Movie
Accidental Find
2019 · 55 min
A quiet, patient archival detective story that asks you to lean in and piece together fragments of strangers' lives from decaying film.
- Directed by
- Danko Volarić
- Genres
- Documentary
- Overview
- A few cases of 8mm film stock and reversals have been found at Jakuševac, a car boot sale in Zagreb. The film was shot in the 1940s and some is in colour, which was quite rare for the time. Based on the motifs and quality, it seems there were multiple cameramen. Who are the people found on the footage made over the most dramatic years of the 20th century? Nobody at Jakuševac asks where their purchases come from, so the investigation began on the outlines of the scarce indications that the material provided...
- How it feels
- Slow-burning and needs your attention.
- About
- Memory, identity, mystery, war
- Content
- Mild violence. No gore, sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Danko Volarić
- Genres
- Documentary