering, pain and effort which are crucial elements of each and every race.
Jan 2014
Zagreb as seen through the reflections of shop windows.
Jan 1969
Two friends, Cigo and Max, are traveling to the seaside in an old car that Max inherited from his late grandpa. What begins as a trip to the seaside takes some weird and unforeseen turns.
Dec 2011
Maja and Alen live in a dilapidated apartment on the outskirts of the city. Even if they wanted more from life, they don't have much hope because the company Maja works for is in debt and doesn't pay their salaries, while Alen, who works from home, has less and less work. That is why they start their own business whose survival is put in question when Maja discovers that security cameras will soon be installed in her company.
Jul 2022
After being away for a long time, Matija returns to Osijek to resolve an issue that has recently come up. During those few days he confronts issues from the past.
Sep 2021
An audiovisual weave in which an animated line represents the warp, while the female voice represents the filling. She who weaves and that what is woven intertwine through time.
Jun 2016
Short by Mihovil Pansini.
A film on the edge of genres, both a home movie about the author's young daughter up to her second birthday, and a structural film.
Jan 1972
Gravitational waves are passing through every existing dimension, even the almost undetectable ones. The scientific experiment, in its basic utilitarian nature, is aimed at the understanding of the multidimensional structure of things and has the potential for an uncanny experience. The device has successfully detected the unknown dimension at an infinitesimal scale and set up the parameters for magnification and tracking of all the activities in the ambient of non-place visible to us. By its typology, the universal architecture of non-place is optimised for documenting the unknowable and determining the topology of the unexpected. The film follows the course of the intense activities of the entities present in the N dimension that generate a sort of beyond-human experience.
Sep 2018
A short amateur film by director T. Ivančić.
Jan 1971
Short observations of one or more journeys, somebody's smile and a dog.
Jun 2020