Resident  |  July 2020, June - August 2019

Stefan Pavlović

Stefan Pavlović (NL/BiH, 1989)

Looking for Horses

documentary / essay film 

88 min

Driven by a method of filming through, and because of friendship, Stefan links up with Zdravko, a fisherman in a small Bosnian village. The film attempts to capture their bond and time together through an experimental methodology. Friendship functions as an instrument of filmmaking; a necessity that looks out into the world, in wonder, in aspiration – together as a unit wholly different from its separate parts . 

Zdravko and Stefan dont speak the same language. Stefan lost his mother tongue, Serbo-Croatian, at a young age, or had difficulty acquiring it in the first place (no one really knows), due to a stutter. Zdravko lost his hearing during the Yugoslav war of the nineties. By means of filming, and maybe because of filming, they find ways to communicate and be together.

http://www.stefanpavlovic.com

This project is financed by the Netherlands Film Academy, the Master’s Degree Programme in Film.