Five minutes to fall down a rabbit hole of pure cinematic madness.
An experimental short about the Slovenian filmmaker Ema Kugler. The film was made during the production of her feature film Man With Shadow.
Direction
Sašo Štih's playful peek behind avant-garde curtains.
Editing
Frenetic cuts mirroring Kugler's own surrealist style.
Director
Sašo Štih
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ema Kugler is Slovenia's most celebrated experimental filmmaker, known for grotesque puppetry and bodily horror aesthetics.
The 'shadow' in Man With Shadow refers to suppressed Yugoslav history—this short accidentally documents Kugler wrestling with that weight in real time.
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