14.12 @ 16:00

Mario Kovač (HR)
Film with Disability, 2007
Workshop

A Film with Disability is envisioned as an artistic and social experiment, a project bringing together people with different handicaps in a workshop endeavor in film making. Our intent is to organize film production in ways in which each production unit is led by people whose disability customarily prevents them from engaging in that particular aspect of production. Specifically, this means that the cameramen are visually impaired, the sound recording and production is done by hearing-impaired members of the team, the narration spoken by a deaf-mute person, 'action' scenes are performed by people with motor disabilities (users of wheelchairs and other assistive devices).

BIOGRAPHY

Mario Kovac (born 1975 in Zagreb) is a Croatian theater and movie director. In 1995, he formed Schmrtz Teatar, an independent theater group of young people interested in theater, modern primitivism, alternative lifestyles and subcultural activities as well as in recycling the old ideas about modernity and the political influence of the theater. In less than five years they have produced over 120 plays, performances, shows, concerts, happenings, installations or actions. Radical actions were among the most noticed of their activities, including stealing books from bookshops to protest against the 22% VAT levy, exorcist action against evil demons in the building of the Croatian National Theater, the Millennium Marijuana March.... In 2000 they drastically reduced their membership (down to nine people) and changed their name into Nova Grupa, but their ideology of civil politics and independent ‘do it yourself’ lifestyle stays the same.