Srpski
Introduction and Set by Veljko Krulčić
1.4.2022. / 18h // Dom omladine Beograda
Participants
Veljko Krulčić, journalist, publisher and film publicist;
Dejan Dabić, Martovski Festival Art Director
The book is about the making of the last film by the Croatian Oscar winner and world-renowned filmmaker, Dušan Vukotić, Welcome to the Planet Earth, a short animated-fiction-puppet film. Pre-production began in the spring of 1990, and the film was completed in late 1993. It premiered in 1994 at the Animafest. After that screening, the film disappeared. It was not shown anywhere else, had no festival life, no one wrote about it… despite being a film where Vukotić, in his full creative force, managed to construct his fantastic universe. In this book, thirteen critics and aestheticians of animation write about this film’s qualities and possible shortcomings. The book also brings the complete shooting script and an introduction with a timeline of the origin of this testamentary film by Dušan Vukotić against the backdrop of war…
Veljko Krulčić (1962)
Author of more than two thousand bibliographic units on Croatian and Yugoslav film and cinematography. Founder and editor-in-chief of the monthly film magazine Hollywood (published from 1995 to 2006). Edited and/or compiled more than 20 books on film. He had the privilege and honour to cooperate occasionally, and even more to spend time with Dušan Vukotić. In 2013, together with Lila Vukotić, he established an association that studies Vukotić’s life and work. He published three books about Vukotić and organized author’s exhibitions in Pula, Banja Luka and Belgrade.
Film screening
Welcome to the Planet Earth
1993/1994. / 13’
Written (based on a story by Bojan Meserko), drawn, animated and directed by
Dušan Vukotić
Cast
Angel Palašev, Veronika Durbešić
Narrator
Krunoslav šarić
Executive production
Nikola Babić
Production company
Urania film, Zagreb
An animated SF parody about the so-called close encounter. A married couple, Matilda and Ignac, living in the countryside meet the aliens and their strange spacecraft…
Vukotić: Is our human nature at all capable and ready for that close encounter?!
Serbian premiere
