Potop
The Flood
Kristijan Krajnčan / Croatia (Hrvatska), Slovenia / 2019 / 16 min / Colour
After years of separation, a father and son reunite. They leave together for the family cabin in the mountains. It is a refuge of thin wood, with many cracks: the boy has taken care of it alone, during the absence of the parent. Kristijan Krajnčan captures his protagonists using narrow shots and playing with the angles: between the two protagonists there is a silent tension when the weather, apparently calm, suddenly worsens. A seemingly incessant rainfall forces the two men inside the hut, forced to share the intimacy of a narrow space, overwhelmed by the flood. By constructing the sound field through echoes and distortions, superimposed on the noises of the scene, the director constructs a supernatural space, evoked by the nursery rhyme that the father recites from the first scene. From a trap door in the floor, in the middle of the storm, comes a distant call, an echo of an underwater world.
Kristijan Krajnčan
Slovenian born Kristijan Krajnčan holds a master's degree in composition for cinema from the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. He has directed music videos and his short film, Potop, received the Best Screenplay Award at Rotterdam's Cinephilia Screenwriting Lab For Shorts and was selected for the Euro-Connection Pitch at the Clermont Ferrand Film Festival in 2018.
Credits
Subject Kristijan KrajnčanScreenplay Kristijan KrajnčanCinematography Lev Predan KowarskiSound Julij ZornikEditing Andrej NagodeMusic Kristijan KrajnčanMain cast Matej Puc, Žigan KrajnčanProduction company EnaBanda
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