A dance, a fantasy and a queer road film somewhere in the Dalmatian hinterland.
Dragon Hunt
17’ 30”
HD stereo
2024
Taking Samuel Delany’s 1984 SciFi novel ‘Stars In My Pocket Like Grains of Sand’ as a point of departure, in a joint effort with other artists Marko Gutić Mižimakov has labored a work which is at once a dance, fantasy, and a queer road film. Its protagonists, animated by the weirdening landscape of the Dalmatian hinterland and enraptured by the sound of the conch shell, partake in the melding tradition of Dragon Hunting. An exploration in somatics, media translation, mimicry, and the sensuous, Dragon Hunt is a result of mutual transformability exercised between fellow artist friends, the landscape, different machine learning algorithms and filmmaking procedures.
about
Marko Gutić Mižimakov is an artist working with animation, performance, text and collaboration.
Often in drag, interfacing with machine learning & conch shells, he sees his work as a speculative technology of mutual transformation.
www.instagram.com/akvae
http://performing.site
http://queeranarchive.hr
credits
director: Marko Gutić Mižimakov
cast: DISCOllective, Nika Pećarina, Sonja Pregrad, Lana Hosni, Marko Gutić Mižimakov
camera: Lea Anić
editing, animation, compositing: Marko Gutić Mižimakov
saxophone: Max Franklin
conch horns: Lana Hosni & Jasen Vodenica
sound mix&master: Ivna Jurković
initial research: Max Brands
additional support: Ivna Franić, Neža Knez, Petar Sarjanović
executive producer: Tonči Kranjčević Batalić
production: queerAnarchive
