Joško Marušić

(1952) graduated from the Faculty of Architecture in Zagreb. He has been active in several artistic media – comic books, caricatures, illustrations, literature, film production, tv, theory and animation criticism – but animated film remained the focus of his interest.

He was twice art director of Zagreb film, and art director of The World Festival of Animated Film. In 1999 he founded the Department of animated film at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, where he is currently teaching animation.

His animated films, including Inside and Out (1977), Perpetuo (1978), Fisheye (1980), Over There (1985), Skyscraper (1981), Home is the Best (1988), have won prestigious awards at international film festivals around the world. (www.havc.hr)