International documentary film festival
March 30 - April 6, 2025
Kaptol Boutique Cinema, Zagreb

I Would Rather Be a Stone (Radije bih bila kamen)

Ana Hušman

I Would Rather Be a Stone

Through the voice of Little Jela, the film tells the story of the events that marked a generation and shaped the future of the landscape of Lika, a neglected and sparsely populated region of Croatia. Observing the landscape and models of cohabitation between living and non-living entities, the director examines the ways in which memories are built, how narratives are created and how they disappear. Using cinematic layering, triple exposures, family archives and combinations of photographs and videos, Hušman overlaps textures of events, characteristics and sedimentations of memories. The film explores the ways in which political, economic, ecological and cultural circumstances impact the openness of the narrative, of the people, and of other beings.

Croatia 2024, '24

DIRECTOR: Ana Hušman

SCENARIO: Ana Hušman

CAMERA: Ivan Slipčević

MONTAGE: Iva Kraljević

MUSIC: Ivan Zelić

PRODUCERS: Ana Hušman

PRODUCTION: Pangolin

FESTIVALS & AWARDS:

IFF Rotterdam (2024) 
Vilnius IFF (2024)

Ana Hušman

Ana Hušman

Ana Hušman’s practice disassembles the structures and textures of cinematic elements through film, installation, books, sound, image and text. Hušman experiments with the possibilities of animation, documentary and fictional cinematic methods, and the possibilities of recorded voice and its articulation. Her working process questions and plays with the positions of the amateur and the professional subject of performativity, the medium itself, and the structures that dictate and produce patterns of behaviour. She teaches at the Department of Animation and New Media at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, and is a co-founder of the documentary film organisation RESTART where she has been holding film education programs for children and young people for many years. Since 2003, she is a member of Pangolin, an artist-run organisation working in film, visual arts and research practices, where she produces films, books and other works. Her works have been shown at film festivals and exhibitions worldwide.
Filmography: I Would Rather Be a Stone (2024), A Room for Living (2018), I Love You, Ines (2017), Almost Nothing (2016), Postcards (2013), Football (2011), Lunch (2008), The Market (2006), Prigruf (2004), Home (2003), Merspajz (2003), for 2 (2003), Daily Progress (1999).

 

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