Author's Evening: Hrvoje Hribar

“In feature films, the director is God; in documentary f ilms, God is the director”. That’s what Alfred Hitchcock used to say, and that’s probably what Hrvoje Hribar thinks as well, which perhaps explains the fact that the hyper-committed Croatian director made only two documentaries during his long career. To be frank, there weren’t many more fictional f ilms either, because he invested a lot of creative time and energy in directing the new Croatian cinematography. And his documentaries were not very “pure” documentaries either, meaning he did not allow God to interfere too much in his work, even when he was directing “real” reality. The multiaward-winning medium-length documentary Once There Was a Man, from 2001, in its very title makes it clear that in the portrait of the famous fisherman and his experimental Greater Amberjack hunting – where God nevertheless “helped” to fill the hard-earned f ishing net in front of the camera (which does not lie) with hard-to-catch fish − there will be present the essence of both confabulation and “forced” reality. And we will talk about documentation and (con)fabulation with the director at his author’s evening.

- Diana Nenadić, host

Once There Was a Man

Hrvoje Hribar

2001, '43

Friday 19.04. / 16:00 / Kaptol Boutique Cinema / Hall 2