Neboder / Skyscraper
Joško Marušić
Croatia / 1981 / 9' 54''Screenings
Synopsis
In a skyscraper without walls or ceilings, and with just a waste pipe and lift, people get on with their day-to-day living which through some 80 gags is taken to the limits of the absurd! We follow the destiny of some of the individual characters as well as of this whole strange settlement in its entirety.
Joško Marušić (1952) graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Zagreb. He has since been active in various media: cartoon, caricature, illustration, literature, film production and television. Illustration and animation, however, remain central to his work. Twice the art director of Zagreb Film, he was also the program director of the World Festival of Animated Films in Zagreb from 1992 till 1998, as well as the president of the Festival’s Council from 2000 till 2006. Since 1999, he has served as head of the Department of Animation at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, where he teaches three theoretical subjects, and also acts as tutor. His most important, award-winning films are: Inside and Out (1977), Perpetuo (1978), Fisheye (1980), Skyscraper (1981), Over There (1985), Home Is The Best (1988), Miss Link (1998).
Director
Joško Marušić
Production
Ustanova Zagreb film
categories
Comics and Animation 4 - Animated Films by Croatian Comic Book Artists