BIOGRAPHY

Bruno Pavić was born on March 30, 1988 in Zagreb, Croatia. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Split at the Film and Video Department, and afterwards took his master`s degree on the same Academy – at the Department of Film, Media Arts and Animation. He works in fiction and documentary films, as well as in video art. His short and feature films were screened at international film festivals, and the award-winning hybrid documentary “Nulti krajolik“ (Landscape Zero) was named best Croatian documentary film in 2021 by the film critics. With his experimental films and video installations he participates in domestic and international group exhibitions and video art festivals. He is engaged in curatorial work in the field of video art. He is the founder of the first Croatian video art festival – Split Videoart Festival.

CURRICULUM VITAE

Bruno Pavić
(Zagreb, Croatia, 30.03.1988.)

Education

2011 – 2013 postgraduate study at the Split Art Academy (UMAS), Film, Split, Croatia
2008 – 2011 graduate study at the Split Art Academy (UMAS), Film and Video, Split, Croatia

Solo exhibitions

2014  Identitet (eng. Identity), Labin Art kolonija, Labin, Croatia

Group exhibitions

2024  19. INTERBIFEP, Tuzla, BiH
2024  Ibrida Festival, Forli, Italy
2024  Timeline:BH#9 – International Festival of Video Art and Experimental Cinema, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
2024  OSTEN Biennial, Skopje, North Macedonia
2024  Re–Fest, CultureHub, online broadcast by La MaMa (New York) and the Seoul Institute of the Arts (Seoul)
2024  Pebbles Underground Film and Video Art Festival, Toronto, Canada
2024  Serata Cinema – Evening Window Screenings, Art Studio Finestreria, Milano, Italy
2024  Morelia International Video Art Festival, Morelia, Mexico
2024  “Opposite Flow”, IFOD (Izmir Photo & Cinema Assc.), Izmir, Turkey
2023  IX Festival Video nodoCCS, Caracas, Venezuela
2023  5th International Video Art Forum, Dammam, Saudi Arabia  (*1st Prize winner)
2023  “Autoriteti“, Croatian Association of fine Artists of Istria, Pula, Croatia
2023  TRYST — Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles, USA
2023  “Opposite Flow”, International Short Film, Video and Photography Symposium, Istanbul, Turkey
2023  Almaty Underground Screening Series, Almaty, Kazakhstan
2023  “Are you here with us?”, Dutch Media Week, Hilversum, Holland
2023  projektado collective – “Ageing from Existence“
2023  Façade Video Festival, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
2023  Pinus Sessions, São Paulo, Brazil
2023  Video Art Miden – Frontpage Project, Athens, Greece
2023  Video Art Miden – “True Lies“, Thessaloniki, Greece
2023  Museum of Wild and Newfangled Art Biennial, New York, USA
2022  The Sidewalk Video Gallery, Boston, USA
2022  “Behind the scenes of the empire“, Centrum Kultury Zamek, Poznan, Poland
2022  5th PASA Festival, Seoul, South Korea
2022  SPMAV International Videoart Festival, Pelotas, Brazil
2022  “When Language is Lost. Possibilities of Art in the Face of War”, Karlsruhe, Germany
2022  INTERBIFEP – 18th International Biennal Festival of Portrait, Tuzla, BiH
2022  SIMULTAN FESTIVAL XVII. — The Changing and The Indeterminate, Timișoara, Romania
2022  ACTIFIST SATURDAY @GOGBOT festival, Enschede, Holland
2022  GJON MILI International Video Art Festival, Tirana, Albania
2022  Video Art Apace Bekarei, Berlin, Germany
2022  #Post RE:SET@New Future, Vienna, Austria
2022  4th International Video Art Forum, Dammam, Saudi Arabia
2022  Dark Summer of 2022 (Peace Letters to Ukraine 9), Rhizome DC, Washington DC, USA
2022  Antiwarcoalition.art – International Coalition of Cultural Workers Against the War in Ukraine, Ambasada Kultury, Belarus
2022  Athens Open Art, Art Number 23, Athens, Greece
2022  Turmoil & Error (Peace Letters to Ukraine 7), Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles, USA
2022  Turmoil & Error (Peace Letters to Ukraine 8), VisArts Center Rockville, Rockville, USA
2022  ALC videoart festival, Alicante, Spain
2022  Peace Letter to Ukraine, The New Museum of Networked Art
2021  VII Festival Video nodoCCS 2021, Caracas, Venezuela
2021  Puntomov Fest, Festival de Videoarte de la Facultad de Artes, UAEMEX, Toluca, Mexico
2021  Boundary, Video Art Apace Bekarei, Berlin, Germany
2020  NewMediaFest2020 – 1st Corona Festival “Corona! Shut Down?”, Cologne, Germany
2020  RETURN – Video Art Exhibition, Dammam, Saudi Arabia
2020  C:\SALON_GALIC\IZLOZBA\VOL.2 \ Kriza nam je velika prilika…, Split, CRO
2016  CologneOFF 2016 USA, “In the Name of TRUTH: Time, Peace & Humanity“, Torrance 
Art Museum, Los Angeles, USA
2015  artvideoKOELN – audiovisual experiences 01, TENRI – German-Japanese Cultural
Centre Cologne, Germany    
2012  Svijet Charlesa Dickensa , Studentska galerija, Rijeka, Croatia
2011  Strah ili Lijenost , Studentska galerija, Rijeka, Croatia
2010  Stvaranje, Muzej Grada Splita, Split, Croatia
2009  Eksperimentalni utorak, Student works selection, Zagreb/Rijeka,  Croatia     

Film festivals

2024  XIV Encuentro Para Cinéfagos (Festival de CineArte en la Frontera), San Cristóbal, Venezuela
2024  International short Film Festival FROM – Returnees, Mali Iđoš, Serbia
2024  2114 Film fest, Novi Sad, Serbia
2024  Celluloidra Revolverrel – Hungarian Experimental Film Festival, Esztergom, Hungary
2024  Vagrant Film Festival, Minsk, Belarus
2024  #FilmsForFuture, Zenica, BiH
2023  KURZstummfilmfestival, Essen, Germany
2023  The Digital Gate international film festival, Annaba, Algeria
2023  Little Scuzzy Film Fest, Carbondale, USA
2023  Silver City International Film Festival, Cuttack, India
2023  Anti-War International Independent Film Festival, Jõhvi, Estonia
2023  Mister Vorky Film Festival, Ruma, Serbia (*Audience award for one-minute film)
2023  Kursaal Film Festival / Erronka Munduan , San Sebastián, Spain
2023  31st Croatian One Minute Film Festival, Požega, Croatia
2023  VI Festival Internacional de Cineminutos de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina (*Honorary mention)
2023  International Film Festival Transcending Borders, Paris, France
2023  6th International Folklore Film Festival, Kerala, India
2022  Alternative Film/Video, Belgrade, Serbia
2022  Festival Entretodos, São Paulo, Brazil
2022  Eco-film Festival Mljet, Mljet Island, Croatia
2022  Pan-Cinema Experimental – Curitiba Int`l Exp. Film Festival, Curitiba, Brazil
2022  Euganea Film Festival, Padova, Italy
2022  9th Enviromental film festival, Zagreb, Croatia
2022  Fribourg International Film Festival, Fribourg, Switzerland
2021  Cinema Vérité – Iran International Documentary Film Festival, Tehran, Iran
2021  Days Of Croatian Film, Zagreb, Croatia
2021  International Festival Signs of the Night, Bangkok, Thailand (*Special mention)
2021  Split Film Festival, Split, Croatia (*“Ivan Martinac“ prize)
2021  Astra Film Festival, Sibiu, Romania
2021  Liburnia Film Festival, Opatija, Croatia (*best cinematography and sound design, film “Landscape Zero“)
2021  Aegean Film Festival, Patmos, Greece
2021  Pula Film Festival, Pula, Croatia
2021  South East European Film Festival (SEEfest), Los Angeles, USA
2021  32nd Trieste Film Festival, Trieste, Italy
2020  25th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, Jihlava, Czech Republic
2020  9th Tuzla Film Festival, Tuzla, Bosnia
2020  25th Split Film Festival, Split, Croatia
2016  Ferfilm Festival, Ferizaj, Kosovo
2016  XIV Cine Pobre Film Festival, La Paz, Mexico
2016  34th International Film Festival of Uruguay, Montevideo, Uruguay
2015  International Film Festival Golden Anteaters, Lublin, Poland
2015  Panorama Internacional Coisa de Cinema, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
2015. Split film festival, Split, Croatia
2015  Opuzen film festival, Opuzen, Croatia
2015  62nd Pula film festival, Pula, Croatia
2014  Overlook 2014 – 5th Cinemavvenire film festival, Rome, Italy
2014  Mediterranean Film Festival, Split, Croatia
2010  Art attack, Zagreb, Croatia
2010  Filofest, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2010  DUKAFEST, Banja Luka, Serbia
2010  42. Revija hrvatskog filmskog i videostvaralaštva , Samobor, Croatia
2009  41. Revija hrvatskog filmskog i videostvaralaštva, Split, Croatia
2007  12. Revija hrvatskog filmskog i video stvaralaštva mladeži, Karlovac, Croatia
2007  Westport Youth Film Festival, Westport, USA      

Awards

2023  1st Prize winner, 5th International Video Art Forum, Dammam, Saudi Arabia
2023  Audience award, Mister Vorky Film Festival, Ruma, Serbia
2023  Honorary mention, Festival Internacional de Cineminutos de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina
2022  Top of the Docs Award for the Best Croatian Documentary Film
2022  Dokumetar Award for the Best Croatian Documentary Film
2021  Ivan Martinac Award for creative and inovative use of film language, Split Film Festival, Split, Croatia
2021  Special mention, International Festival Signs of the Night, Bangkok, Thailand
2012  First prize for the video intallation Watching within the group exhibition Svijet Charlesa Dickensa

Artworks

Film works (selection)

2022  Flakes of snow, 14′, documentary
2020  Lanscape Zero, 70′, documentary
2020  Split Screens, 35′, dokumentary
2014  Vlog,  70′ / 60′, fiction
2012  The father, 22′, fiction

Video works (selection)

2024  Fire!, 2’04”, experimental
2023  On the screen, 3’43”, experimental
2022  A disturbing portrait of a cup, 3’59”, experimental
2022  The Message, 1’3”, experimental
2020  Numbers, 3’57”, experimental
2012  Watching, 5′, video installation
2012  35 faces of homeless, 4′, experimental
2009  In my grave, 2′, experimental

Commercial  works

2022  058 & Dupli – Da mogu hodat po moru, script / director / camera / editor
2020  058 – Role (music video), script / director / camera / editor
2016  058 – Nova priča (music video), script / director / editor
2016  058 – Ljeto (music video), script / director / editor
2016  058 – Vrijeme (music video), script / director / editor
2015  Wines of Dalmatia (promo), director
2014  Visual effects for theatre  performance Martyrdom of Saint Domnius  (dir.: Rade Perkovic)
2014  Official trailer of Split film festival

Workshops

2020    Docu Talents From The East @Sarajevo FF, Sarajevo, Bosnia
2016/2017  Ex Oriente Film, Split / Jihlava / Prague, Croatia / Czech Republic
2014.  Balkan film connection, Beograd, Serbia
2011   Mediterranean Film Festival, Filminkubator, Split, Croatia
2008   Zagreb Jewish film festival, Documentary film workshop, Zagreb, Croatia
2007   9. Škola medijske kulture dr. Ante Peterlić, Feature film workshop
2006  Kinoklub Zagreb, Scriptwriting, directing, camera and editing workshop

Residencies

2015.  45.FAMA, The international artistic campus, Swinoujscie, Poland

Curator/Jury member

2022   Split Videoart Festival – Antiwar Edition, Split, Croatia, director and curator
2022   Split Film Festival, Split, Croatia, Jury member – Competiton features
2021  International Contemporary and Video ArtFestival Waterpieces, Riga, Latvia, 1st Split Videoart Festival selection, curator
2021  OVER THE REAL – Festival Internazionale di Videoarte, Lucca,Italy, 2nd Split Videoart Festival selection, curator
2021.  2nd Split Videoart Festival, Split, Croatia, director and curator
2020.  1st Split Videoart Festival, Split, Croatia, founder/director and curator

Features/Essays/Publications

2022  Stvaranje hibridnog filma – kako je nastao Nulti krajolik, Hrvatski filmski ljetopis – 109 / 2022.
2014  Kako je nastao Vlog, Zapis, Br. 78, HFS

Teaching

2022   Creative video workshop, workshop leader for elementary school students, Split, Croatia (University of Split)
2014.  Škola o medijima 2014: „Mladi u javnom prostoru medija“, predavač na temu „Fotografija“, Split, Croatia (eng. School about media, teacher – photography workshop)

Memberships

Croatian association of visual artists (HULU-Split)
Croatian Film Directors’ Guild (DHFR)