Aleksandar Marks
Directing
Biography
Aleksandar Marks was born on 29 June 1922 in Cazma, Croatia, Yugoslavia [now Croatia]. He was a director, known for The Kind-Hearted Ant (1966), Mora (1976) and Ecce Homo (1972). He died on 7 September 2002 in Zagreb, Croatia.
Known For

Harassed by the day, he runs away in the evening from people and town. He crawls into his little room to sleep. The dream is bringing him the limitless and quiet spaces of solitude. At last, he is alone and free. But the solitude engenders the fear.
Alone
A scientist builds a robot, and sets it to cleaning up his lab while he sleeps. The robot rebels, and creates two small robots; they create various forms of mischief while he sleeps, including trapping him and the inventor for a while.
The Disobedient Robot

The inspector cautiously walks the city streets avoiding “dangers”. He comes home, washes his feet and reads newspapers. Suddenly he sees a fingerprint that makes a run for it. The inspector follows it…
The Inspector Is Back!

A man is standing in the scene when a fly arrives and begins to irritate him. He tries to swat the fly, but it keeps growing bigger to the point where it shatters the scene. Eventually, the man and the fly decide to negotiate.
The Fly

A richly illustrated cartoon film that enlarges on man's capacity to foul his own nest, and to ignore it. Made by a joint team of Canadian and Yugoslav animation artists, the film transmits its warning with unflagging humor, imagination, movement and design. In between animated sequences Dr. Fred H. Knelman, Professor of Science and Human Affairs at Concordia University in Montréal, comments on the import of what is shown and on what lies in store if more responsibility is not taken on a global scale to conserve what is left of our vital resources and usable environment.
Man: The Polluter

A phantasmagoric story about an undertaker and his wife who live alone because everyone avoids them. The undertaker cannot break human prejudices and superstitions, and in desperation he invites his former customers, the dead, to be his guests and to banish loneliness from him and his wife.
The Undertaker

A free association of Poe’s theme. In Poe’s work, all evil comes from and inside of a man. Marks went the opposite way. Here, the cat is the personification of evil, which provokes human aggression with its aggression. This – actually fictitious – animal causes in man hatred and the desire to kill.
Obsession

A rather simplistic film produced in black-and-white about a worker’s troubles with the factory; with its fairly brilliant, collage-like use of cutouts of actual factory machinery.
Perpetuum & Mobile Ltd.

The story of a blind barrel-organist losing his dog and finding it again.
Everyday Chronicle

An alienated and lonely man goes to take a rest and dreams about the same torment and feeling of inability to bear the burdens of life that torment him even when he is awake. He dreams of his ups and downs, as well as fears which turned into symbols that also came from the rigid everyday reality.
Nightmare
A girl goes to buy bread...
How Ana Bought the Bread

In a follow up to Dušan Vukotić's 'Čarobni zvuci' (Magic Sounds), the violinist returns to bring Spring into life. Animated film by Aleksandar Marks and Vladimir Jutrisa.
Spring Sounds

A vicious circle of violence that inevitably connects the killer and his victim.
The Spider

Tells about a little violinist who played so wonderfully that his violin was considered magical.
Magic Sounds

A honeycomb in a beehive. A rhythmical collective of bees and the expectation of the birth of a baby bee. Immediately after birth, her collision with the World begins. She has to learn discipline and join the collective. Her mischief and curiosity make her look irresponsible, because every new situation drags her into an adventure someone needs to save her from. Different situations, different problems. She learns about life independently. Life kicks and beats her, so she finally settles in the bee collective.
A Bee Has Been Born

In the Wild West Saloon, the Black Gunslinger has just robbed two wretches at cards. Bar singer Kitty helps him with this dark work, but quickly falls out with him over the division of the spoils. In the fight, Kitty takes all the money from Black and would have had a bad time, if the White Avenger didn't come in at the right moment, and defeat the Black villain. White rescues Kitty, but instead of thanks he receives a loud slap from her. Kitty still prefers her Black friend and leaves with him.
The White Avenger
Animated short.
Metamorphosis

In the "Nature & Comp." reserve, animals live in perfect comfort, until their turn comes. A rich hunter buys a license to shoot a lion. Dignified and brave, the lion dies as befits him. A poor hunter buys a license for a rabbit. The rabbit escapes into the wild, but in freedom it experiences so many troubles that it returns again under the auspices of "Nature & Comp.".
A Modern Fable

A kindhearted ant unintentionally disrupts the order of the anthill.