Maros Pulscak
Directing
Biography
Maros Pulscak is a Slovak film director specializing in fiction and documentary cinema. He studied Arts and Culture at Radboud University and completed a Master’s in Documentary Film from the Baltic Film School. Influenced by Surrealism and the Czechoslovak New Wave, his films challenge social norms and explore unconventional themes. His works Backstage Bardo (2023) and Fever Dream Jantien (2024) premiered at Black Nights. He is currently developing films like Guzzling Mouth and other projects.
Known For
The Netherlands, a bastion of capitalism, has struggled with unprecedented housing crises since 2018. This brings a rise of different ideologies that challenge the dominant status quo. In the city of Nijmegen, an anarchist collective JAN10 battles the ongoing housing crisis by squatting empty buildings, which poses a threat to the established capitalist interests.
Fever Dream Jan10
Backstage Bardo is a short documentary film that takes viewers on a unique journey into the daily life of morgue workers. The challenges of dealing with death are conveyed through an intimate, up-close perspective that offers insight into a world that is often shrouded in obscurity and misconception.
Backstage Bardo
A filmmaker returns to a house from his past where a great tragedy happened, in order to find a closure within the space that already feels too foreign.
Trauma in These Walls
Under the burden of poverty, the lonely peasant is visited by a mysterious man, which sets up a series of frightful events that lead the farmer on the paths of desperation, insanity, and alcoholism..