Regional Competition

Horror Vacui

Boris Poljak
Screening time  
29.03. / Wednesday, 19:00 - 21:00 Theatre 2  
31.03. / Friday, 15:00 - 17:00 Theatre 5  
02.04. / Sunday, 14:00 - 16:00 Theatre 3  
02.04. / Sunday, 16:00 - 18:00 Theatre 1  

The term "Horror Vacui" was coined by Aristotle, and it means fear of empty space. It is used as a metaphor of the fear of the uncertain future that causes feelings of anxiety and loneliness. With its one take sequences and free-associative editing style this meditative film sends out warning of the growing hyper-militarization of the world we live in, and what it causes to the human psyche. Due to the space and time of the events taking place in film being blurred, it can all happen everywhere at any time, in this globalized world. The film is stylistically following Boris Poljak's previous award-winning films The Split Watercolour, Autofocus and They Just Come and Go, forming a film tetralogy.

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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.

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Horror Vacui

Croatia
2022, 24'

Directed by:
Boris Poljak

Screenplay by:
Boris Poljak

Cinematography:
Boris Poljak

Edited by:
Damir Čučić