The General / General in resni človek

Vlado Kristl (VibaFilm)

1962, Yugoslavia (Slovenia), 9'36''

Man who never smiles makes people laugh, except for the pompous official. His exaggerated pompousness makes the serious man laugh to the extent that brings him into trouble.

Mož, ki se sam nikoli ne smeji, spravlja v smeh vse, razen pompoznega uradnika. Uradnikova pretirana pompoznost spravi resnobnega moža v tak smeh, da si nakoplje težave.

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Techniques: Live action

Written and directed: Vlado Kristl
DOP: France Cerar
Assistant DOP: Viki Pogačar
Artistic consultant: Djurdica Flerè
Acting: Vlado Krstl
Assistant director: France Kosmač
Volunteering assistant director: Tomislav Radić
Ton: Marjan Meglič
Sound editing: Olga Jež
Film Executive: Borut Bizovičar
Sound: Branimir Sakač
Sound collaborator: Janko Horvat

Vlado Kristl

was a Croatian visual artist in the 1950s, associated with the EXAT 51 collective, as well as the filmmakers and animators of the Zagreb Film group. In the mid-1950s, he emigrated to Chile, but returned to Yugoslavia after a few years. IN 1962, he was forced to emigrate after his film General caused an uproar. He settled in Hamburg and began lecturing at the Academy of Fine Arts. He continued to make films, which were increasingly iconoclastic and anarchistic. His artistic style is difficult to set firmly within a specific set of parameters. While he was fascinated with geometry and abstraction, he returned to figurative painting later in his career, even portraiture. Martin Brady, a British scholar who wrote his Ph.D. on Kristl’s work, recalled after many years that the artist couldn’t believe it would ever be a successful thesis as he couldn’t imagine anyone might be able to set his work within any theoretical constructs. As it turned out, Kristl was correct in his assessment.

Source: http://transatlantic.artmuseum.pl/en/artist/vlado-kristl