A whisper I hear
Written and directed: Aleksa Bujišić
Cinematography: Aleksa Bujišić
Editing: Aleksa Bujišić
Sound: Andrej Pajković, Ana Grujić
Producers: Aleksa Bujišić, Milan Radulović
Production: FDU Cetinje
Slavka lives in a house beneath the hill. During winter, her mother Miluša stays with her. She takes care of her, cooks, dresses her, helps her. She deals with insomnia by keeping herself busy with housework and small daily tasks. She gives insomnia space to live. When she sits down, the silence bothers her. In the workshop where her husband used to work, besides the empty space and dust-covered machines, there are piles of coal and firewood. She goes down to collect them. Sometimes she starts the machine, just to hear the sound. She chops the wood into small pieces on it. At night, she lies down, but soon enough, another morning arrives, another day that never seems to end.
Aleksa Bujišić graduated from the Faculty of Design and Multimedia, Film and Media programme at the University of Donja Gorica. In 2022, as part of the Erasmus+ programme, he lived and studied in Athens, Greece, at the University of West Attica, Department of Photography and Audiovisual Arts. In 2023 he began his MA studies of Film and TV Directing at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts. Throughout his studies, he has completed five short films, some of which have been screened at regional and international festivals. He is an alumnus of the Reykjavik Talent Lab and Jugendfilmtage Talent Camp. Currently, he is based in Bratislava, completing the final semester of his MA studies at the Academy of Performing Arts.