Regional Competition

Simpl

Silvestar Kolbas
Screening time  
28.02. / Tuesday, 19:00 - 21:00 Theatre 2  
03.03. / Friday, 12:00 - 14:00 Theatre 4  
04.03. / Saturday, 16:00 - 18:00 Theatre 4  
The film portrays the artistic lives of four graffiti artists.

The film portrays the artistic lives of four graffiti artists – their creative process, assumptions about the society and how they define their own position within it. Zipo is an artist who works on controlled surfaces, e.g. trains. Simpl draws graffiti on the roofs in order to avoid communication with passers-by. Nebitno writes messages, short sentences and phrases that can take on completely new meanings in the context of the town and passers-by. Mane Mei is halfway between being legal and illegal. His endeavours could fit the term street art. Bitno is more open and keen to be recognized. The film is to a larger extent a portrait of invented tags than it is of persons that created and breathed life into them.

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Silvestar Kolbas

Silvestar Kolbas, born in 1956 in Petrovci, Croatia, is a cinematographer, photographer and film director. In 1982, he graduated in Film and TV Camera from the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb, where he works today as full professor. He made his debut as a cinematographer in Živorad Tomić’s fiction film Diploma for Death (1989) and as a director in 2003 with the notable autobiographical documentary All About Eva, showcased at the 2007 ZagrebDox. In recent years, he has been making mostly feature-length documentaries (Life in fresh Air, Lucky Child, Lora – Testimonies, Mimara Revisited, 20 Days in Tibet), mainly for Factum. His multiple-award winning 2011 autobiographical documentary War Reporter was screened at the 2011 ZagrebDox. Some of his most recent films are the experimental film The Red Star Cinema (2014) and documentary Mrzim sretne ljude (2014).

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Simpl

Croatia
2017, 19'

Directed by:
Silvestar Kolbas

Screenplay by:
Tomislav Pletenac, Silvestar Kolbas

Cinematography:
Silvestar Kolbas, Luka Matić, Mario Miličić

Edited by:
Damir Čučić

Producer:
Silvestar Kolbas

Produced by:
Silvestar Kolbas