The End of Light

synopsis

On a most real stage of all, a director of this hybrid film lets an unreal story flow. While Croatian nationalists stage a protest in front of the Rijeka theatre against its art director Oliver Frljić (a well-known figure to Czechs, among others), on a nearby island of Goli otok, amateur actors rehearse a surrealistic performance. Dilapidated buildings of a former concentration camp, secretly erected by Tito’s régime to hold political prisoners, serve as props of a Lynch-like scene in which smeared-faced actors become objects in the waxworks of their own dreams. The world of imagination and the world of bleak reality start moving away from each other.

“Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know. Jeremiah 33:3” A. Suk

biography

Aleš Suk (1977) graduated from FAMU Film Academy in Prague where he later started teaching at the Department of Film Editing. He is also a lecturer at the Academy of Design Art in Rijeka where he lives. Founder and executive director of Udruga UKUS company. Author of the experimental fresco Where? (2010) inspired by the life and work of the Croatian decadent author of progressive poet and novelist, Janko Polić Kamov.

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