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Harvest Ethnofictional – a Video Letter to Descendants

Original title Žetva u Crkvarima – slikopismo potomcima

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For the inhabitants of Crkvari, a small village next to the town of Orahovica, in Northeastern Slavonija, it is ‘better to work for free than to sit for free’, since they have learned that way of life since early childhood, and their fields, yards and public space confirm that motto. One of the biggest agricultural jobs, in the period before the arrival of combines, was harvest – a job which included a large number of people. In the attempt to narrate and show to their descendants how they worked lived when they were young, the villagers of Crkvari have demonstrated for the cameras of Croatian Television the traditional harvest and the process of threshing. They have sown and grown a field of oats, and have borrowed the renovated threshing machine from the town of Našice, from Slavko Vukušić, an enthusiast in ‘agricultural antiques’.

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Author/s Ivo Kuzmanić

IVO KUZMANIĆ Born on 19th July of 1966 in Zagreb. – author and co-director (with Tihomir Beritic) of the feature film, Dimnjacarska simfonija (The Chimney-Sweeper’s Symphony) (1992), which was shown at the Croatian Film Festival (Dani Hrvatskog filma) and at the film festival in Imola, Italy. – directed Zemlja na dlanu (Earth in the Palm of the Hand), a television series about ecology for the Croatian state television company, HRT (29 half-hour shows) – co-author (with Darko Vernic Bundi), cammerman, and actor in a number of experimental films, including Put do sreće (The Road to Happiness) and Na dnu I, II (At the Bottom I, II) – co-directed (with Darko Vernic Bundi) Animavizija (“Animavision”), the first television show about animated film – director, chronicles of the World Festival of Animated Film, which takes place in Zagreb every two years – directed three music videos and a number of live music shows – director, chronicles of the annual International Folk Festival – directed a documentary film, Kirvaj u Kupini (The Patron Saint’s Day Festival in Kupina), about traditions in Slavonija – created the television series Tragom bastine (In Search of Heritage) (1998) – director and screenwriter, thirty-minute documentary films for the television series Tragom bastine (In Search of Heritage), with Tomislav Pletenac, ph.d. (narrator, screenwriter), Department of Ethnology And Cultural Anthropology, University of Zagreb. The most recent film in this series, Bederske price (Tales from Beder), was awarded a prize at the International Ethnological Film Festival in Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro 2003 – director & co-writer of Maskori z’ Turcisca (The Turcisce Carnival), 46-minute documentary, awarded with the Grand Prix of The International Ethnological Film Festival in Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro 2004; award of Slavonia Heart Festival, Djakovo, Croatia, 2010 – director of Prilepski meckari (The Bear Men From Prilep), 30-minute documentary, awarded at The International Ethnological Film Festival in Belgrade, Serbia 2006, as the best foreign film – director of Ki more bit zvoncar (Who Can Become a Bellman), 55- minute documentary, awarded with Mayor Prize at Etnofilm festival 2008, Čadca, Slovakia, and with the Best foreign film prize and the Best script special recognition at XVII International ethnological film festival 2008, Belgrade, Serbia – director of Ethnoforensics: In The Town of Long Village, awarded as the best foreign film at the FESTEF, Kucevo, Serbia, 2010 – director and scriptwriter of Earning Daily Bread, awarded in the TV category at the ETNOFILm festival, Rovinj, Croatia, 2011 – director and co-writer of When Dedi Shake It Up, awarded with 3rd prize at the Slavonia Heart Festival, Djakovo, Croatia, 2011 – director and co-writer of Ethnoforensics: Working The Wine, awarded with Special prize at the Slavonia Heart Festival, Djakovo, Croatia, 2012

Research Aleksej Pavlovsky, Ivo Kuzmanić
Photography Branko Cahun
Sound Antun Trnka
Editing Davorka Feller