experimental film
Duration: 22’42”
Director: Toni Meštrović
Production: Kreativni sindikat, 2024
Silence is the period between two compositions in the space of shipbuilding heritage with an uncertain future.
Due to the long-standing process of restructuring and privatization, political interventions and the governing structures’ corrupting malfeasances, the workers of the 3. maj (3rd of May) shipyard stayed at home without pay for a full year, and the production facility went silent. That moment of silence in a facility that is usually filled with sound is the starting point for the portrayal of a specific space and time. Revealing the beauty of the spatial and auditory narratives of an industrial space, in the absence of workers and work processes, contextualizes the frightening socio-economic consequences of the ‘silence’ and ’emptiness’ phenomena. After months-long negotiations in the fall of 2019, production continues with an uncertain future.
written and directed by: Toni Meštrović
director of photography: Toni Meštrović
editing and colour grading: Iva Kraljević
director of photography: Toni Meštrović
sound recording: Toni Meštrović
sound design: Zoran Medved Medo, Toni Meštrović
sound mix: Zoran Medved Medo – Studio Surogat
graphic design: Ana Labudović
music: J. S. Bach: Chromatic Fantasia BWV 930 by Kevin MacLeod
producers: Igor Grubić, Toni Meštrović
Festivals:
- Exground FilmFest 37, Wiesbaden Germany, 2024
