HORROR VACUI

CROATIAN FILM DAYS

HORROR VACUI

DIRECTOR: Boris Poljak

Grand Prix for Best Film

COUNTRY: Croatia

YEAR/DURATION: 2023. • 24′

GENRE: documentary, experimental film

Info

SCREENPLAY: Boris Poljak
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Boris Poljak
EDITOR: Damir Čučić
SOUND: Ruzina Frankulin

Synopsis

The term “Horror Vacui”, fear of empty space, is used as a metaphor of the fear of the uncertain future that causes feelings of anxiety and loneliness. With its one take sequences and free-associative editing style this meditative film sends out warning of the growing hyper-militarisation of the world we live in, and what it causes to the human psyche. Due to the space and time of the events taking place in film being blurred, it can all happen everywhere at any time, in this globalised world.