TRAGOVI
TRACES
Luka Klapan / Croatia (Hrvatska) / 2021 / 13 min / Colour
Italian premiere
The gestures of artisans contain ancient wisdom, customs and traditions that are lost over time and that testify to the deep bond with their land. In the mountains of Croatia, director Luka Klapan portrays, with simplicity, without words or musical notes, three men who, each in his own way, are connected to stone. The first extracts stone slabs with a hoe in a quarry, and then shapes them and gives them similar forms with a hammer. The second skilfully builds dry stone walls with stones in the same way they were built tens, or hundreds, of years before. The third is in his workshop, where he saws the stone and then bush-hammers it. This is craftsmanship that has come down to us and which will in turn be handed down to other men and other hands. A picture of silence and slowness that takes us with our thoughts to a distant time.
Luka Klapan
A painter and director, he presented his first experimental film, Dream (2008) at the XVIII Croatian Film Days. Since then he has made a number of shorts that have been screened at international and Croatian festivals. His most recents works are focused on the study and ethnography of a local community.
Credits
Screenplay Luka KlapanCinematography Luka KlapanSound Laura KlapanEditing Luka KlapanMain cast Omer Bačić, Ante Kamber, Ante ZrilićProducer Jedina solucijaProduction company The Only Solution Audiovisual Arts Organization
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