2022-2023 MEET EU EMERGING FILMMAKER
In partnership with the Jean Monnet Center of Excellence at Florida International University, Center for European Studies of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and University of Pittsburgh’s European Studies Center, this year's MEET EU Emerging Filmmaker Residency goes to Vida Skerk from Zagreb Croatia.
The European Studies Center will be featuring her 2022 short film Night Ride (Noćna vožnja), a discussion with the director and reception to follow in the Frick Arts Cloister.
About: Night Ride explores quarter-life identity crisis through the perspective of a twentysomething student in Croatia. Dunja, the main character, questions her decision to move to a bigger city and regrets leaving behind the safety of her hometown where she could always count on the support of her close friend, Sara.
Exploring the “borders” and boundaries, the film is constructed as a series of dreams and nightmares which evade a linear narrative structure and retain the qualities of a more stream-of-consciousness approach, presenting to the viewer Dunja’s inner world in its most authentic, raw and honest form.