Psychonauts / Psihonauti / Psihonavti

 

dir. Niko Radas (Croatian Association of Digital Artists)
2025, Croatia, 8'

Leaving their human hosts, mental disorders take on anthropomorphic forms and find new refuges.

Duševne motnje zapustijo svoje človeške gostitelje, privzamejo antropomorfne oblike in si poiščejo nova zatočišča.

Language: English
Recommended for children under 14 year old: No
Technique: Puppet animation


Team

Script: Niko Radas
Animation: Niko Radas, Pavao Stanojević
Music: Niko Radas
Voices, set designers, concept authors: Patients of the University Psychiatry Hospital Vrapče

 

Niko Radas

was born in Zagreb in 1980. After finishing the High School of Applied Arts and Design, he graduated from the Sculpture Department of the Zagreb Academy of Fine Arts. Since 2004, he has been working at the University Psychiatric Hospital Vrapče, facilitating art as a therapy programmes. Alongside with a variety of classical art techniques that he uses in his work, Niko initiated a music and a film workshop, in which he writes scrips, designs scenography for animated films and documentaries, which he then produces together with patients.

 
Natalija Bračko