The experimental film NOWhere poetically explores the personal experience of departure/return and rebuilding identities. Dramaturgy consists of two backbones – a scene portraying a sculpture Before dawn by Neli Ružić and the monument of Bogdan Bogdanović The Guardian of Freedom, both of which were set up at the Klis fortress during the different moments in history, given up to entropy and social changes. The conditions in which these sculptures have been found activate the archeology of time, invisible and erased history. The relationship of these two sculptures and the non-linear time flow is emphasized with mirrors interventions through visual and textual quotations of Robert Smithson’s Mirror Displacements series.
Crew
scriptwriter/director Neli Ružić
script contributors Marjan Alčevski, Ivana Meštrov
camera Boris Poljak
editing Neli Ružić
music Ricardo Cortés
narration Neli Ružić
sound designer Tonči Bakotin/Studio Sensoria
producer Dijana Mlađenović
Festivals 25 FPS Festival– 14th International Experimental Film And Video Festival, 2018, Zagreb; Split Film Festival – International Festival of New Film, 2018, Split; The Signes de Nuit – Festival International de Cinéma, 2018, Paris, France; Sharjah film Platform, Sharjah Art Foundation, 2019, Sharjah, UAE
Signs Award – Cinema in Transgression Competition
Exhibitions Refreshing Memory / When Monuments Revive/ Kad spomenici ožive, Gerija Nova / SKD Prosvjeta, Zagreb, October 2019 ; Nigdina / NOWhere, Galerija Prozori, Zagreb, December, 2019