Ivan Faktor
Directing
Known For
In the spring of 1992, multimedia artist Ivan Faktor travels from war-struck Osijek to Copenhagen. To inform Danes of the ongoing war, his team appears on Stop TV, the most important independent TV station in Denmark. Faktor films the entire trip, his travel companions, the TV appearance, conversations on art and war, friends they visit, meeting his wife and son, and their trip back.
Osijek – Copenhagen, City Searching for a Killer
Structural film by Ivan Faktor, an exploration of the meta-medial potential of television.
Channel One
After being diagnosed with progressive Parkinson's disease, the legendary Croatian experimental filmmaker Ivan Faktor (b. 1953) decides to visualise his physical state with a mobile phone camera. Through interventions into received documentary modes, he creates a surprisingly spirited inner world of an artist imprisoned in space. This is filmmaking as the act of self-preservation.
Pain
Structural film by Ivan Faktor examining television and media.