Goran DeviĆ

I Don’t Have Anything Nice to Tell You

Director	Goran Dević
Country of production:	Croatia
Year of production:	2006
Duration:	30 min
Director of Photography:	Jura Černec
Editing:	Vanja Siruček
Music:	Jeff Tweedy
Production:	Nenad Puhovski
Production and distribution:	Factum

Film plot

This film is full of striking scenes, especially at the beginning. Image 1: a mother tells a story about how she dreams of her killed daughter who is continuingly running away from her in her dream. Image two: graduation celebration in 1991 where the graduate students sing "Marjan, Marjan" and (It’s Spring, Evil’s Coming Up) (from the film Who’s That Singing Over There). Image three: waste Sisak at Night. Now, this is the symbol of the lack of the town’s prospect, and during the war, the background of the killing of people who were of “wrong” ethnicity. By telling the story about killed girl Ljubica and her mother who suspects who her murderers were, but no one may and does not want to help her, Dević tells a story about his town and its dark side, a unique documentary film noir about the town made even darker by the war than it used to be.

Goran Dević is undergraduate student at Faculty of Law and Faculty of Philosophy – Archaeology Department. He is four-year student of film and TV direction at Academy of Drama in Zagreb, the director of the reports in DIREKT programme.

Filmography

2002: Wrong Slicing – short feature film
2003: Have I Fucked Myself Up – documentary; Imported Crows – documentary