Vladislav Knežević

COLONELLO FUTURISTA

Croatia, 2019., 19′

The film follows the flight of a spy balloon over Austro-Hungarian fortresses of the City of Pula, shortly before Italy entred into World War I in 1915. In this secret mission, an aviation officer is facing an unexpected experience triggered by a shot. We are witnessing a significant change of successful and disciplined pilot into a person focused on the creative use of free skies. Up in the air, there is a dream and down on Earth there are military formations. The officer, in his visions, is disassembling structures of fortresses and falls into state of freedom – of his own consciousness. Fantastic and creepy scene, intoxicating at the same time in the impressive power of destruction, it frees him from his mental discipline. Aeropitture actions are the realization of his repressed energies. The film is a hybrid of different technical procedures and genre definitions through which the potentials of media are explored. The hybrid film form was realized through a narrative line, using various animation techniques, documentary atmospheric references to the early avant-garde era.

Vladislav Knežević

Between 1989 and 1993 He studied at the Academy of Dramatic Art (film / TV dept.) in Zagreb and one semester at the De Vrije Academie (audiovisual dept.) in Den Haag Primarily engaged in audiovisual research and creating works using recorded video material, digital photography, micro-animation, stereoscopic 3D technique and generic electronic sound in an attempt to create a new experience of watching the movie media. In the focus of interest are concepts related to the marginal areas of real categories, the novelty images, digital aesthetics, utilitarian / fantastic constructs and the consequences of technological and scientific research on human experience