https://matijaferlin.com matija ferlin Fri, 23 Jan 2026 11:01:44 +0000 https://matijaferlin.com en https://matijaferlin.com/Backdrop-video Wed, 27 May 2020 13:13:06 +0000 matija ferlin https://matijaferlin.com/Backdrop-video https://matijaferlin.com/Projects-1 Sun, 26 Apr 2020 22:21:44 +0000 matija ferlin https://matijaferlin.com/Projects-1 Jon Fosse:&nbsp;Sleep, My Baby, Sleep&nbsp;2 0 2 5 &nbsp;Show Gone&nbsp;2 0 2 5 Meg Stuart: Matija (Portrait)&nbsp;2 0 2 5&nbsp;Jean Luc Lagarce: Only the End of the World&nbsp;2 0 2 4 &nbsp;Jazzino&nbsp;2 0 2 3 &nbsp;Jon Fosse: Mother and Child&nbsp;2 0 2 3 &nbsp;But I am Alive&nbsp;2 0 2 3 &nbsp;Canti di Prigionia 2 0 2 3 &nbsp;Uno tra i molti epiloghi&nbsp;2 0 2 2 &nbsp;Students of Insistence&nbsp;2 0 2 2 &nbsp;Sad Sam Matthäus 2 0 2 1 &nbsp;A Meditation on Migration or a Garden That is not a Garden&nbsp;2 0 2 0 &nbsp;That Emerging Place&nbsp;2 0 1 9 &nbsp;A Piece For the Occasion 2 0 1 9 &nbsp; Staging a Play: Antigone 2 0 1 8&nbsp; Vladimir Nazor: Water 2 0 1 8&nbsp; Choreography for Objects while the Performer is Absent&nbsp;2 0 1 8 &nbsp;Staging a Play: Tartuffe 2 0 1 7&nbsp; In the Eyes 2 0 1 6&nbsp; Students of Images 2 0 1 6&nbsp; Jonah’s Dialogues 2 0 1 6&nbsp; Staging a Play: Glass Menagerie 2 0 1 5&nbsp; Out of Season 2 0 1 5&nbsp; We are Kings not Humans 2 0 1 5&nbsp; Students of Harmony 2 0 1 4&nbsp; The Other at the Same Time 2 0 1 2&nbsp; Sad Sam Lucky 2 0 1 2&nbsp; Solitaires 2 0 1 1&nbsp; Onformance 2 0 1 0&nbsp; Sad Sam Almost 6 2 0 0 9&nbsp; The Most Together We’ve Ever Been 2 0 0 9&nbsp; The Other for One 2 0 0 7&nbsp; Give My Love to Your Family&nbsp;2 0 0 7&nbsp; Sad Sam Revisited 2 0 0 4 Matija Ferlin’s work has been supported by : Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia . City Municipality of Ljubljana . Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia . City of Pula . Istria County . Municipality of Svetvinčenat . Kultura Nova Foundation . Zagreb City Office for Culture, Education and Sport . The Canada Council for the Arts . Ontario Arts Council https://matijaferlin.com/Projects-s-filtrima Thu, 04 Nov 2021 14:54:12 +0000 matija ferlin https://matijaferlin.com/Projects-s-filtrima Sad Sam Matthäus 2 0 2 1 &nbsp;That Emerging Place&nbsp;2 0 1 9 &nbsp;A Piece For the Occasion 2 0 1 9 &nbsp; Staging a Play: Antigone 2 0 1 8&nbsp; Vladimir Nazor: Water 2 0 1 8&nbsp; Choreography for Objects while the Performer is Absent&nbsp;2 0 1 8 &nbsp;Staging a Play: Tartuffe 2 0 1 7&nbsp; In the Eyes 2 0 1 6&nbsp; Students of Images 2 0 1 6&nbsp; Jonah’s Dialogues 2 0 1 6&nbsp; Staging a Play: Glass Menagerie 2 0 1 5&nbsp; Out of Season 2 0 1 5&nbsp; We are Kings not Humans 2 0 1 5&nbsp; Students of Harmony 2 0 1 4&nbsp; The Other at the Same Time 2 0 1 2&nbsp; Sad Sam Lucky 2 0 1 2&nbsp; Solitaires 2 0 1 1&nbsp; Onformance 2 0 1 0&nbsp; Sad Sam Almost 6 2 0 0 9&nbsp; The Most Together We’ve Ever Been 2 0 0 9&nbsp; The Other for One 2 0 0 7&nbsp; Give My Love to Your Family&nbsp;2 0 0 7&nbsp; Sad Sam Revisited 2 0 0 4 Matija Ferlin’s work has been supported by : Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia . City Municipality of Ljubljana . Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia . City of Pula . Istria County . Municipality of Svetvinčenat . Kultura Nova Foundation . Zagreb City Office for Culture, Education and Sport . The Canada Council for the Arts . Ontario Arts Council https://matijaferlin.com/Jon-Fosse-Sleep-my-baby-sleep Tue, 20 Jan 2026 19:39:13 +0000 matija ferlin https://matijaferlin.com/Jon-Fosse-Sleep-my-baby-sleep Jon Fosse: Sleep, My Baby, Sleep&nbsp;2 0 2 5 <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3e277b138ff0faa12ee8f09a55d09149ee1c2c9dd6263c6398aae1cd3bcd0371/WEB-REZOLUCIJA-spavaj-dijete-moje-13.jpg" data-mid="243663290" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3e277b138ff0faa12ee8f09a55d09149ee1c2c9dd6263c6398aae1cd3bcd0371/WEB-REZOLUCIJA-spavaj-dijete-moje-13.jpg" /> SLEEP, MY BABY, SLEEP . Dance performance based on the play by Jon Fosse .&nbsp;Author Jon Fosse . Direction, choreography Matija Ferlin . In collaboration with dancers&nbsp;Petra Chelfi . Martina Tomić . Ivana Pavlović . Petra Valentić&nbsp;. Light design Anton Modrušan . Sound design Luka Prinčič . Costume design Desanka Janković . Matija Ferlin . Translation&nbsp;Dubravko Torjanac . Masks&nbsp;Mr. Mask . Graphic design&nbsp;Tina Ivezić / Oaza . Video &amp; trailer&nbsp;Lovro Mrđen . Vid Begić . Marketing &amp; PR&nbsp;Ana Suntešić . Ivana Sansević . Production&nbsp;Katana . Tras . In collaboration with&nbsp;Mediterranean Dance Center San Vincenti . Zagreb Dance Center . Supported by&nbsp;Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia . City of Zagreb &nbsp; &nbsp; In the context of the (specific) atmosphere of listening to Ferlin's voice, Fosse's play, as well as its dramaturgical paradigm, exists only in some symbolic field of powerful reflection. Ferlin's directing, choreography, rejects characters, names, characterization and plot, and instead builds an atmosphere of uncertainty and vulnerability through the body, through space, music, silence, and through fragments of movement. Just as Fosse asks the reader to listen – not just words, but breath, silence or rhythm – so too the play invites the audience to look-as-a-state-of-attention. Towards what? Towards micro-movement, uncertain transitions and the unspoken. In one of Fosse's most performed plays, Natta syng sine songar (1997), such a paradigm of forced listening has already been used, where, namely, the word “I” is repeated more than a hundred times, and such repetitiveness is not a mere figure, but exists in the language itself. It maintains tension, connection between characters, and a void that gives depth. This implies that communication in Fosse’s world is always uncertain, always fragile, so words come and go, leaving a trace but not providing answers. Such openness to uncertainty and ambiguity, a very “specific ambiguity”, becomes a space for the subjective filling of meaning, as well as for the individual resonance of the audience. Taking this principle, Ferlin’s choreography does not offer a clear, universal message – and does not impose meaning, but opens a vortex of sensation(s) or interpretation(s). The characters are nameless performers, and the performers are impersonal characters, without stable (inter)relationships; their existence is in the body, space, and time. Thus, the performance takes from Fosse’s poetics not only the stage form (silence, repetition, minimalism), but also the ethics of vulnerability, the acceptance of uncertainty – for the body and in the body, that is, for what is “between words”. In Ferlin's direction, ordinary movements or routines are made more difficult – both literally (weights on the performers' legs, which are not visible) and metaphorically – everything in the performance gains weight, becomes supportable, potent. By integrating Fosse's dramaturgical-aesthetic-poetic principles into its choreographic text, the performance builds a liminal world that hovers between reality and dream, which does not allow for a soothing reading, but rather encourages constant sensitization – towards vulnerability, towards the body, towards space. And in this vulnerability, a space for togetherness opens up – the viewer is no longer a distanced observer, but a participant invited to fill the void and experience meaning with their own perceptions and senses. Read more &nbsp; &nbsp; PHOTOS BY JELENA JANKOVIĆ <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0a645de898d3a92c05bf70a42938a0394d615b6613904f5471ad4a388817b105/WEB-REZOLUCIJA-spavaj-dijete-moje-14.jpg" data-mid="243663291" border="0" alt="photos by jelena janković" data-caption="photos by jelena janković" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0a645de898d3a92c05bf70a42938a0394d615b6613904f5471ad4a388817b105/WEB-REZOLUCIJA-spavaj-dijete-moje-14.jpg" /><img width="2500" height="1668" width_o="2500" height_o="1668" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/12d5203c60076638f216d5bd404eb44bcf70039c0810247e98327c542ae6e696/WEB-REZOLUCIJA-spavaj-dijete-moje-25.jpg" data-mid="243663292" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/12d5203c60076638f216d5bd404eb44bcf70039c0810247e98327c542ae6e696/WEB-REZOLUCIJA-spavaj-dijete-moje-25.jpg" /> <img width="3543" height="2363" width_o="3543" height_o="2363" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1662ddb441647175c8e3ce329bd603ceb7bf341e91bcdfd45ee6dd583be543ae/WEB-REZOLUCIJA-SPAVAJ-DJETE-MOJE.-1-of-1.jpg" data-mid="243663293" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1662ddb441647175c8e3ce329bd603ceb7bf341e91bcdfd45ee6dd583be543ae/WEB-REZOLUCIJA-SPAVAJ-DJETE-MOJE.-1-of-1.jpg" /><img width="3000" height="2001" width_o="3000" height_o="2001" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2a441a814127aafef2f96f3b5dd535a366a8eb0929b8c29be48dbeaf6feb8c5c/WEB-REZOLUCIJA-SPAVAJ-DJETE-MOJE.-7-of-20.jpg" data-mid="243663294" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2a441a814127aafef2f96f3b5dd535a366a8eb0929b8c29be48dbeaf6feb8c5c/WEB-REZOLUCIJA-SPAVAJ-DJETE-MOJE.-7-of-20.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="2001" width_o="3000" height_o="2001" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0b5fd90836b57533d74392ac3f81a6092a81c9667e1faee096ec1a84ca6c5e10/WEB-REZOLUCIJA-SPAVAJ-DJETE-MOJE.-8-of-20.jpg" data-mid="243663295" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0b5fd90836b57533d74392ac3f81a6092a81c9667e1faee096ec1a84ca6c5e10/WEB-REZOLUCIJA-SPAVAJ-DJETE-MOJE.-8-of-20.jpg" /><img width="3000" height="2001" width_o="3000" height_o="2001" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ab27842134b0b9f2d5ad016027ca54034ad424943d2da5e55f78e90686b791ce/WEB-REZOLUCIJA-SPAVAJ-DJETE-MOJE.-15-of-20.jpg" data-mid="243663296" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ab27842134b0b9f2d5ad016027ca54034ad424943d2da5e55f78e90686b791ce/WEB-REZOLUCIJA-SPAVAJ-DJETE-MOJE.-15-of-20.jpg" />was presented at : 2026 ZPC, Zagreb, HRJanuary 2025 2025 ZPC, Zagreb, HRDecember 2025Mediterranean Dance Center, Svetvinčenat, HRNovember 2025 &lt;–&nbsp;SAD SAM REVISITED SHOW GONE &nbsp;–&gt; https://matijaferlin.com/Show-Gone Tue, 20 Jan 2026 17:21:55 +0000 matija ferlin https://matijaferlin.com/Show-Gone Show Gone&nbsp;2 0 2 5 <img width="2400" height="1600" width_o="2400" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3b9cbf37c1ca5af5acd316a4329493cd6f96ddf2557a4a1113e57538d8a9dca3/Show_Gone-Photo-web-15.jpg" data-mid="243661484" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3b9cbf37c1ca5af5acd316a4329493cd6f96ddf2557a4a1113e57538d8a9dca3/Show_Gone-Photo-web-15.jpg" /> SHOW GONE . Choreography and performance Matija Ferlin . Ame Henderson . Dramaturgy Goran Ferčec . Scenography Mauricio Ferlin . Light design Dario Družeta . Costumes Matija Ferlin . Desanka Janković . Artistic support Diego Gil . Katie Ward . Subtitles&nbsp;David Gagnon Walker . Communications&nbsp;Evan Webber . Documentation&nbsp;Noel Pendawa . Technical direction&nbsp;Darah Miah . Production&nbsp;Provincija . Ame Henderson Projects . Coproduction&nbsp;Agora de la danse . Public Recordings . Creative residencies&nbsp;Agora de la danse . Mediterranean Dance Center Svetvinčenat . Support&nbsp;Canada Council for the Arts . City of Pula . Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia&nbsp; PHOTOS BY NOEL PENDAWA <img width="2400" height="1600" width_o="2400" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/39d47a26129c393b6f6acaf985a0af80962795b4385261a2cc251f984eacf5ef/Show_Gone-Photo-web-6.jpg" data-mid="243661478" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/39d47a26129c393b6f6acaf985a0af80962795b4385261a2cc251f984eacf5ef/Show_Gone-Photo-web-6.jpg" /><img width="2400" height="1600" width_o="2400" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b3ea621e1fb29e0dfb30328bb731bb3f529d9654f62edf515455e25eed054810/Show_Gone-Photo-web-9.jpg" data-mid="243661481" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b3ea621e1fb29e0dfb30328bb731bb3f529d9654f62edf515455e25eed054810/Show_Gone-Photo-web-9.jpg" /><img width="2400" height="1600" width_o="2400" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4e5bc9bd5c50dc729ef4cde1a857e5334fc4cde14b4bd78b51728d7d910c98fc/Show_Gone-Photo-web-16.jpg" data-mid="243661485" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4e5bc9bd5c50dc729ef4cde1a857e5334fc4cde14b4bd78b51728d7d910c98fc/Show_Gone-Photo-web-16.jpg" /><img width="2400" height="1600" width_o="2400" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b8851f3864c59afb614f4fbdd7676bd4f617a1dd285f5a5947c5ffa6d195fbfe/Show_Gone-Photo-web-27.jpg" data-mid="243661488" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b8851f3864c59afb614f4fbdd7676bd4f617a1dd285f5a5947c5ffa6d195fbfe/Show_Gone-Photo-web-27.jpg" /><img width="1600" height="2400" width_o="1600" height_o="2400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e4cb0221c79a210d7a22f5cb0052dc3b16d476a94e97f319c21fa218199339f7/Show_Gone-Photo-web-35.jpg" data-mid="243661490" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e4cb0221c79a210d7a22f5cb0052dc3b16d476a94e97f319c21fa218199339f7/Show_Gone-Photo-web-35.jpg" /><img width="2400" height="1600" width_o="2400" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/21bb42489edfeccccd2515c229cb690ae315384e6bf7633fc774124902f02f2e/Show_Gone-Photo-web-39.jpg" data-mid="243661494" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/21bb42489edfeccccd2515c229cb690ae315384e6bf7633fc774124902f02f2e/Show_Gone-Photo-web-39.jpg" /><img width="2400" height="1600" width_o="2400" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/376a7a015e4fb5d0cb81fa3460b0a30b1d7dbcd507b2f01f308dbc4fa479b4b0/Show_Gone-Photo-web-41.jpg" data-mid="243661497" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/376a7a015e4fb5d0cb81fa3460b0a30b1d7dbcd507b2f01f308dbc4fa479b4b0/Show_Gone-Photo-web-41.jpg" /> was presented at : 2025 La Rotonde, Quebec City, CANovember 2025 Agora de la danse, Montreal, CANovember 2025 MPC, Svetvinčenat, HRSeptember 2025 &lt;– JON FOSSE: SLEEP, MY BABY, SLEEP MEG STUART: MATIJA (PORTRAIT) &nbsp;–&gt; https://matijaferlin.com/Jean-Luc-Lagarce-Only-the-End-of-the-World Tue, 20 Jan 2026 17:21:31 +0000 matija ferlin https://matijaferlin.com/Jean-Luc-Lagarce-Only-the-End-of-the-World Jean Luc Lagarce: Only the End of the World&nbsp;2 0 2 4 <img width="1772" height="1182" width_o="1772" height_o="1182" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cf072accc1bc8cd345b87dc85845a730ab77308b6c4c074457fa86d223112dd9/Samo-kraj-svijeta-11.jpg" data-mid="243642805" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cf072accc1bc8cd345b87dc85845a730ab77308b6c4c074457fa86d223112dd9/Samo-kraj-svijeta-11.jpg" /> JEAN LUC LAGARCE: ONLY THE END OF THE WORLD . Translator Zlatko Wurzberg . Director Matija Ferlin . Dramaturgy Goran Ferčec . Set designers Mauricio Ferlin, Josip Kresović . Costume designer Matija Ferlin . Choreographer Matija Ferlin . Costume design associate&nbsp;Marta Žegura . Light designer&nbsp;Elvis Butković . Music by&nbsp;Luka Prinčič . Stage manager&nbsp;Petra Prša . Graphic designer&nbsp;Antonio Dolić . Photographer&nbsp;Jelena Janković . Actors&nbsp;Petra Svrtan . Dora Polić Vitez . Mia Melcher . Ugo Korani . Luka Knez . Produced by&nbsp;Zagreb Youth Theatre . Istrian National Theatre - City Theatre Pula&nbsp;Matija Ferlin’s directing of Lagarce transcends traditional drama to become a “rhapsodic scenic essay”, where the weight of the unspoken carries as much power as the spoken word. The narrative centers on Louis, a 34-year-old man who, shadowed by his own imminent mortality, returns to his childhood home after a long absence to face the family he left behind. His arrival triggers a visceral collision with his mother, his younger sister, his brother, and his sister-in-law, exposing deep-seated emotional wounds and the agonizing failure of communication between those who should be closest. Ferlin’s choreo-directorial signature treats Lagarce’s poetic language as a sixth character, using it to highlight the tension between the need for connection and the inability to achieve it. This duality is anchored by a ensemble as communitas, paraphrasing many elements of “the Ferlin oeuvre”, thus navigating a world where the body speaks as loudly as the script. The choreography of movement, particularly the physical dynamics between the brothers, breathes life into the characters’ existential crises, while Mauricio Ferlin and Josip Kresović’s opulent, dreamlike scenography of flowers and fences, much of it reused from a previous production, serves as a haunting backdrop. A particularly striking visual metaphor features the protagonist mirrored by a shadow-figure constructed from pieces of a coffin, emphasizing the inescapable presence of death. Through a blend of uncompromising research, grotesque humor, and physical intensity, Ferlin has not only delivered a sophisticated introspective piece but has also solidified his role as a transformative force in the cultural landscape of Pula, offering a poetic bonus to those open to the raw, fragmented power of contemporary theatre. Read more PHOTOS BY JELENA JANKOVIĆ <img width="1182" height="1772" width_o="1182" height_o="1772" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9630271d0a8ec93d29c6708012ce7d36648a45258a97afd55a2242fc642fe30d/Samo-kraj-svijeta-2.jpg" data-mid="243642798" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9630271d0a8ec93d29c6708012ce7d36648a45258a97afd55a2242fc642fe30d/Samo-kraj-svijeta-2.jpg" /> <img width="1024" height="1535" width_o="1024" height_o="1535" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6084355856669f60c9d62f4726cc9a506b511542b95540e1c83af32d02dce6de/Samo-kraj-svijeta-1.jpg" data-mid="243642797" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6084355856669f60c9d62f4726cc9a506b511542b95540e1c83af32d02dce6de/Samo-kraj-svijeta-1.jpg" /> <img width="1772" height="1182" width_o="1772" height_o="1182" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d9481567c465361deebb998354dadc031b9a266b92c97927a0e207bccd0f108f/Samo-kraj-svijeta-4.jpg" data-mid="243642799" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d9481567c465361deebb998354dadc031b9a266b92c97927a0e207bccd0f108f/Samo-kraj-svijeta-4.jpg" /><img width="1772" height="1182" width_o="1772" height_o="1182" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f27dbf9b76e0da9990f1b864f60571d08776d64954794ac8c042f798e62ff9de/Samo-kraj-svijeta-6.jpg" data-mid="243642800" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f27dbf9b76e0da9990f1b864f60571d08776d64954794ac8c042f798e62ff9de/Samo-kraj-svijeta-6.jpg" /><img width="1772" height="1182" width_o="1772" height_o="1182" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1ecd3b831408351819dfe5eee903c64a5176ab0b8b1a62b0dd7d742fd2f74769/Samo-kraj-svijeta-10.jpg" data-mid="243642804" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1ecd3b831408351819dfe5eee903c64a5176ab0b8b1a62b0dd7d742fd2f74769/Samo-kraj-svijeta-10.jpg" /><img width="1772" height="986" width_o="1772" height_o="986" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/006d9401bbe8e171fa77f2dd98b9fd0aa9615bfa59c35ed70fbb03e51c84b273/Samo-kraj-svijeta-7-e1730982668725.jpg" data-mid="243642801" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/006d9401bbe8e171fa77f2dd98b9fd0aa9615bfa59c35ed70fbb03e51c84b273/Samo-kraj-svijeta-7-e1730982668725.jpg" /> <img width="1772" height="1182" width_o="1772" height_o="1182" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a2a8a5038a083f7b919d94de5063157c10096e188290220be3c39fa32ac326bc/Samo-kraj-svijeta-9.jpg" data-mid="243642803" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a2a8a5038a083f7b919d94de5063157c10096e188290220be3c39fa32ac326bc/Samo-kraj-svijeta-9.jpg" /><img width="1772" height="1182" width_o="1772" height_o="1182" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f8bf53964407829e15fcffb65c3c1200ab13ea4758b3780b228aeca78604dc78/Samo-kraj-svijeta-8.jpg" data-mid="243642802" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f8bf53964407829e15fcffb65c3c1200ab13ea4758b3780b228aeca78604dc78/Samo-kraj-svijeta-8.jpg" /><img width="1772" height="1182" width_o="1772" height_o="1182" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f988b6caf0a1856b5273876d7c09ed0a52f41dd145fa12f1866121ebfe4c364f/Samo-kraj-svijeta-14-e1730982686871.jpg" data-mid="243642807" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f988b6caf0a1856b5273876d7c09ed0a52f41dd145fa12f1866121ebfe4c364f/Samo-kraj-svijeta-14-e1730982686871.jpg" />was presented at : 2025 ZKM, Zagreb Youth Theatre, Zagreb, HRMarch 2025ZKM, Zagreb Youth Theatre, Zagreb, HRFebruary 2025 INK, Istrian National Theatre, Pula, HRJanuary 2025ZKM, Zagreb Youth Theatre, Zagreb, HRJanuary 2025 2024 ZKM, Zagreb Youth Theatre, Zagreb, HRDecember 2024INK, Istrian National Theatre, Pula, HRNovember 2024 ZKM, Zagreb Youth Theatre, Zagreb, HRNovember 2024 &lt;–&nbsp;SHOW GONE JAZZINO&nbsp;–&gt; https://matijaferlin.com/Meg-Stuart-Matija-Portrait Fri, 23 Jan 2026 11:01:44 +0000 matija ferlin https://matijaferlin.com/Meg-Stuart-Matija-Portrait Meg Stuart: Matija (Portrait)&nbsp;2 0 2 4 <img width="2500" height="1406" width_o="2500" height_o="1406" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e4d31f4162a58f2ee069a04af27c157bf025fbae4cd51fa80702456ce0512c7a/w_Screenshot-2026-01-22-at-13.04.42.jpg" data-mid="243967546" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e4d31f4162a58f2ee069a04af27c157bf025fbae4cd51fa80702456ce0512c7a/w_Screenshot-2026-01-22-at-13.04.42.jpg" /> MEG STUART: MATIJA (PORTRAIT)&nbsp;. Video, 7’ by Meg Stuart . Performed by Matija Ferlin . Music Brendan Dougherty . Camera Michele Bulešić . Technical support Teo Morosin . Production Meg Stuart&nbsp; . Coproduction&nbsp;Provincija . Supported by&nbsp;Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia&nbsp; <img width="2500" height="1406" width_o="2500" height_o="1406" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/160e762e63b754432351898444a61eff001bd17efbed32fea2e5cb10543458d4/w_Screenshot-2026-01-22-at-13.01.25.jpg" data-mid="243967533" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/160e762e63b754432351898444a61eff001bd17efbed32fea2e5cb10543458d4/w_Screenshot-2026-01-22-at-13.01.25.jpg" /><img width="2500" height="1406" width_o="2500" height_o="1406" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0d96782f8ef39e72f39f57df0273e64844b6cfd65d3c0739bed23dbf2a242962/w_Screenshot-2026-01-22-at-13.01.55.jpg" data-mid="243967536" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0d96782f8ef39e72f39f57df0273e64844b6cfd65d3c0739bed23dbf2a242962/w_Screenshot-2026-01-22-at-13.01.55.jpg" /><img width="2500" height="1406" width_o="2500" height_o="1406" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5ae6cad12fdd51f9d3036806bcb4187589f0dcb27d9eea123d21b3976e528b6a/w_Screenshot-2026-01-22-at-13.03.43.jpg" data-mid="243967544" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5ae6cad12fdd51f9d3036806bcb4187589f0dcb27d9eea123d21b3976e528b6a/w_Screenshot-2026-01-22-at-13.03.43.jpg" /><img width="2500" height="1406" width_o="2500" height_o="1406" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9f0850ca58344fd5e50ff2f87eeb49e2451958334082aae9b906c6622f850e42/w_Screenshot-2026-01-22-at-13.06.55.jpg" data-mid="243967549" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9f0850ca58344fd5e50ff2f87eeb49e2451958334082aae9b906c6622f850e42/w_Screenshot-2026-01-22-at-13.06.55.jpg" /><img width="2500" height="1406" width_o="2500" height_o="1406" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d483dbca707a9f88162513396b69b6ffca1d89453a54222ee87636b2bdd9c247/w_Screenshot-2026-01-22-at-13.08.02.jpg" data-mid="243967551" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d483dbca707a9f88162513396b69b6ffca1d89453a54222ee87636b2bdd9c247/w_Screenshot-2026-01-22-at-13.08.02.jpg" /><img width="2500" height="1406" width_o="2500" height_o="1406" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eb7e083ea1cd68d09c479da1d44b34f99dde92c89f6b1d86dc35d5f782dfa465/w_Screenshot-2026-01-22-at-13.09.06.jpg" data-mid="243967552" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/eb7e083ea1cd68d09c479da1d44b34f99dde92c89f6b1d86dc35d5f782dfa465/w_Screenshot-2026-01-22-at-13.09.06.jpg" /><img width="2500" height="1406" width_o="2500" height_o="1406" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6afbec73cdb133697f7db71ecbdc1048e8817001bb35d1a20bce3a138231e5c9/w_Screenshot-2026-01-22-at-13.09.26.jpg" data-mid="243967553" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6afbec73cdb133697f7db71ecbdc1048e8817001bb35d1a20bce3a138231e5c9/w_Screenshot-2026-01-22-at-13.09.26.jpg" /> was presented at : 2025 Ebensperger am Fichtebunker, Berlin, DESeptember—October 2025 &lt;– SHOW GONE ONLY THE END OF THE WORLD –&gt; https://matijaferlin.com/Jazzino Tue, 20 Jan 2026 16:53:41 +0000 matija ferlin https://matijaferlin.com/Jazzino Jazzino&nbsp;2 0 2 3 <img width="2560" height="1707" width_o="2560" height_o="1707" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/990daa238cb40541b240a1ec7eff400947ee1f75fa4cf343425754a196c26151/IMG_2055-scaled.jpg" data-mid="243639880" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/990daa238cb40541b240a1ec7eff400947ee1f75fa4cf343425754a196c26151/IMG_2055-scaled.jpg" /> JAZZINO . Concept Matija Ferlin . Music arranged by Carlos Andrés Fagin . Band members Srđan Kuzmanović (double bass) . Marco Quarantotto (drums) . Carlos Andrés Fagin (piano) . Sonja Domitrović (saxophones) . Branko Šterpin (trumper) . Gabrijela Galant Jelinić (vocals) . Costume and set design Matija Ferlin . Light design Dario Družeta . Sound design, sound engineers Bruno Legović, Vedran Đukić . Production&nbsp;Istrian National Theatre Pula &nbsp; PHOTOS BY MANUEL ANGELINI <img width="2560" height="1707" width_o="2560" height_o="1707" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f8035eee50f2e7f8654d8cbde8f6f49fb5e788ad157a87cdfd6e417f31a55af5/IMG_2086-scaled.jpg" data-mid="243639885" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f8035eee50f2e7f8654d8cbde8f6f49fb5e788ad157a87cdfd6e417f31a55af5/IMG_2086-scaled.jpg" /><img width="2560" height="1707" width_o="2560" height_o="1707" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/686534e766a5dcd863247b380fd0bf4e3df7f8a927668dbcfa0a8fc1e7dcd539/IMG_2085-scaled.jpg" data-mid="243639884" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/686534e766a5dcd863247b380fd0bf4e3df7f8a927668dbcfa0a8fc1e7dcd539/IMG_2085-scaled.jpg" /><img width="2560" height="1707" width_o="2560" height_o="1707" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7011af960444ffec3791fcfa71e637d718fb93cb7f57fb636dbab153d5ba6a73/IMG_2064-scaled.jpg" data-mid="243639882" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7011af960444ffec3791fcfa71e637d718fb93cb7f57fb636dbab153d5ba6a73/IMG_2064-scaled.jpg" /><img width="2560" height="1707" width_o="2560" height_o="1707" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4ef57009ceace53bd5823c1b41d2750121d3229f8f1499413facf7fe913e89a4/IMG_2078-scaled.jpg" data-mid="243639916" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4ef57009ceace53bd5823c1b41d2750121d3229f8f1499413facf7fe913e89a4/IMG_2078-scaled.jpg" /> <img width="2560" height="1707" width_o="2560" height_o="1707" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c80c36a83416844d9527b9b0c701de811e0517578e8eb48aa0695674835351a6/IMG_2089-scaled.jpg" data-mid="243639886" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c80c36a83416844d9527b9b0c701de811e0517578e8eb48aa0695674835351a6/IMG_2089-scaled.jpg" /> was presented at : 2025 Kliker festival, National Theatre of Croatia in Varaždin, HRMay 2025KD Vatroslav Lisinski, Zagreb, HRMay 2025Monte Librić, Pula, HRMay 2025Istrian National Theatre, Pula, HRApril—May 2025 2024 Istrian National Theatre, Pula, HROctober 202464. Međunarodni dječji festival, Šibenik, HRJuly 2024POU Buzet, Buzet, HRMarch 2024 2023 Istrian National Theatre, Pula, HRDecember 2024Istrian National Theatre, Pula, HROctober 2024 &lt;– ONLY THE END OF THE WORLD JON FOSSE: MOTHER AND CHILD&nbsp;–&gt; https://matijaferlin.com/Jon-Fosse-Mother-and-Child Tue, 20 Jan 2026 13:15:29 +0000 matija ferlin https://matijaferlin.com/Jon-Fosse-Mother-and-Child Jon Fosse: Mother and Child&nbsp;2 0 2 3 <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/923735dac05b1f7fba64ae89fbc553384707e370eda94f8cc365fc7364f0e326/w_majka-i-dijete20.jpg" data-mid="243638269" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/923735dac05b1f7fba64ae89fbc553384707e370eda94f8cc365fc7364f0e326/w_majka-i-dijete20.jpg" /> JON FOSSE: MOTHER AND CHILD . Author Jon Fosse . Director, visual concept Matija Ferlin . Translation Dubravko Torjanac . Dramaturgy Vedrana Klepica . Music, sound design Luka Prinčič . Light design Elvis Butković . Performed by Jadranka Đokić . Ugo Korani . Production Istrian National Theatre Pula &nbsp;Jon Fosse’s Mother and Child (Mor og barn, 1996), one of his many short, one-act plays, may also be the result of a split, as well as a negotiation with the logocentric nature of European drama and theatre, and especially of the Nordic type. The proxemic potential of the character’s sons in this play is almost erased. He stands at the door, motionless, in no way “theatrical” or demonstrative – almost cut off from the reality of the theatrical act. The mother therefore labels him “unspeakable” on several occasions, although her mise-en-scene pressures and constant questions, in their powerful rhetoric, hardly demand an answer. She is his physical opposite and constantly moves through the space, with a practiced “administrative charm”, thus abolishing his dynamics. She babbles, mostly at the beginning, about home and her powerful job in the civil service, about the state of the country, about what she thinks of other women, about feminism, while beneath the shy social seduction of rhetoric, she is almost proud of her misogyny, despite her claims to support feminism. It seems to me that the Norwegian playwright has written a marvelous exercise in understatement, a poetic and narrative drama of subtexts or gaps, which the son, the child, should fill in order to re-establish his identity. They are strangers brought together by the accident of the fact of birth, or the process of birth, the positivism of biology, several decades ago - because of which the mother is now struggling in the torments of memory, and the son is trying to find some more clear identity framework, besides the fact that he is a child; not a son, but a child. The end of the play reveals to the reader that the mother's favourite dramatic story is Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie (1944), a piece quite familiar to Ferlin’s choreographic oeuvre. The staging and visual idea of Matija Ferlin almost follows Fosse's dramaturgy of repetition. After all, this is precisely one of the characteristics of Ferlin's choreographic and performance mise-en-scène. The stage minimalism resembles many of his earlier performances, with a sloping wooden platform in the centre of the "empty" stage, displaced and decentred, along with a few unpolished, or rather roughly polished, chairs and a table. Ferlin's minimalism opens with a light counterpoint, where exactly what is invisible as the audience enters the auditorium - although passing close to the stage - suddenly becomes visible. Such stage minimalism not only contributes to the isolation of the characters, as is usually the case in a psychological duodrama, but also emphasizes the isolation of each of the two characters present - almost in the form of a monodramatic break, a rupture, in the sense of “although I am speaking to you, I am speaking to myself”. It is interesting that the relationships in the performance, which is a specific feature of Ferlin's reading of the play, are built through mise-en-scène, i.e., through constant penetrations into the off-stage space, through two exits on the stage - accessible mainly to the mother - as well as through her presence. This does not mean that the son never leaves the stage, although this is mostly the case, but rather indicates how the director's instruction has become a metonymy of the relationship at the conceptual level of the play, between the mother and son, or their constant processes of dispossessing and authorizing space. The closed nature of the performance is achieved in a similar way to most of his projects from the Staging a Play cycle, namely through constant manipulations with the viewer's perspective, but also the relationship between various settings, their “tuning”, and the text of the play itself, but this time completely spoken. And the language? In the original, this language is New, quite administrative, with a low frequency of interruptions, and almost irritatingly burdened with soliloquy, to the detriment of dialogue. The actors' speech resonating in “ear-mics”, which amplifies and doubles the voice, sometimes emphasizing a physical dimension of the voice, sometimes uncontrolled and spontaneous inhalation, exhalation, prolonging the vowels, almost materializes the linguistic nature of this play, which is another frequent obsession of Ferlin. 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Exhibition by Matija Ferlin . Mauricio Ferlin . Curated by Ivan Marušić Klif . Igor Ružić . Executive production by Marko Golub . Maša Milovac . Exhibition design by&nbsp;Mauricio Ferlin . Catalogue edit by&nbsp;Marko Golub . Props by&nbsp;Mauricio Ferlin . Matija Ferlin . Desanka Janković . Visual communications design by&nbsp;Tina Ivezić . Video editing and multimedia by Ivan Marušić Klif .&nbsp; Technical support by&nbsp;Branislav Štivić . Carpentry by&nbsp;Orih . Supported by&nbsp;Croatian Designers Association . Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia . 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Zagrebački salon, Lauba, Zagreb, HRJanuary 2024 2023 Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, Prague, CH June 2023 &lt;– JON FOSSE: MOTHER AND CHILD CANTI DI PRIGIONIA –&gt;