BHFF 2024
Silence of Reason
Synopsis
Forensic video essay built as a performative research into the first international criminal tribunal case to enter convictions for rape as a form of torture and for sexual enslavement as crime against humanity. While working solely with visual archive and testimonies, Silence of Reason acts as a memory itself: elusive, fluid, rejecting framing, and moving in all directions, both spatial and temporal. The singular experiences of violence and torture by women from the Foča rape camps during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina become our collective memories, surpassing time and space.
Director's Biography
Kumjana Novakova, originally born in Macedonia, Yugoslavia, has worked in the field of film and arts since 2006. In 2006 she co-founded the Pravo Ljudski Film Festival in Sarajevo, and acts as its chief curator and director. She was leading the Film Department of the Museum of Contemporary Arts in Skopje as a Film Curator for 3 years.
She is currently an associated professor at the Non-fiction department of ESCAC, Barcelona, Spain, and has formerly taught at the Béla Tarr's film.factory in Sarajevo.
As an author, her research lays between cinema and contemporary video art, often exploring how moving images address identities, memories and the collective self. Kumjana currently lives between Sarajevo and Skopje, North Macedonia.
SVA Theatre
Presentation 5
Screening Time:
Saturday, April 27, 2024
2:00 PM
Country of Production: North Macedonia Country of Co-Production: Bosnia and Herzegovina Cast & Credits
Director: Kumjana Novakova Director of Photography: Archive Editor: Jelena Maksimovic
Text Selection and Editing: Kumjana Novakova Sound: Vladimir Zivkovic
Graphic Design: Elena Dinovska Zarapchiev VFX: Nuvit Bingol
Production Design: Kumjana Novakova Producer: Kumjana Novakova Production: Medea Co-production: Pravo Ljudski
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