Miro Manojlovic

Miro Manojlović (Zagreb, 1985) works in music, film and theatre.
Since 2014 he has been working as an Art Associate at Academy of Dramatic Art and cooperates with numerous artists at home and abroad. His experimental films “Showgirls“ (2011) and “Klopka za mag.. i česte udaljenosti“ (2019) won Maksimilijan Paspa Awards. Most recent film, “Rule No. 5: Shadow Your Man Closely“ (2023) was shown at more than 30 international film festivals, and won several awards. He has created music for numerous films, theatre and dance performances, and actively works as an film author, editor and music composer. In his free time he is devoted to exploring merry mysteries of sound and vision.

Miro Manojlović’s artistic research is based on experimental animation as well as a series of photographs intended to serve as the visual source material for a film. The inspiration for this experiment arises from a fascination with Eadweard Muybridge and his works from 1884, which are considered precursors to film. In his photographs, Muybridge captured a wide range of situations using a multi-camera system, producing sequences of twelve images each that depict human or animal movement. His studies emerged from both an artistic and a scientific interest in documenting anatomy. The actions he chose ranged from acrobatic movements to everyday tasks such as carrying a bucket of water, climbing a staircase, or watering a plant.
During his residency at MQ, Miro Manojlović plans to work on a similar series of photographs—using a variety of exposure times, from very short to very long (up to two minutes, for example). The aim is to explore the cinematic and animatory possibilities that arise from working in complete darkness with small light sources. The idea is to isolate “small“ actions that form part of the complex web of human relationships, roles, and everyday responsibilities, and to place them in unfamiliar and partly phantasmagoric situations of light and space

During December and January, Manojlović’s “PACIFIC LINES“ is exhibited at MQ Schauräume.