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BALKAN DOX
I Would Rather Be a Stone
Radije bih bila kamen
Director
Ana Hušman
Producer
Ana Hušman
Cinematographer
Ivan Slipčević
Editor
Iva Kraljević
Sound
Ivan Zelić
Website
Contact
Bonobostudio
Veliki dol 53
10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Vanja Andrijević
[email protected]
2024
Croatia
24 min
Color
Through the voice of Little Jela, the film tells the story of the events that marked a generation and shaped the future of the landscape of Lika, a neglected and sparsely populated region of Croatia. The living conditions impacted on the personal lives of the people who lived there, their solitude, relationships, opportunities, apprehensions and hopes. Little Jela embodies several members of my own family which is predominantly composed of women – mothers, grandmothers, sisters and aunts.
Directors' Biography
<p>Ana Husman’s practice disassembles the structures and textures of cinematic elements through film, installation, books, sound, image and text. Hušman experiments with the possibilities of animation, documentary and fictional cinematic methods, and the possibilities of recorded voice and its articulation. Her working process questions and plays with the positions of the amateur and the professional subject of performativity, the medium itself, and the structures that dictate and produce patterns of behaviour.</p>
