Boris Poljak
HORROR VACUI
Croatia, 2023, 24 min.
The term “horror vacui” was coined by Aristotle, and it means “fear of empty space”. It 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 a warning of the growing hyper-militarisation of the world we live in, and the impact this has on the human psyche. Due to the space and time of the events taking place in film being blurred, everything can happen everywhere at any time in a globalised world.
Boris Poljak
(Split, 1959) is one of the most prominent Croatian experimental and documentary authors, acclaimed cinematographer and director of photography. Longtime member of the Split Film Club and one of the initiators of the Split Film Festival. Since 1989, working as a director of photography, he has made more than 50 short and feature films and has received eight national film awards for best camera. He directed the award-winning experimental films “Beyond” (2003) and “Sky Spirits” (2010), both co-directed with Damir Čučić, and three short documentary experimental films “Splitski akvarel” (2009), “They just come and go ” (2017) and “Autofocus” (2013). The latter won the award for the best short film at the international film festivals in Karlovy Vary, Visions du Reel and Nyon in Switzerland.
