Silvestar
Kolbas
CV:
Silvestar Kolbas is a photographer, cinematographer, and director. He was born in Petrovci in 1956, and graduated in Film and TV Camera in 1982 from the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb. Today he is a full-time professor at the same institution.
Early in his professional career he works as freelance photographer and cinematographer. Then he starts working for Croatian Television on numerous TV programs, reports, and TV films; later, he becomes a top TV cinematographer. He had photo exhibitions, he wrote and edited papers about cinematography, directed two feature films and numerous short and TV films, series and documentaries.
He had his directorial debut in 2003, with his acclaimed autobiographical documentary film All About Eva. He has mostly been engaged in feature-length documentaries: Life in Fresh Air, Lucky Child, Lora – Testimonies, Mimara Revisited. His medium-length documentary War Reporter, produced by Factum, won him the annual Vladimir Nazor Award for Film in 2011.
Movies:
‘Ratni reporter’ prati zbivanja tijekom agresije na Hrvatsku 1991. godine, koja je promijenila život svim njenim građanima. Film nije istraživanje povijesnih istina, već autorovih osobnih istina. Koristeći snimke koje je načinio za vrijeme Domovinskog rata kao snimatelj Hrvatske televizije, autor iz prvog lica priča posve osobnu priču. Rat se događa na mjestima gdje je odrastao i sanjao neke dr...
COMPETITION
, Opatija Summer Stage
Samostalna produkcija: Silvestar Kolbas Audiovizualna djelatnost
2017,
20`
The film portrays the artistic lives of four graffiti artists – their creative process, assumptions about the society and how they define their own position within it. Zipo is an artist who works on trains. Simpl draws graffiti on the roofs. Nebitno writes messages and phrases on city walls. Mane Mei is halfway between being legal and illegal, he makes street art. The film is to a larger extent...
Opatija Summer Stage
(CROATIAN PREMIERE)
Silvestar Kolbas audiovizualna djelatnost
2022,
15`
This essay film on photography shows the passing of time through the ageing of the photographic material itself.
B&W photographs of the closed Fotokemika factory, which produced photographic paper and films, are taken on photographic negatives that were once produced in that factory. All materials expired a long time ago, many of them showing visible signs of decay.At the same time, it is a...
Opatija Summer Stage
Silvestar has for some time been the oldest Kolbas in his family. His parents are dead; his father died before the war, his mother a few years back. He is 68. He had a younger brother, who died from the consequences of the war. This is his second marriage. He has three children: Jakov, from his first marriage; Eva, from his second marriage, conceived in vitro; and Ante, adopted from an orphanag...
