An archaeologist returns from Spain. Living alone, he goes about his daily rituals. A haunting leads to tragedy, raising further questions of the man’s life.
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.
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.
Before a dynamic camera waitresses are rushing in all directions at the busy central Split train station, doing their daily work. The hectic atmosphere is amplified with cuts from face to face, movement to movement, transforming the film into a rhythmically programmed energetic trip.
This meditation on transience, possessing a macabre and mysterious atmosphere, filled with a number of ambient motifs that are repeatedly succeeded by confounding silhouettes of human heads, is founded upon rhythmic contrasts and structural molding of film. In a brilliant sequence of images, the film evokes a sensation of leaving, abandoning.
"Exile" is a religious parable on death and dying, contrasting the burning of an old ship with images of a woman dying in a dark interior, and a suggestion of redemption in the images of city covered by snow.
The concept of the film "People (Passing) II" can best be described as an ultimate dynamic of visual and acoustic rhythm with a texture which consists of people passing, standing, sitting, laying, swinging, fukmed by static, mobile, at times intrusive, but always with a highly suggestive camera.
A film about the dominance of time and space over a human being. A poetic reflection on the transience of material life characterized by a Mediterranean ambience, contemplation, mosaic structure, and repetitive editing patterns.