Oko na Roki

Filmmaker Martin Sagadin reconstructs his memories of the last four years in what he calls "a nearly wordless collage of moving images and sound..."

"The one ‘experimental’ feature to be submitted by a New Zealand filmmaker this year is a thing of remarkable wandering beauty. Shot with a hand-held camera whenever the spirit took him over a period of four years, Martin Sagadin’s film is a succession of colour-saturated visual pleasures, woven with occasional diegetic sound and a feather-light musical score composed by Anita Clark and the filmmaker himself.

"Everything feels caught by the camera, not staged for it. Sagadin, his partner and their friends hang out, and traverse the wide open, often broken spaces of Christchurch where they live. They get out of town, follow the rivers, picnic in the hills, pop up in Wellington and Auckland. There are pets galore. The glimpse of a baby late in the film maybe signals a new phase ahead for this band of friends, but that’s to imply structure in a film shaped by memories that strike wherever Sagadin’s for beauty takes him." (New Zealand International Film Festival)

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