Directed by Sinisa Kukic
San Francisco State University, USA
Pump is an experimental short that involved mounting a Super 8 camera to various parts of a fixed gear bicycle and riding through the city of San Francisco.
Category: Experimental
Run-Time: 5:10
School: San Francisco State University, USA
Year of completion: 2006
Original shooting format: 8mm
Screening format: BetaSP (NTSC)
People/Crew
Director, Producer, Sound Designer, Editor Sinisa Kukic
Camera Operator Renato Kukic, Jessica Zak
Original Score Mandy Matz
Filmmaker Bio
Sinisa Kukic
Sinisa Kukic graduated from Southern Illinois University in 2005 with a dual degree in cinema and photography. His film, Breathe (2003), aired on FOX television, and his undergraduate thesis, Conduit of Displacement (2004), won the Loren D. Cocking Animation Award.
Kukic is currently enrolled in San Francisco State University's MFA Cinema program, where he continues to make experimental and documentary films. Other interests include cinematography, hand processing, and new forms of camera subjectivity. Pump (2006), his most recent film, explores the hybridization of the bicycle and the cyclist. His preoccupation with the particulars of camera carriage and movement are rooted in his involvement in the local biking community and his work as a racecar mechanic.
Born in the former Yugoslavia, Kukic and his family moved to Chicago when he was eleven. He currently resides in San Francisco, where he is editing Imaginary Lines, a documentary about migrant border crossings in Arizona.
[Director's Statement]
I find celluloid film to be an intensely physical medium of limitless possibilities. In Pump, I bring an awareness of this physicality and a dedication to exploring the malleability of celluloid. The emphasis I place on the importance of exploration fosters new and exciting ways of seeing.
This being said, I have always worked to couple the aesthetic experimentation of my films with political and ethical goals. I have made the bicycle and its potential as a counter-cultural tool, as well as a new aesthetic perspective, the focus of my intentions.
Pump is an experimental short that involved mounting a Super 8 camera to various parts of a fixed gear bicycle and riding around the city of San Francisco. Inspired by the city symphonies of Dziga Vertov, I have molded the urban energy of their compositions with a more visceral moving perspective. I believe the physicality of a bicycle offers a personal viewpoint that humanizes movement through industrial spaces and hybridizes traditions of hand-held and automotive camera movement.
NextFrame Screening Dates
Aug. 1 - 4, 2006
NEXTFRAME WORLD PREMIERE
Lawrence and Kristina Dodge College of Film and Media Arts
Chapman University
Program(s) screening: All Programs
Orange, CA
Web: www.chapman.edu
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Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2006
Indie Memphis Festival
Program(s) screening: Award Winners, Narrative, Documentary, Animation/Experimental
Memphis, TN
Web: www.deltaaxis.org
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March 7, 2007
Rhode Island School of Design
Program(s) screening: Animation/Experimental
Providence, RI
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March 30, 2007
Coolidge Corner Theater
New England Institute of Art
Program(s) screening: Narrative, Documentary, Animation/Experimental
Brookline, MA
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April 19, 2007
Griffith Film School
South Brisbane
Program(s) screening: Narrative, Documentary, Animation/Experimental
Queensland, Australia
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April/May 2007
University of Tennessee
School of Art
Program(s) screening: Narrative, Documentary, Animation/Experimental
Knoxville, TN
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March/April 2007
Open Student Television Network
Program(s) screening: Documentary, Animation/Experimental
Campuses across the U.S.
For more info: https://ostn.tv/
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May 5, 2007
Kozienalia 2007
Zarz'd uczelniany Samorz'du Studentow UMCS
Program(s) screening: Animation/Experimental
Tel/Fax: 081.5375416
Lublin, Poland
For more info: http://kozienalia.lublin.pl/
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Sept 14 - 15, 2007
University of Toledo
Lab Theatre, Center for Performing Arts
Program(s) screening: Documentary, Animation/Experimental
Toledo, OH
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