Archive: Year 2016

BALKAN DOX

It could be a Film

Možeše da bide film

Director

Kumjana Novakova

Producer

Kumjana Novakova

Cinematographer

Kaori Oda

Editor

Kumjana Novakova

Sound

Koca Kastavarac

Contact

Pravo Ljudski
Obala Kulina bana 18, 71000 Sarajevo,
Bosnia and Herzegovina
+38733265915
[email protected]

2016

Bosnia and Herzegovina

8 min

Color

A letter to a memory. /But then, /What is the lived time of a memory? /Memory preserves past. /And memory creates present. /Memories create sites. /Spaces and landscapes. /Memories can create memories. /Memories can create nowness. /Memories create the "I", remembering to remember and remembering to forget. /Memories unbody the "I".

Director

Kumjana Novakova, originally born in Macedonia, Yugoslavia, works in the field of creative documentary cinema and audiovisual arts since 2006. She is the co-founder and director of the Pravo Ljudski Film Festival in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and collaborates with several film festivals and cinema platforms. She also teaches engaged documentary cinema at the Béla Tarr's film.factory. As an author, Kumjana develops projects between cinema and contemporary art, mostly exploring the interplay between identities, memories and the collective self. Kumjana currently lives in Sarajevo.

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