Fluorescences

Synopsis

The authorist lenses of today’s respectable art photographer Ante Verzotti (1944), a prominent member of the Split Cine-club during the 1960s, inclined to proto-abstract patterns, reduction, movement and rhythmical orchestration of optical and acoustic phenomena. His ideals were painting with camera and „visual music“, and he reached them as early in his debut Twist-twist (1962), based on the choreography of sea-surface reflections, and later in Fluorescences. Though scratched, mowned and blurred by his action painting with camera, in later film Split sights are still visible between the „splices“, dancing to the distorted chords of Ray Charles song „(Hey) What’d I say”, and keeping up with times. Recognised as a filmmaker tending to reduction, Verzotti was a laureate of GEFF in 1967, when his whole generation reached its creative peak.