Karpotrotter

Matjaž Ivanišin : 2013
Karpopotnik

A road film about the passage of time and about memory. In the 1970s, young Yugoslav filmmaker Karpo Godina travels with an 8mm camera in his hand across the flatlands of Vojvodina's interior and its sleepy rural areas. The multi-ethnic character of the region was translated into a wide variety of faces, languages and customs. Only fragments have remained from his trip. Forty years later, Slovenian director Matjaž Ivanišin pays tribute to the acclaimed director Godina by retracing his steps through small, remote villages, using the rare preserved fragments and talking to the villagers who still remember Godina's visit. The film is divided in five parts, each about the local character of various villages. Using a multi-layered approach in terms of time and space, it functions as a kind of painful lament over the rural culture of Yugoslavia. Matjaž Ivanišin's documentary had its international premiere at International Film Festival Rotterdam 2014, and won the award for Best Documentary at Zagreb Film Festival 2014.