Elegija

Dragić began his career as an animator after applying for a competition organized by Zagreb Film, leveraging his background as a cartoonist and caricaturist. His animated works remain closely tied to his comic strips, both stylistically and narratively, with some directly adapted from them. His debut film, *Elegy*, for instance, is based on his comic *Nostalgia*, as he discusses in an interview with Bosnian-Swedish theorist and animator Midhat Ajanović included in the book *Nedeljko Dragić: The Man and the Line* (2014). *Elegy* tells the story of a prisoner who longs for a flower he glimpses through the bars of his cell. The film's static animation style reflects his origins in comics.