Prizemljeni svemir

Award-winning poet Gordana Benic's poetic vision of Diocletian's Palace is portrayed in the film through a combination of the lunar landscape of the island of Pag, the cosmic archaeology of the city of Split, and the futuristic vision of Nikola Tesla. Benic's poetic work is devoted in its entirety to the city of Split, and in the film the Palace has the dimension of a new reality that the locals have not seen. The title of the film "Grounded Cosmos" is an oxymoron, a paradox, as also is the prose poetry of Gordana Benic. Having received the "Goran's Wreath" award in 2014 for her entire poetic oeuvre, this year, for her collection "Equator of the Heavens", she has won the literature prize of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Her poetry has been translated into a dozen foreign languages, and her books into German and French. Her four books, each on an imaginary poetic palace, were written on the island of Pag, as it is her way to approach the Palace by distancing herself from it. It was the infinitude within us, that cosmic component within the Palace, which Gordana Benic felt whilst still a child in her day-to-day comings and goings past the Sphinx. The power of the visuality of her poetry, also in the film, brings the viewer sensations both sensory and spiritual. The film is intended for an audience that has retained the power to feel the artistic energy that is driven by an impulse that comes from dimensions that are invisible to the eye, and the consequence is lift-off.