The Same Sweat is Still Flowing Through the Same Pores

in production

experimental film: 25’ - 30’ recording technique: HD, 16mm film, hunting camera, water camera, mobile phone, scanning (photo documentation), animation

Production: Studio Pangolin

Supported by: HAVC (Croatian Audiovisual centre)

Written, directed, edited by: Neža Knez

Camera: Jason Mullhausen, Sanja Bistričić, Ivan Slipčević, Neža Knez

Sound: Tin Dožić

Editing assistant: Hrvoslava Brkušić

Digital and analog animation: Neža Knez

Cast: Hupa Brajdić, Cecilija Žibert, Mia Žibert, Živa Petrič, Jason Mullhausen

Aditional help: Maja Pahor, Vjerica Lukić, Vida Guzmić

The film is based on years of research of a specific area, a remote natural space to which I am connected through family history and memory. In it, "Her" memories intertwine with my own, through which I reflect on the history and identity of the landscape, as well as the relationships that occur in that space. These reflections led me to question how to unravel these relationships through voice, image, and sound.

By exploring physicality and temporality, I record various micro-relationships., such as those between the bark of a tree and the sun’s rays, plants and their frequencies, or film strips in contact with light and toxicity. I film the non-human world while simultaneously incorporating that world and its properties into the fabric of the film.

How to reach a moment that opens somewhere in between, just like the moment between creation, becoming, and disappearance.

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