Karpotrotter (2014)

Karpotrotter is a road movie about place time and memory as well as an homage to filmmaker Karpo Godina whose work flourished during the Black Wave of Yugoslav filmmaking in the late 1960s and early 1970s Contemporary filmmaker Matjaz Ivanisin retraces the footsteps 40 years later of his compatriots road trip through small villages in the rural countryside Constructed from Godinas 8mm footage from this journey Ivanisin interlaces this material with landscape footage from his current road trip and contemporary interviews of the citizenry who recall Godinas visit decades earlier period folkloric music augments the soundtrack The filmmaker structures his film in five sections that articulate the local character of different villages Richly multilayered in both temporal and spatial terms the filmmaker constructs a poignant meditation about the local village culture and inhabitants of this rural region of the former Yugoslavia