Synopsis

Taking Samuel Delany’s SciFi novel Stars In My Pocket Like Grains of Sandas a point of departure, this experimental mid-length is at once a dance, fantasy, and a queer road film. Its protagonists, animated by the weird landscape of the Dalmatinska zagora and enraptured by the sound of the conch shell, partake in the melding tradition of Dragon Hunting. An exploration in media translation, mimicry, and the sensuous, Dragon Huntis a result of collaborative processes between fellow artist friends and different machine learning algorithms.

Marko Gutić Mižimakov

Marko Gutić Mižimakov is a visual, performance and text-based artist living between Brussels and Zagreb. He is interested in shaping sensory materials through intimate, collaborative and social processes. In his work bodies as well as digital and palpable objects, are animated, choreographed and sung into non-orientable forms via different media and processes of translation. Often borrowing from queer science fiction he sees his work as a speculative technology of mutual transformation. He has an MA in Animated Film and New Media from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. From May 2022 until September 2023 he was an artistic researcher at a.pass, Brussels and is currently an adjunct faculty at Paris College of Art.