2011 · ten-day collaborative short-film training workshop · film workshop project
Ten-day film workshop uniting disciplines into one collaborative, mentor-guided production process in practice.
Desetodnevna filmska radionica u kojoj se različite umjetnosti spajaju u jedan zajednički, mentorski vođen kratki film.
This project credentials: Workshops & mentoring
Sedma umjetnost was a proposal, and I want to be honest that in our archive it stays one. In July 2010 the three of us, Zrinka Rogulj, Luka Venturin and I, put together a ten-day workshop where film would be the meeting point of several arts rather than a single-craft class, and we costed it properly at 48.804,00 kn instead of waving at a number. What I can stand behind is the package: a concept, a day-by-day programme from brainstorming to postproduction, contacts, and a budget that already accounted for sponsors and volunteer work bringing the real cost down.
What I cannot show you is the ending. I do not have an acceptance, a participant list, or a finished film to point at, and I would rather say that plainly than dress it up. It was an early exercise in building something submittable, and it holds up as exactly that.
- Matija Radeljak
Sedma umjetnost (The seventh art) was a ten-day film workshop that Matija Radeljak, Zrinka Rogulj and Luka Venturin assembled in July 2010. The premise sat in the name: not a technical course in a single craft but film treated as the seventh art, the place where the others meet. Participants were meant to bring their own disciplines and bend them into one shared short film rather than guard them separately.
The plan was built the way a production is built. On 13 July 2010 the team drafted the concept and vision, laid out a ten-day working rhythm, and opened an itemized cost spreadsheet. Two days later, on 15 July, the whole thing existed as a finished proposal in DOCX and PDF, with a cover packet listing every attachment and the application form. The curriculum ran like a compressed shoot: brainstorming, synopsis and screenplay, preproduction, shooting days, then postproduction and pickups, with guest lectures placed to feed each stage instead of replacing the participants' own work.
The budget was just as concrete. Total planned cost was 48.804,00 HRK, split across honoraria (17.200,00 kn), locations, scenography, costumes and props (6.600,00 kn), camera (10.100,00 kn), sound (700,00 kn), lighting (2.000,00 kn), work materials (5.700,00 kn), general costs (4.180,00 kn) and a five-percent reserve. The document was frank that partners, sponsors, donations and volunteer work could pull several market-price lines down, a costing that already anticipated how a thing like this actually gets funded.
What the archive does not hold is the sequel. The package contains an application form, but no acceptance, no participant list, no finished workshop film and no press. On the evidence, Sedma umjetnost is a fully completed plan whose downstream life went unrecorded. What it does prove cleanly is development craft: turning a curatorial idea into a submittable package, concept, ten-day curriculum, named contacts and a defensible budget, in roughly two days.
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