Moving Pictures: Encounters
April in Kinoklub Zagreb / apply until 27.3.2026. radionice@kkz.hr
We invite you to join us for the workshop Moving Pictures: Encounters, which will, over the course of 4 modules in April, undertake the study and understanding of migration from a personal perspective. Through projections and analyses of films (on Wednesday sessions), participants anticipate the practical part of the workshop where they will, with mentor support, create their own short films (on Saturday sessions). The goal of the workshop is to enable people who temporarily or permanently live in Zagreb to express their own experiences related to migration, using available technical means such as mobile phones, simple cameras, applications, and editing programs in collaboration with local authors of Kinoklub Zagreb.
Please note that we use “migration” in the broadest sense possible, whatever the distance or the length of stay. Participants are welcome even if they have no personal migration experiences but an interest in the topic. Participants are not required to attend all modules if they are not available. You can attend just one module (Wednesday and Saturday) and complete a short filmmaking exercise. Those who attend all sessions will work towards completing a short film.
Migration can create a meeting of cultures and of languages. It also brings about opportunities for new social relationships, for intimacies and all their complications, just as it also creates distances that reshape relations with distant loved ones. For this workshop, we will watch and discuss films that portray different cross-cultural encounters as spaces that afford new understandings and misunderstandings. We invite participants to use their films to reflect on their own relationships with new spaces or people, or the way that being in a new place creates a new relationship with places or loved ones that are now distant.
No prior filmmaking experience is required for the workshop. We kindly ask you to apply (name and contact details to radionice@kkz.hr) until March 27, 2026.
The workshop and screenings are free of charge, and filming and editing equipment will be provided by Kinoklub Zagreb. The workshop will be held in English.
The workshop leaders are anthropologist and filmmakers Meghanne Barker, Tibor Đurđev and Ivana Perčinlić.
Wednesday, April 1, 2026 / 18:00–20:00 / Screening and discussion: observational films
Wednesday, April 8, 2026 / 18:00–20:00 / Screening and discussion: video diaries
Saturday, April 11, 2026 / 10:00–14:00 / Practical workshop: filming and concept development
Wednesday, April 15, 2026 / 18:00–20:00 / Screening and discussion: archival films
Saturday, April 18, 2026 / 10:00–14:00 / Practical workshop: footage review
Wednesday, April 22, 2026 / 18:00–20:00 / Screening and discussion: hybrid films
Weekend, April 24–26, 2026 / Practical workshop: editing
Wednesday, April 29, 2026 / Screening of participants’ films
Mentors
Meghanne Barker is an anthropologist and professor at the Institute of Education, University College London. Her first book, Throw Your Voice (Cornell University Press, 2024), explores childhood culture and puppet theatre in contemporary Kazakhstan. She has published articles in academic journals such as Critical Inquiry, Anthropological Quarterly, and Russian Review. She is an editor of the journal Semiotic Review. Since 2018, she has been conducting research on film culture in the former Yugoslav region, particularly in Croatia, Serbia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. In collaboration with Kinoklub Zagreb, she organized the workshops Ethnographic Experiments and Moving Images I and II.
Tibor Đurđev is a comparatist, film critic, and filmmaker, in no particular order. He is a member of the Executive Board of Kinoklub Zagreb and of the council of the Croatian Society of Film Critics. He has moderated film programs Film Evenings at Močvara and Film Curriculum. He writes for Ljetopis, Kulturpunkt, Filmoskop, and Dokumentarni.net. At the association Djeca susreću umjetnost (Children Meet Art), he coordinates and moderates a program for primary schools. He completed a professional internship at the FILMFORM Institute in Stockholm and teaches as an external lecturer in the course Scandinavian Film at the Department of Scandinavian Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. He is the author of several short films, including Turčini, which received two special mentions at the 15th Kinoklub Zagreb Screening, and Žive slike, which won the Jelena Rajković Award at the 34th Croatian Film Days.
Ivana Perčinlić graduated in film editing from the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb. She has edited various television formats and series, TV spots, commercials, and other promotional projects. She particularly enjoys working on fiction, documentary, and experimental films, among which Krhko, Kućica, and Moj trener stand out; for the latter, she received the Best Editing Award at the Croatian Film Days. For many years, she worked as a film editing instructor at the Film School and the Small Film Form program at Kinoklub Zagreb. She is currently editing several short films. She is a member of the Croatian Association of Film Workers.