“Urboglyphs-Urbotheque: ‘1000 Lumière Minutes for Orson Welles'”

You are warmly invited to the grand opening of the audiovisual installation created from “1000 Lumière Minutes for Orson Welles.” Below, we share more about the project and look forward to seeing you there! See you soon!

Time: June 17 at 5:00 PM, June 18 from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM
Place: Pogon – Centre for Independent Culture and Youth – Main Hall
What: Audiovisual installation based on “1000 Lumière Minutes for Orson Welles”
Concept: Boris Bakal
Technical design: Vedran Gligo
Production: Shadow Casters & Pogon – Centre for Independent Culture and Youth

Shadow Casters are opening an audiovisual installation created as part of the Urboglyphs-Urbotheque project. For this cycle, we invited local residents to participate by focusing on the neighborhood of Trnje. The task was to record a one-minute video capturing their personal Trnje – the way they see, hear, and feel it – and thus become part of the artistic project “1000 Lumière Minutes for Orson Welles.” On Tuesday and Wednesday, Trnje will shine through the eyes of its own residents!

TRNJE ON FILM: Did you know that the Trnje neighborhood is one of the most cinematic parts of Zagreb? Throughout the 20th century, many world-renowned directors, including Jackie Chan and Orson Welles, filmed scenes in Trnje. Thanks to its layered history, impressive urban planning, and examples of purpose-built neighborhoods from the 1960s, Trnje served as an ideal setting for depicting various urban scenes.

THE LUMIÈRE MINUTE: In 1895, the Lumière brothers presented the cinematograph in Paris – a revolutionary invention that enabled the filming and projection of the first moving images. Their camera operators traveled the world, capturing moments of everyday life. Due to technical limitations, these early films lasted about one minute and had a fixed perspective. Today, these are known as “Lumière minutes.”

The Urboglyphs-Urbotheque project is entering its final phase of this season with this audiovisual installation. After more than six months of research, workshops, and public lectures, we will now see Trnje through new eyes – through the lens of citizens who took just one minute to share their personal perspective on this cinematic neighborhood.

Participants include: Bojana Burnać, Nikica Gilić, Jadran Boban, Damir Radnić, Sandra Uskoković, Nikola Strašek, Sara Simić, Iva Rosandić, Leo Vukelić, Goran Trbuljak, Boris Cvjetanović, Stanko Juzbašić, Ivan Posavec, Saša Vojković, Hrvoje Podobnik Gero, Vedran Gligo, as well as many citizens, students, pupils, and teachers from Trnje.

The project was conceived and is coordinated by Boris Bakal, with Ivan Klisurić responsible for project design.

This project is supported by the City of Zagreb through the “Culture and Art in the Community” program and is implemented in partnership with the Zagreb City Libraries (DK “Marin Držić”, GK “Ivana Gorana Kovačića”, GK “Savica”), the Pogon – Centre for Independent Culture and Youth, the Croatian Film Archive (State Archives), the Public Open University Zagreb, the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, the Savica Local Committee, Zagreb Film, and Jadran Film.

Shadow Casters (Zagreb, Republic of Croatia) is an internationally awarded and acclaimed artistic and production platform for interdisciplinary collaboration and creation. The group seamlessly blends international cooperation, filmmaking, theatre performances, urban intermedia projects, activism, pedagogy, video art, and curatorial practices into a cohesive artistic expression.