The monologue about Pula

Wednesday, September 14 at 21:00

Art kino Croatia

Director: Elvis Lenić

Producer: Marko Zdravković-Kunac

Country of origin: Croatia, 2021.

Runtime: 8'

SUMMARY

"The monologue about Pula" is inspired by the cult experimental film "Monologue about Split", directed by Ivan Martinac. The film lasts the same as the ‘’Monologue about Split’’ for exactly 7 minutes and 21 seconds, the same music is used - Ravel's Bolero and the same ratio and length of individual sequences, but it is edited entirely from film material from the archives of the Pula Cinema Club Jelen. Similarly like the ‘’Monologue on Split’’ it examines the relationship between life and death, eternal and transient, but also touches on sociological, political, metafilm and other elements in the context of recent Pula history.

Director Biography

Elvis Lenić was born in Pula in 1971. He graduated in mechanical engineering from the Faculty of Engineering in Rijeka. He worked at the shipyard Uljanik, but now he teaches at the Engineering High School in Pula. He works as a film critic for daily newspeper Glas Istre and occasionally for Croatian Film Chronicles. His work was published in biweekly magazine Vijenac and the film magazine Hollywood. Lenić was a jury member of the 57th International Film Festival in Pula. He is a member of the Šikuti machine art collective. His filmography consists of “The Gourds/Cuki” (2001), “The Pig Slaughter/Prašćina” (2002.), “The Stable/ Teza” (2004.), “The Hunt/Lov” (2007.) and “Prologue“ (2014.).

ISTRA FILM presents HISTORY FILM FESTIVAL

Program manager and director TIHA MODRIĆ

Producers TIHA MODRIĆ & DEJAN BOJC

Video production ROBERT KALČIĆ & IGOR MODRIĆ

Designer ROBERT KRANČIĆ

Photography RINO GROPUZZO

Graphic & web design GRAFIK, Rijeka