Journal No. 1 - An Artist's Impression
- Documentary
Overview
In 1947, two years after the end of the Second World War, Film Journal No. 1 was released in Sarajevo. Fifty years later, after the collapse of the Communist bloc, this newsreel was lost in the confusion of the fighting in Yugoslavia. In Journal No. 1 Hito Steyerl attempts to find out how the footage got lost and what was on this document from the Sutjeska studio. In the simultaneous projection of Journal No. 1 the ‘unattainability of an historical zero hour of the national identity’ takes concrete form: The lost newsreel reports on a literacy campaign as well as Muslim women confidently removing their headscarves. We listen however to eyewitnesses trying to recapture the lost content and we see the artist Arman Kulasic making a number of drawings that resemble the story-boards for the lost film. What appears to be moments of great change remain limited by subjective and uncertain memory. The film was premiered at documenta 12.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- June 1, 2007
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- Bosnian
- Countries
- Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany
- Director
- Hito Steyerl
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt4706862