Five Excellent Exhibitions Prior and During the 69th Pula Film Festival

As part of the side programme of the 69th Pula Film Festival, as many as five exhibitions are to open in the running up to the Festival, as well as during the Festival. On Wednesday 13 July at 9 p.m., the exhibition And Now – Film and Music will open at the Rock Gallery Pula. The exhibition includes memorabilia from private archives that are a witness of the way in which the Festival impacted the daily life of the people of Pula over the last 50 years. On Thursday at 7 p.m. at HUiU and at 9 p.m. at SKUC, the work in graphic design and illustration by Nedeljko Dragić, prominent Croatian director and artist, will be exhibited. Nedeljko Dragić: Design and Illustration 1969-1991 is an exhibition of posters for theatre and various other cultural and tourist events and institutions, book covers, extremely successful and popular mascots, magazine graphic design, commercial films, etc. Before the Festival, on Friday 15 July at 8 p.m., the exhibition Nikola Predović: Horror at Makina: Poster Photography will open at Makina Gallery. The film photographer will show the action in front of the camera and behind the scenes with photographs, which require extraordinary harmony with the film crew even though they are an important link to the viewers.

During the Festival, from 16 to 24 July, the exhibition H-8… will be open at the foyer of Valli Cinema. In cooperation with the Croatian Film Archive of the Croatian State Archives, Pula Film Festival will see the unique exhibition by Daniel Rafaelić documenting all of the stages of what is certainly the best Croatian film, the masterpiece H-8 by Nikola Tanhofer.

The traditional exhibition Think Film: Cinemaniac XXI will open on 17 July at 8 p.m. at Pula City Gallery. This exhibition names, includes, and emphasises the work of female artists and the artistic work of women, and is formed as a temporary constellation of several recent works by female artists that create a dialogue of artistic phenomena within the group exhibition and open up the space of thinking and acting which deals with the position of female artists in the art system and artistic work, as well as their position in society. Along with the authors Sanja Iveković, Lynne Sachs, Martina Meštrović, and Tanja Vujasinović, the exhibition also has notable international female artists who are part of the anthology of avant-garde lm: Gunvor Nelson, Barbara Hammer, Carolee Schneeman. The exhibition is oragnised by Apoteka – Space for Contemporary Art, and co-organised by Waldinger Gallery and City Galleries Osijek.