A giant and a fairy walk into a surrealist fever dream — and it's gorgeously unhinged.
It is a romantic story about giant Regoch and fairy Kosjenka on their surreal adventures through unknown world. This short experimental / animated film is based on a story written in 1916 by Ivana Brlic Mazuranic - the Slavic Tolkien. This film is one of the 8 fairytales from the collection of internationally recognized interactive book project "Croatian Tales of Long Ago" - www.bulaja.com/fairytales/ - FlashForward FF 2002 winner in Story category
Production
Flash-era interactive book origins give it glitchy soul
Writing
1916 source material from Croatia's Tolkien
Director
Helena Bulaja
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Helena Bulaja spent years adapting all eight tales from Brlić-Mažuranić's collection as both interactive web projects and short films — this was the ambitious middle ground between Flash animation and cinematic poetry.
Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić was the first Croat nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature; her 1916 stories synthesized Slavic folklore with modernist unease, making her 'Tolkien' comparison reductive but not wrong.
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