LANDSCAPE ZERO
Bruno Pavić
KAZIMIR (Croatia)
An unusual coexistance between people and industry in a small coastal area.
A small coastal area has been destroyed by the presence of industrial facilities. The film follows the lives of people who are either fighting for their survival among the dangerous facilities or coexisting with them in harmony. Everyday scenes intertwine with different art performances, depicting the adjustment of people and animals to the degraded environment.
Bruno Pavić / IMDb
BRUNO PAVIĆ was born on March 30, 1988 in Zagreb, Croatia. Graduated from the Film and Video department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Split and afterwards took his master`degree at the same Academy - Department of Film, Media Art and Animation. Together with fiction and documentary films he also deals with video arts. His work has been shown at international film festivals and exhibitions.
Director’s statement
The title of the film is a reference to ground zero, denoting the location of a bomb explosion or the starting point of an epidemic or disaster. It also hints at zero category monuments, denoting cultural heritage sites of the highest order, thus alluding to the notion that the natural landscape should be protected in the same way. However, the meaning of the title goes beyond ecology; it could also serve to interpret the anthropological context of the relationship between human beings, nature and culture, industry and activist ecology . All of these themes intertwine throughout the film. I wanted to avoid the use of interviews and a narrator as the classical elements of documentary filmmaking. LANDSCAPE ZERO offers no factual information and the viewers can only observe and experience a small world in which people live in a strange symbiosis with industry. Some of the characters in the film are activists, but their activism stems from the need to survive in their environment.
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Total Budget: 70.000,00 EUR
Financing in place: 70.000,00 EUR
Sales Agent: none
Territories available: World
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Production Company profile
The Association for the Promotion of Culture, Art and Audiovisual Production is a non-profit cultural institution based in Split, Croatia. Involved in art events, performance, activism, theory and cinema, it is looking to evolve new technologies in order to investigate and discuss the structures of contemporary society. KAZIMIR concentrates on productions which explores social, political, technological, aesthetic and ethical concerns.