Directing

Damir Čučić

Known for

Directing

Credits

26 titles

Known for

The Torchbearer poster
NR

The film is based on an optical experiment with point light sources and appropriate filters. During the experiment, light passes through the obstacle and the obstacle is the human hand. The movements of the hands and fingers in front of the lens create interesting chromatic shapes.

The Torchbearer

2009

Summerhouse poster
6.3

Vojin, a blind author of radio docudramas, invites protagonists of his shows to meet him at an isolated hotel in the off-season. He records conversations with them where he captures, with architectural precision, the ruins of their traumatic childhoods.

Summerhouse

2018

Sky Spirits poster
NR

The basis of the experimental film Sky Spirits are real-life shots of fireworks. The authors of the film have collected these shots from the year 2001. to 2008. The experiment explores the ultimate limits of fireworks as sources of light, showing this through real-life dynamic light patters which are led through video processors, resulting in chromatically rich animated samples. The material is "laboratory" processed and then formed into a film unit, while respecting the dramaturgy of fireworks. The original sound was used, which was, of course, subsequently processed, too. The whole work process is a kind of "homage to the tape" because the entire work is completely recorded and realised on digital video tapes, without using any kind of computer program.

Sky Spirits

2010

City Killer poster
NR

Gripping and alarming film, based on amateur footage of Vukovar. In an apocalyptic urban landscape, a sniper looks for prey.

City Killer

2007

Mitch: The Diary of the Schizophrenic Patient poster
NR

Mitch is an artist, Mitch is schizophrenic. That’s what he claims, facing the camera. And Mitch is his self-portrait, showing a man of 40 who uses the camera and film as a form of therapy. So (a decisive gesture here) this is about reversing perspectives, in order to follow in his footsteps.

Mitch: The Diary of the Schizophrenic Patient

2014

Cities I Haven't Been to poster
NR

Cities I Haven’t Been To is an abstract travelogue that traces the skylines of unknown metropolises, taking the viewer on a virtual journey from Dubai to Dhaka and beyond. Unlike tourist postcards, these mental images stem from the filmmaker’s own memories and prejudices, coming to life in dreamlike flashes of abstract figures.

Cities I Haven't Been to

2019

Film credits

Behind the camera

The Torchbearer poster
NR

The film is based on an optical experiment with point light sources and appropriate filters. During the experiment, light passes through the obstacle and the obstacle is the human hand. The movements of the hands and fingers in front of the lens create interesting chromatic shapes.

The Torchbearer

2009

The Torchbearer poster
NR

The film is based on an optical experiment with point light sources and appropriate filters. During the experiment, light passes through the obstacle and the obstacle is the human hand. The movements of the hands and fingers in front of the lens create interesting chromatic shapes.

The Torchbearer

2009

Summerhouse poster
6.3

Vojin, a blind author of radio docudramas, invites protagonists of his shows to meet him at an isolated hotel in the off-season. He records conversations with them where he captures, with architectural precision, the ruins of their traumatic childhoods.

Summerhouse

2018

Summerhouse poster
6.3

Vojin, a blind author of radio docudramas, invites protagonists of his shows to meet him at an isolated hotel in the off-season. He records conversations with them where he captures, with architectural precision, the ruins of their traumatic childhoods.

Summerhouse

2018

Sky Spirits poster
NR

The basis of the experimental film Sky Spirits are real-life shots of fireworks. The authors of the film have collected these shots from the year 2001. to 2008. The experiment explores the ultimate limits of fireworks as sources of light, showing this through real-life dynamic light patters which are led through video processors, resulting in chromatically rich animated samples. The material is "laboratory" processed and then formed into a film unit, while respecting the dramaturgy of fireworks. The original sound was used, which was, of course, subsequently processed, too. The whole work process is a kind of "homage to the tape" because the entire work is completely recorded and realised on digital video tapes, without using any kind of computer program.

Sky Spirits

2010

Sky Spirits poster
NR

The basis of the experimental film Sky Spirits are real-life shots of fireworks. The authors of the film have collected these shots from the year 2001. to 2008. The experiment explores the ultimate limits of fireworks as sources of light, showing this through real-life dynamic light patters which are led through video processors, resulting in chromatically rich animated samples. The material is "laboratory" processed and then formed into a film unit, while respecting the dramaturgy of fireworks. The original sound was used, which was, of course, subsequently processed, too. The whole work process is a kind of "homage to the tape" because the entire work is completely recorded and realised on digital video tapes, without using any kind of computer program.

Sky Spirits

2010

City Killer poster
NR

Gripping and alarming film, based on amateur footage of Vukovar. In an apocalyptic urban landscape, a sniper looks for prey.

City Killer

2007

City Killer poster
NR

Gripping and alarming film, based on amateur footage of Vukovar. In an apocalyptic urban landscape, a sniper looks for prey.

City Killer

2007

Mitch: The Diary of the Schizophrenic Patient poster
NR

Mitch is an artist, Mitch is schizophrenic. That’s what he claims, facing the camera. And Mitch is his self-portrait, showing a man of 40 who uses the camera and film as a form of therapy. So (a decisive gesture here) this is about reversing perspectives, in order to follow in his footsteps.

Mitch: The Diary of the Schizophrenic Patient

2014

Mitch: The Diary of the Schizophrenic Patient poster
NR

Mitch is an artist, Mitch is schizophrenic. That’s what he claims, facing the camera. And Mitch is his self-portrait, showing a man of 40 who uses the camera and film as a form of therapy. So (a decisive gesture here) this is about reversing perspectives, in order to follow in his footsteps.

Mitch: The Diary of the Schizophrenic Patient

2014

Cities I Haven't Been to poster
NR

Cities I Haven’t Been To is an abstract travelogue that traces the skylines of unknown metropolises, taking the viewer on a virtual journey from Dubai to Dhaka and beyond. Unlike tourist postcards, these mental images stem from the filmmaker’s own memories and prejudices, coming to life in dreamlike flashes of abstract figures.

Cities I Haven't Been to

2019

Cities I Haven't Been to poster
NR

Cities I Haven’t Been To is an abstract travelogue that traces the skylines of unknown metropolises, taking the viewer on a virtual journey from Dubai to Dhaka and beyond. Unlike tourist postcards, these mental images stem from the filmmaker’s own memories and prejudices, coming to life in dreamlike flashes of abstract figures.

Cities I Haven't Been to

2019

The Spirits Diary poster
NR

Mario Haber was a sound engineer and a dedicated brandy maker. For over a decade, he had been recording colorful conversations and sounds in his house and around the alcohol fermenter. The Spirits Diary is a visual reconstruction of his audio recordings.

The Spirits Diary

2015

The Spirits Diary poster
NR

Mario Haber was a sound engineer and a dedicated brandy maker. For over a decade, he had been recording colorful conversations and sounds in his house and around the alcohol fermenter. The Spirits Diary is a visual reconstruction of his audio recordings.

The Spirits Diary

2015

The Rain Will Weep poster
NR

As a coping mechanism during the grim lockdowns during the global pandemic, Croatian filmmaker Damir Čučić started a project of exchanging video clips with a group of friends through social media. Superbly edited, The Rain Will Weep is created from the archive of more than 3,500 of those videos, portraying the world in a state of chaos that is sometimes violent, often very funny, but mostly absurd.

The Rain Will Weep

2025

The Rain Will Weep poster
NR

As a coping mechanism during the grim lockdowns during the global pandemic, Croatian filmmaker Damir Čučić started a project of exchanging video clips with a group of friends through social media. Superbly edited, The Rain Will Weep is created from the archive of more than 3,500 of those videos, portraying the world in a state of chaos that is sometimes violent, often very funny, but mostly absurd.

The Rain Will Weep

2025

Slowly Nowhere poster
6.0

Oleg is a film student who leads a spartan life surrounded by analogue technology. A librarian during daytime, Marta is an avant-garde novelist who works with alternate subjectivity. Narrated from each of their perspectives, Čučić’s film recounts a romance that never ceases to take new shape.

Slowly Nowhere

2023

Slowly Nowhere poster
6.0

Oleg is a film student who leads a spartan life surrounded by analogue technology. A librarian during daytime, Marta is an avant-garde novelist who works with alternate subjectivity. Narrated from each of their perspectives, Čučić’s film recounts a romance that never ceases to take new shape.

Slowly Nowhere

2023

Slowly Nowhere poster
6.0

Oleg is a film student who leads a spartan life surrounded by analogue technology. A librarian during daytime, Marta is an avant-garde novelist who works with alternate subjectivity. Narrated from each of their perspectives, Čučić’s film recounts a romance that never ceases to take new shape.

Slowly Nowhere

2023

No artwork available
NR

Eastern Croatian front, 1992. Artist and documentary filmmaker Ivan Faktor finds a job as a freelance journalist and war photographer, documenting the defence of Osijek, Croatia's third largest city. However, as time passes by, the recently inedpendant country's budget becomes scarce and the supplies of all kinds begin to dwindle. Faktor only sees one solution to this; an appeal for aid to the wider European masses, which he wants to achieve by securing a spot on the filming of the national news outlet in Copenhagen. Armed with nothing but his camera and accompanied by two soldiers, a driver and a university student, they head out in their small van into the unknown.

Alone At the Edge Of the Universe

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No artwork available
NR

Eastern Croatian front, 1992. Artist and documentary filmmaker Ivan Faktor finds a job as a freelance journalist and war photographer, documenting the defence of Osijek, Croatia's third largest city. However, as time passes by, the recently inedpendant country's budget becomes scarce and the supplies of all kinds begin to dwindle. Faktor only sees one solution to this; an appeal for aid to the wider European masses, which he wants to achieve by securing a spot on the filming of the national news outlet in Copenhagen. Armed with nothing but his camera and accompanied by two soldiers, a driver and a university student, they head out in their small van into the unknown.

Alone At the Edge Of the Universe

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A Letter to My Father poster
5.8

Father and son review the problems in their communication that have been accumulating in years. The son cannot get rid of fears that his life is being a true copy of his father's projections of his future, so he shoots a video letter with his amateur camera in which he tries to make his father look bad and present the evidences that would indicate how he became a much better person than him.

A Letter to My Father

2012

A Letter to My Father poster
5.8

Father and son review the problems in their communication that have been accumulating in years. The son cannot get rid of fears that his life is being a true copy of his father's projections of his future, so he shoots a video letter with his amateur camera in which he tries to make his father look bad and present the evidences that would indicate how he became a much better person than him.

A Letter to My Father

2012

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Jabberwocky

2026

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Jabberwocky

2026