What’s your background?

I was born in Yugoslavia and grew up between Herzegovina and Croatia. I studied graphic design and painting in Zagreb, and experimental cinema in Berlin. I have also worked for many years in gaming, this experience has informed my artistic practice and approach to image-based cinema.

What influences you artistically?

I tend to think about technology as an extension of human relations, and then construct a virtual stage where different perspectives can meet. For me politics emerges from any decisions that people make which might affect everyone. In the end, I am focusing on pictures, which helps me to organize all elements in the same way you would construct a painting.

How do you start a new work?

I always start with some elements from my previous work, something that I have just touched or encountered in the process, and then I want to examine this more closely. In the process I make a lot of drawings and sketches, then it is a challenge to find a way image-based cinema can operate on the same level, so constructing a virtual environment is like preparing a painting frame. Usually I don’t work with a script or scenario, a narrative is something that comes in the final stage as a conclusion of the whole process.

What are you working on right now?

I’m working with the producers Otvoreni Likovni Pogon on a new film about swarm behavior and borders, supported by the Croatian Audiovisual Centre (HAVC). Growing up on the border between Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, where five different political systems emerged or collapsed over time, has been a deeply influential experience for this project.