Jabberwocky

Damir Čučić / Croatia / 2026 / International Premiere / 15 min.

synopsis

Extreme close-ups of vibrating matter rewrite portraits of the filmmaker’s children as traces of light. A method of abstract documentary brings the family into presence through faces that give way to movement and surface. In a composition drawn from a nonsense poem by Lewis Carroll, the intimately familiar rearranges itself into an apparition in which the father gradually recognises his own features.

“It’s exactly in this uncertainty of experiment that I found a deep passion for film art.” — Damir Čučić

Source: Cineuropa.

biography

Damir Čučić (1972) is a Slovenian director, screenwriter, editor and producer. He directs and edits radio plays, and exhibits videos and photograms. Since 1989, he has made over seventy films. These include experimental and documentary films such as Travelling on the Path of Fear (2006) and Mitch – Diary of a Schizophrenic Patient (2014). His feature film debut, A Letter to Dad (2012), attracted considerable attention. Ji.hlava IDFF has screened his film City Killer (2007).

film details

director:	Damir Čučić
cast:	Marta Čučić
producer:	Jelena Duh
script:	Damir Čučić, Boris Poljak
photography:	Boris Poljak
editing:	Damir Čučić
music:	Goran Štrbac
sound design:	Krešimir Šušljek