14 Jun THE FILM FACTORY

THE FILM FACTORY

Croatia / 2022 / 15`

DIRECTED BY: Silvestar Kolbas
WRITTEN BY:  Silvestar Kolbas
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Silvestar Kolbas
SOUND: Luka Gamulin
EDITED BY: Slaven Zečević
MUSIC: Luka Gamulin
PRODUCERS: Silvestar Kolbas
PRODUCED BY: Silvestar Kolbas audiovizualna djelatnost

This essay’s film on photography shows the passing of time through the aging of the photographic material itself. B&W photographs of the closed Fotokemika factory, which produced photographic paper and films, are taken on photographic negatives that were once produced in that factory. All materials expired a long time ago, many of them showing visible signs of decay. At the same time, it is a story about the negative aspects of the transition to a capitalist system, a story of the collapse of industrialization and the loss of workers’ rights, and a testimony to socialist self-management.

Silvestar Kolbas (1956) is a Croatian cinematographer, photographer, and film director. He graduated in Film and TV Camera in 1982 at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb. Today he is a full professor at the same school. As a cinematographer, he has made several feature, short and TV films, series, and documentaries.