Ivan Martinac

Documentary about the life and work of Ivan Martinac (1938-2005), avant-garde & experimentalist filmmaker from Split, Croatia.

The auteur's birthplace as seen through his camera.

The auteur's birthplace as seen through his camera.

An architect returns from Ampurias in Spain. There is a friend of his, an investigating officer waiting for him at the airport. He spends some days in Split and suddenly takes his own life. His friend finds a audio tape he left in his apartment. He listens to the architect's story and slowly he begins to think like a suicide...

An architect returns from Ampurias in Spain. There is a friend of his, an investigating officer waiting for him at the airport. He spends some days in Split and suddenly takes his own life. His friend finds a audio tape he left in his apartment. He listens to the architect's story and slowly he begins to think like a suicide...

"Exile" is a religious parable on death and dying, contrasting the burning of an old ship with images of a woman dying in a dark interior, and a suggestion of redemption in the images of city covered by snow.

Documentary on the construction of the Croatian A1 motorway

A film about the dominance of time and space over a human being. A poetic reflection on the transience of material life characterized by a Mediterranean ambience, contemplation, mosaic structure, and repetitive editing patterns.

A meditation on transience composed through juxtaposition of sun-bathed exteriors of Split and dark interiors, landscapes of the city and close-ups of human faces, movements and stillness, the material and the spiritual.

A meditation on transience composed through juxtaposition of sun-bathed exteriors of Split and dark interiors, landscapes of the city and close-ups of human faces, movements and stillness, the material and the spiritual.

A meditation on transience composed through juxtaposition of sun-bathed exteriors of Split and dark interiors, landscapes of the city and close-ups of human faces, movements and stillness, the material and the spiritual.

Creating mystical cinematic supernovas through elaborate cutting techniques.

The Focus is the film about easy death on the Mediterranean sun.

The Focus is the film about easy death on the Mediterranean sun.

An experiment with 'anti-language' in detail (in composition, in changing plans, in exposition, etc.). Proof that the general rhythm and those miraculous 'pixels' that are not seen in the projection really mean a lot, if not everything.

Experimental film by Ivan Martinac.

Break-up flick.

Eminently a montage film, Monologue on Split is Martinac’s cinematic manifest.

A short avantgarde film by Ivan Martinac.

A short avantgarde film by Ivan Martinac.

Short experimental 16mm film.

Short experimental 16mm film.