Woods that Sing (Šume šume)

Renata Poljak

Renata Poljak (Split, 1974) is a visual artist and director. She graduated in 1997 at the Art Academy in Split, and completed her post-graduate studies, AV creation, in 1999 at the Fine Arts Academy in Nantes (majoring in film and video). She exhibited works at numerous independent domestic and international exhibitions, film festivals and biennials. She is the recipient of numerous scholarships and awards, including the T-HT Award at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb in 2012. Her residencies include stays at the Art Institute of San Francisco, MuseumsQuartier in Vienna, Art In General in New York, Cité Internationale des Arts and Récollets in Paris, etc.
A selection of the author's films was shown independently at the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris in 2010 as part of the Perspective Cinema program, and at the Palais de Tokyo, also in Paris, in 2012.
Three years in a row in 2019, 2020, 2021, Renata's three films Another Departure, Porvenir and Split premiered at the Oberhausen Film Festival, Germany. While Porvenir is the winner of 5 awards at film festivals.
For Kinoscope, Lars Henrik Gass (director of the International Short Film Festival in Oberhausen) included Porvenir in the Top 5 films for 2020.