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  • Author : Renata Poljak
  • Duration : 17'
  • Original Title : Velika Ocekivanja
  • English Title : Great Expectations
  • Year : 2005

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Bio : Born 1974 in Split, Croatia, the former Yugoslavia. Lives and works in Paris, France, United States of America, Split and Zagreb, Croatia.
Description : Man and architecture speak the same language. Human and architectural violence are the result of the same virus: that of great expectations. The video traces the transformations of Croatian architecture during the past decade and the examples of architectural violence. At the same time, the film reconstructs the development and transformation of violence through three generations of the same patriarchal family line in traditional Dalmatian surroundings, filled with the iconography of the new Croatian transitional capitalism, wild urbanism but also post-war social traumas.

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