BUILDERS OF THE WORLDS - AN EXHIBITION ABOUT PRODUCTION DESIGN 
Gallery C8, 21th July at 20:00

“A production designer collects the existing reality for the need of the non-existent” (Hrvoje Hribar, film director, president of the Croatian Audiovisual Centre)

Production design means creating the space of a story, spacing an action, the atmosphere, the spatial and temporal context. Production design is creating new, imaginary, excusive worlds – worlds that will be populated by characters of a story.

Production design is an adventure that presumes curiosity and creativity, collaboration and communication, and a no less important - the ability to move heavy objects. Scenography is a built world. It is specific, tangible and habitable.

Who are these "Builders of the Worlds"? Production designer, yes. Production designers are supreme dreamers. By their sides stand prop managers, decorators and drafters, house painters and art painters, carpenters and locksmiths, students and scholars, drivers and sleuths, cooks and tailors, bookworms and bon vivants, illusionists and charmers.

The Builders of the Worlds are not afraid of heights, winter, darkness, nor the bar counter. They wear comfortable shoes. Their vehicles are always directed towards the exit. They can change gears, talk on a cell phone, chew a sandwich and shoot locations - at the same time. They do not like to be at anyone’s disposal, red lights, nor work related meetings. They like full attics, set tables and open roads.

The exhibition "Builders of the Worlds" within the Pula PROfessional programme of Pula Film Festival, deals with the "worlds" of Croatian films in this year's competition. All of these "Worlds", big or small, contemporary or timeless, reconstructed or re-created, lie in their stories and are inhabited by their characters. The construction builders - production designers - will share with us, in word and deed (and perhaps with an oversight), one of the stations on the path of spacing the story.

Tanja Lacko, production designer