experimental-animated film
year: 2013
format: HD
duration: 23'
production: Bonobostudio
distribution: Bonobostudio
In a dead and void dystopian world, where permanent present reigns and absorbs like a black hole every past as well as every future, there is a place where no one exists anymore and everyone is just their own hallucination on the verge of disappearing.
scriptwriter and director: Dalibor Barić
music composer and sound designer: Tomislav Babić
cast: Ana Kolčeg, Dalibor Barić, Flavio Floričić
voice cast: Lada Bonacci, Marko Cindrić, Thomas Johnson
animation, compositing and editing: Dalibor Barić
director of photography: Daniel Bakotić
props and set construction: Ivana Bošnjak, Thomas Johnson
assistant director: Marko Tomašević
assistant cameraman: Ivan Karabelj
sound postproduction: Tomislav Babić
colour grading: Mario Kalogjera
producer: Vanja Andrijević
The Near Life Experience might seem to be an odd, extraordinary occurrence, but in fact it can happen to anyone. Why be the self-stigma of your fixed, unchanging identity, as if we were never to act, never to desire, never to experience anything new? Now we can give you the most precious gift of all: The Near Life Experience.
Dalibor Barić (1974) is a multimedia artist. He lives and works in Zagreb. He makes short animated and experimental films, music videos, festival trailers, installations, graphic novels, drawings and cut-outs. He is also a music composer and VJ performer.
Selected works
Astronaut of Featherweight (2017); Unknown Energies, Unidentified Emotions (2015); Amnesiac on the Beach (2013); The Spectres of Veronica (2011); New Hippie Future (2011); Pain So Light That Appears As Tickle (2010); The Mind from Nowhere (2010); The Horror of Dracula (2010); Ghost Porn in Ectoplasm! But How? (2010); Nymph Gloss Atari (2010)
Days of Croatian Film (15/4-20/4/2013)
Tabor Film Festival (13/6-16/6/2013)
Opuzen Film Festival (19/8-24/8/2013)
25FPS Festival (26/9-29/9/2013)
Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival (11/10-20/10/2013)
Festival of Serbian Fantastic Film (16/10-19/10/2013)
Festival of Different and Experimental Cinemas, Paris (16/10-20/10/2013)
Alternative Film Video (10/12-14/12/2013)
REGARD - Saguenay International Short Film Festival (12/3-16/3/2014)
Traverse Video (17/3-31/3/2014)
Landshut Short Film Festival (26/3-31/3/2014)
EcransMed Film Festival, Montreal (10/5-21/5/2014)
Experimental Film Festival Portland (28/5-1/6/2014)
Fantastic Zagreb (27/6-5/7/2014)
Fantasia International Film Festival, Montreal (17/7-5/8/2014)
L’Etrange Festival (5/9-15/9/2014)
Lucca Film Festival (28/9-3/10/2014)
StopTrik International Film Festival (3/10-5/10/2014)
Imagine Science Film Festival (17/10-24/10/2014)
Les Utopiales International Sci-Fi Festival (29/10-3/11/2014)
Ljubljana International Film Festival (12/11-23/11/2014)
FLEX - Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival (19/2-22/2/2015)
Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival (23/3-29/3/2015)