Synopsis

A series of animated sequences depicting architecture in interaction with humanoid puppet-robot figures embodying soldiers and civilians. And while soldiers move in strict formations, the civilians wake over an abyss or uncontrollably roll down the stairs of infinite architectural structures (references to Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin, the Tower of Babylon, Escher’s surreal spaces), sometimes colliding and falling into the abyss... The scenes are reduced to minimalism in 3D technique, alternating in different rhythms of sharp black and white contrast, accentuating the atmosphere of loneliness and the anxious premonition of fascist terror.

Slobodan Tomić

Solobodan Tomić (1960, Split) graduated from the Academy of Fine Art in Sarajevo in 1984, Department of Prints, under professor Dževad Hoza. Since 1988 he has collaborated at many group and solo exhibitions in Croatia and abroad, as well as at experimental and animated film festivals. He explores in the field of prints, animation and new media. A winner of several international awards for prints and short film. He is based in Split and works as a docent at the Arts Academy, teaching prints and 3D design.