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Od zrna do slike

From Grain to Painting

Croatia
Director: Branko ISTVANCIC
75 min. 2012,
with dialogue, Croatian, Serbian, Italian, English subtitled
Producer: HRT
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Screenplay: Branko Istvancic
Cinematographer: Branko Cahun
Music: Pere Istvancic
Editor: Branko Istvancic

The film focuses on straw-girls, Croatian female folk artists (Bunjevci) from Vojvodina (Serbia), who are something like forgotten miracle. They found their medium of choice in ecological material of straw, using it to create beautiful paintings, sculptures and applied art objects, as poetic description of their hard and lonely life in immense Panonian golden plain. At the 1976 international exhibition of naive art in Moscow Ana Milodanovic won the gold medal with her work with straw weaving. Also, Kata Rogic had exceptional honour to present her work to Pope Paul the 6th in Vatican in 1964.

From Grain to Painting explores the culture and artistic expression of the Croatian minority in Serbia. The film focuses on "straw-girls", who found their medium of choice in ecological material of straw, using it to create paintings, sculptures and applied art objects. The film depicts the connection between their everyday lives and artistic expression, their specific social and national position. Main subject matter deals with environmental, minority issues, human rights, social justice and has international potential. The film protagonists are famous straw-girls Ana Milodanovic and Jozefa Skenderovic, art historian Bela Duranci, priest Andrija Kopilovic and writer Naco Zelic. Through a series of interviews and authentic footage, the film promotes a renaissance of this craft which slowly, but definitely vanishes. One of the characters in Istvancic's film is Ivo Skrabalo, the recently deceased Croatian film critic, historian and director, who made a film on this subject in 1971, "Slamarke divojke" (Strawgirls), one of the best Croatian documentaries of all times.

Filmmaker Branko Istvancic, the director of live-action (The Ghost in the Swamp, 2006) and award-winning documentary films (The Cormorant Scarecrow, 1998 and Wellman, 2003), born in Subotica and his family is from Tavankut, where a large part of the film takes place, devoted a lot of attention to the poetic atmosphere and visuals. A special accent was placed on the frame composition, its richness in content and meaning, authenticity of colours and visuality, as well as on the 'girls' paintings'. The message is clear: life and art are not separated, they comprise one unique life.

Major screenings, presentations:
  • Zagrebdox 2012 (official selection)
  • Fingal film festival Dublin Ireland 2013 (official selection)
  • US Video and Documentary film festival Los Angeles USA 2013
  • International ethnographique film festival Zlatna Romania 2013
Prizes:
  • Audience Award in Croatia 2012
  • Grand Prix and Best Director in Croatia 2013
  • Gold Camera for Best Documentary Los Angeles USA 2013
  • Grand Prix International ethnographique film festival Zlatna Romania 2013
Branko ISTVANCIC

Branko Istvancic was born in 1967 in Subotica. He was graduated film and TV direction in 1999 at Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb. Making his first, documentary films on 8 mm camera at 15 with his first Hungarian film teacher Zoltan Siflis from Subotica, he has continuously been involved with documentary films and has received Croatian as well as international rewards for his work - The Grand Prix at Croatian Short and Documentary Film Festival, "Oktavijan" and "Zlatna Uljanica" Golden Oil-lamp award being among them. His student short fiction Saying Goodbye / Rastanak was included in the New Direction program of The First Film Foundation in London, a selection of six outstanding films by promising European directors. Deeply enrooted in the Croatian documentary tradition, he pays special attention to the humane, but also humoristic, treatment of his subjects. His successfully film, Wellman / Bunarman (2003), continues this tradition, and elevates the simple story about a well digger to a level of the universal metaphor, but without the pretentious nature of many Croatian documentaries. The critics consider his film The Cormorant Scarecrow / Plasitelj Kormorana (1998) to be one of the best Croatian documentaries of the nineties. His debut The Ghost in the Swamp was a domestic box-office hit and has been chosen to mark the comeback of feature-length films for children which have not been made by the Croatian film industry for the last twenty years. He is member of Croatian Film Director's Guild.

Filmography

SAYING GOODBYE / RASTANAK
ADU, Croatia, 1993, short fiction film, 8 min., 16 mm
First Film Foundation from London selected for their program New Directions 1993.

THE CORMORANT SCARECROW / PLA©ITELJ KORMORANA
HRT, Croatia, 1998, documentary, 30 min., 16 / 35 mm
Grand Prix Croatian Film Festival Zagreb 1998
Best Documentary in Croatia 1998
Oktavijan Award of Croatian Film Critic's Guild

WELLMAN / BUNARMAN
HRT, Croatia, 2003, documentary, 30 min., Digital BETA
Best Director Croatia 2003, Best Documentary in Croatia 2003
Best Director Buchurest Romania 2003, Best Documentary Siena Italy 2003
Silverdocs, USA, 2004 official selection
Sarajevo film festival 2004 official selection

THE GHOST IN THE SWAMP / DUH U MOČVARI
Interfilm, Croatia, 2006, full-length feature fiction film, 90 min., 35 mm
Croatian box-office hit in cinemas
Best Director Italy 2009

RECYCLING / RECIKLIRANJE
Propeler film, Croatia, 2010/2011, short fiction, 15 min., HD / 35 mm
(in omnibus full-length feature fiction film "Zagreb Stories")

ALBUM / ALBUM
Factum, Croatia, 2011, documentary, 52 min., Super 8 mm / DVCAM

FROM GRAIN TO PAINTING / OD ZRNA DO SLIKE
Croatia and Serbia, 2012, full length feature documentary, 75 min., HD / DCP

THE BRIDGE AT THE END OF THE WORLD / MOST NA KRAJU SVIJETA
Artizana film, Croatia, 2014, full-length feature fiction film, 100 min., DCP

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