Darko Bakliža

An empty paper depicts a struggle between artistic composition and decomposition as the voice of the narrator-protagonist reminisces about her tumultuous relationship with a former girlfriend.

Learning from his previous encounter with the dragon the knight decides to change his plan of attack. Taking an intelligent approach to the fight seems to pay off. However, ego can be the downfall to any victory.

Searching for her role, a young Actress is trying to grasp what she sees in her own reflection. She notices how her outline, albeit blurry enough for her exhausted and weary face not to shame her, is in fact unrecognisable. The long, almost incurable insomnia has made the world surrounding the Actress also fade. Objects and spatial parameters have disappeared and time frames vanish. We are left with the expression of the Actress’s body and the flow of her thoughts in the background.

Neanderthals cross their territory hunting a mammoth. Once a friendly mammoth notices the danger, she joins in the fight making the Neanderthals flee in turn. As the mammoths take chase, more Neanderthals join in the hunt and turn away the mammoths. As both groups grow in numbers, the sabretooth tigers take this opportunity to try and catch some easy prey. The mammoths and the Neanderthals must now both run away from the danger.

An author in a creative crisis is sitting in front of his computer screen and trying to make a film out of random doodles. He hesitates over the title of the film and finally decides on the name Adaptation. With the help of artificial intelligence, the doodles are molded into one form or another and the actual theme is slowly revealed - the perception of the human body depending on whether it is clothed or naked. Artificial intelligence is a great invention, but during the process we realize that it is not just a technical aid, but a serious and intrusive co-creator of the process. Can the author adapt to it?