Author's Night - Boris Poljak

The Split Watercolour

Boris Poljak
Screening time  
02.03. / Friday, 19:00 - 21:00 Theatre 2  
The swimmers and the sea, cars and ships, all flicker in the heat, like a moving watercolour.

In the city of Split, the beach at Žnjan was created by land filling the area with sand and gravel from the sea. Often serving as a parking space, it does not function as a real beach and it is perceived as a city beach for less well-off people. The film observes the people on the beach, seen through a strong telephoto lens in every-day situations typical for life on the beach. The swimmers and the sea, cars and ships, all flicker in the heat, like a moving watercolour. Their languid rhythm creates an image of their pure existence.

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Boris Poljak

Boris Poljak (Split, Croatia 1959.) is one of the most prominent Croatian experimental and documentary filmmakers, an acclaimed cinematographer and director of photography. A long-time member of Split Film Club and one of the initiators of Split Film Festival – an international festival of new film and video. Since 1989. he is a professional DoP filming more than 50 short and feature films, and eight national film awards for best camera. He directed award-winning experimental titles Beyond (2003) and Sky Spirits (2010), both co-directed by Damir Cucic, and three short documentary experimental films The Split Watercolour (2009), They Just Come and Go (2017) and Autofocus (2013). The latter being awarded as best short film at both  Karlovy Vary international film festival and Visions du Reel film festival in Nyon, Switzerland.

General sponsor

SPLITSKI AKVAREL

Croatia
2009, 15'

Directed by:
Boris Poljak

Cinematography:
Boris Poljak

Edited by:
Damir Čučić

Music:
Martin Semenčić

Producers:
Milva Čučić, Vera Robić-Škarica

Produced by:
Hrvatski filmski savez

Festivals & Awards:

Liburnia Film Festival 2009 – Grand Prix; 25 FPS 2009.