21/06/2025
OFFICIAL SELECTION WOOF: Mustra (Tena Ivanetić) ()
Mustra is an interdisciplinary artist from Croatia, based in the Netherlands. Her work is rooted in resilience, driven by curiosity, and shaped by a fearless embrace of new challenges. Her path has spanned diverse fields like veterinary medicine, environmental sustainability, animal and human rights, and activism, each one feeding into the raw urgency of her creative voice.
The stranger, in Croatian “Stranac”, is a short-mixed media film visualising artists theory of “possessive emotions” through a symbolic figure of a creature that has been inspired by Slavic paganism and artists vision of the self. Throughout this short film we are following main characters life, the solitude but also community, struggle, happiness, connectedness, belonging, not belonging, and being invisible when wearing bright colours.
credits:
Directed, written, edited and produced by Tena Ivanetić- Mustra
Camera: Lilla Jarocinska- Moth, Brian Waltmans
Creatures: Esther the Jester, Lilla Jarocinska aka Moth, Anastasia Tsoullofta, Victoria
Baudino Juan, Paul Ellfering
Main character: Tena Ivanetić-Mustra
Side characters-: The housemates or so called “Ullies” from the Ulliverse
The cat: Poochie Ullie
The original score: Ali Seif aka Orca man, Lilla Jarocinska aka Moth
Documentation: Lot Stalman
Costumes: Tena Ivanetić/ Mustra
Location- Landbouwbelang and Rastafari Boni’s