Crvenoj, boji žarene zemlje l To the Earthen Red

DIRECTOR/PRODUCTOR Nika Pećarina

Nika Pećarina | Croatia | 2022 | 19’

An experimental, ontological reflection on the nature and narratives of extracting clay, tracing the relation between landscapes, objects and the senses.

This essay film is an experimental, ontological reflection on the nature and narratives of clay extraction, tracing the relation between landscapes, objects and the senses. An epic poem meets pottery, thermography, and the fundamental transformation of matter.

 

NIKA PEĆARINA  (b. 1992) lives in Zagreb, where he works in the fields of audiovisual and performing arts, ceramics, poetry and gastronomy. His focus is primarily on aspects of sex, ‘thingness’, and the transformation of matter, or the relation between activity and the physical outcome. In his work, he shines the spotlight on the distinctiveness and effects of media, measure, form and the concepts of visibility, fragility, smoothness and smallness.