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Four creative videos from Croatia

We explore independent cultural activities and organisations in Croatia, including areas far removed from known cultural hubs. Croatia's cultural scene is developing and expanding in many ways.

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Interview with Petar Milat		Dubrovnik
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Split		Korcula
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An exclusive interview with Petar Milat, one of the founders of Multimedia Institute in Zagreb, is an in-depth evaluation of the last ten years of struggling to establish a healthier cultural environment and to widen the framework for restructuring cultural policies.

The videos from Dubrovnik and Split show a huge amount of cultural and artistic potential, long-term in the field experience, as well as immense efforts to build up a community. These cities are usually seen as tourist destinations, but there is a whole lot more to be discovered and explored in terms of the cultural sector.

Finally, the Korcula video presents a critical snapshot of the potential of this particular island's cultural life, which still needs to be converted from the mainstream "tourist culture". It cries out for real cultural and artistic programmes to be implemented, thus maximising the beauty and cultural history of the island and the south Adriatic Sea region.

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it is great to see that croatian independent cultural sector gets yet another display in the international arena, especially so online labforculture. still, as the stories that we all well know from the region unravel, it is depressing to realize that little has changed in the local understanding of these organisations' work and acitivites. so, it works out that every presentiation of the work by these organisations should be followed by local cultural policy questions or an overview why is it that they continue to be active in spite of unadequate local support rather than because of it. or, why is it easier to achieve international, transnational, cross-border etc. etc. cooperation than the cooperation with the people next door? the issue in our region truly will no longer be the promotion of intercultural dialogue but of intracultural dialogue.