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The Boy with a Magic Horn

Damir Ocko
2007

During the Transition Period, Croatia abandoned one of the biggest projects ever to be built in the northern hemisphere: a university hospital that would occupy almost 250,000 square metres. The hospital was designed in the late '70s and partly built through the '80s, but was never completed. It forms the architectural backdrop for The Boy with a Magic Horn: derelict halls, bare concrete walls, labyrinths of unmarked rooms and nature invading the whole environment. Based on a Wagnerian scenario, the video depicts a dreamy and hallucinogenic

game that alien characters play in order to describe their new social and emotional displacement … a place that exists somewhere between hope and oblivion.

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Video / DVD
00:15:00
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