Riblje oko / Fisheye
Joško Marušić
Croatia / 1980 / 9' 6''Screenings
Synopsis
In a small fishing village generations live in a monotonous rhythm. The life of people is only a bit above of the life of the landscape they live in. all they have and all that identifies them as people comes from the sea. But one night, the order of things is disturbed… The morning brings suspicion: was it all just fiction or a cautionary metaphor telling us that we can never step away from nature and should keep that in mind?
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).