About film
The life story and artistic career of Borivoj Dovniković Bordo were shaped by the historical shifts of epochal socio-political systems: these shifts (from the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, NDH, socijalist Yugoslavia, to the Republic of Croatia) are clearly discernible in the work of this world-renowned animator. Such a character is not reached through an anecdote, an interesting story or a skillful narration, but through an artistic structure, because the viewer believes in a figure that is, after all, only a drawing, i.e. he is put in a situation where he believes an illusion, and in order to believe it, that illusion must be vital, true and simple.
‘Learning to Walk 2’ offers a portrait of an ordinary man through a long epoch of the artist’s life, which witnessed challenging social and political upheavals, focusing on those moments in which the artist himself becomes, in a way, his own main character. Through the combination of Bordo’s animated works, comics and caricatures, this film talks about the freedom of creativity and seeks an answer to the eternal question: does there exist a systematic environment in which we really and truly walk or walk lamely, as Bordo’s universal hero does.
