ARTIST

My Story

Based in Zagreb I am available for weddings and commercial work in Croatia and around the globe

My name is René Batišta, and for the most part of my career I’ve been working as a professional editor and cinematographer. Even though my work includes extensive list of editing jobs on various commercial projects, I still tend to find the greatest joy and inspiration engaging in my own personal projects which have always awarded me with the opportunity of working alongside amazing people and fascinating sceneries.

I believe in technical simplicity and am always trying to let my cinematography be driven by story and emotions. Don’t get me wrong, I am by all means a tech geek in constant search for the very latest pieces of equipment, but will always look on a technology simply as a tool and a companion on my filmmaking journey.

I adore music, I can’t imagine the world without a melody in it, and it is at the very core of everything I do. I am very grateful for all the talented musicians inspiring me to capture in imagery the emotion they are giving me through their music.

And should I even mention how much am I in love with the art of filmmaking. Motion pictures are my daily meal and constant source of inspiration from the great minds and crafts of wonderful directors, screenwriters and cinematographers.

No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.
Ingmar Bergman
You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.
Ansel Adams
Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.
Martin Scorsese
A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
Stanley Kubrick
A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
Alfred Hitchcock