the best documentary film<\/strong> of the festivals.<\/span><\/p>\nFollowing this screening, the premiere in Pula will take place on April 30 at the Valli cinema<\/strong>, followed by distribution to cinemas across Croatia. The film has already been invited to five more domestic and international festivals, and this is the only opportunity (for now) to see it in Zagreb.<\/span><\/p>\nFrom the media: <\/strong><\/p>\n“Bakal develops the film with the skyscraper as the main character, which proves to be part of a broader activist engagement and a renewal of awareness about infrastructure in the service of the community; in short, it affirms all those values that contemporary debates maliciously portray as relics of socialist heritage… ‘Viti\u0107 Dances’ is the best reminder of the corrupt environment and the community forcibly organized on the basis of the law of the strongest. Bakal, however, transforms concrete activism, in terms of relocating to the site and developing empowering practices among the participants, into a dynamic film full of twists, documenting a period spanning about fifteen years.” – <\/span>Iva Rosandi\u0107, “Viti\u0107 Dances \u2013 Dance Against the System,” Dokumentarni.net, April 7, 2023.<\/b><\/p>\n“The film’s theme is very important because it shows not only how artists, or individuals from culture, encourage and try to achieve the protection and restoration of valuable protected cultural monuments, i.e., individuals for the common good, for the community, but also how the system in the country, whose task that is, fails to do so. It thus becomes a metaphor for many such cases, but also reveals various interests and interpersonal relationships.” – Marijana Jakovljevi\u0107, Glas Koncila, “Documentary from Viti\u0107’s Skyscraper \u2013 Individual for the Community,” <\/span>May 27, 2023.<\/b><\/p>\n“Yet the film’s message is far from dark. Above all, it is an ode to active coexistence, solidarity, unity, and all the ideas that Bakal recognized in the lively fa\u00e7ade twenty years ago. And the documentary does not mark the end of the story \u2013 it merely completes one chapter, and Viti\u0107 will continue to dance.” – <\/span>Andrea Stani\u0107, “Social Choreography Behind the Lively Fa\u00e7ade,” Kulturpunkt, May 9, 2023.<\/b><\/p>\n“Filmed predominantly inside and around the building, often at residents’ gatherings, vividly edited \u2013 co-written (alongside Bakal) and edited by Martin Semen\u010di\u0107 \u2013 frequently accompanied by the fast-paced jazz score of Be-Bop Dizzy Gillespie All Stars, this dynamic film is content-rich, dedicated, enthusiastic, convincing, but without finger-pointing or blame, it portrays the agony of a prolonged, (overly) complicated, exhausting process that is prolonged due to incompetence, irresponsibility, sloppiness, vanity, malice… and also greed. Human nature? There are honest, diligent, and well-intentioned people, but too few to cope with simply much more numerous, and generally more stubborn and persistent wrongdoers, for whom it is actually easier because, isn’t it, it’s harder to build and strive than to destroy and obstruct.” – <\/span>Janko Heidl, “Easier to Destroy Than to Build,” Vijenac, June 29, 2023.<\/b><\/p>\n“Like the architect’s wife Nada, who danced through life with her husband, Bakal dances with Viti\u0107’s house, a paradigmatic example of Croatian modernism. His move to temporarily inhabit Viti\u0107’s building, in order to patiently build an atmosphere of community and restoration right where the house is literally falling apart, is almost unrealistically humanistic.” – <\/span>Marina Pavkovi\u0107, economist and doctor of architecture, Facebook after the \u0160ibenik premiere of the film, February 21, 2024.<\/b><\/p>\nDirector: Boris Bakal\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nScreenwriters: Boris Bakal, Martin Semen\u010di\u0107 (Co-writer)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nCinematographers: Adam Luka Turjak, Ante Cvitanovi\u0107, Bojana Burna\u0107, Bojan Haron Marki\u010devi\u0107, Boris Bakal, Damjan Nenadi\u0107, Danko Vu\u010dinovi\u0107, David Ogui\u0107, Davorin Fahn, Dubravka Kuroba\u0161a, Filip Tot, Ines Lambert, Jadran Boban, Jasenko Rasol, Katarina Pejovi\u0107, Lovro Cepelak, Mark Modri\u0107, Rino Barbir, Sandra Uskokovi\u0107, Plakor Kova\u010devi\u0107, Sr\u0111an Kova\u010devi\u0107, Veno Mu\u0161inovi\u0107, Vedran Senjanovi\u0107, Tamara Cesarac, Tomislav Sutlar, Toma\u0161 Kratochv\u00edl\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nEditor: Martin Semen\u010di\u0107 (Co-editor)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nComposer: Stanko Juzba\u0161i\u0107\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nProducers: Boris Bakal, Adrijana Prugove\u010dki, Tibor Keser, Ivan Kelava\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nProduction Company: Multimedia Arts Organization Shadow Casters\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nCoproducers: Croatian Radiotelevision, 15 umjetnost\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nDistribution: Radar d.o.o.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nSupport: Croatian Audiovisual Centre, City of Zagreb – Office for Culture, EU Media<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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