The first screening in our series of Artist Film Forums includes three films. Phil Collins’ 2008 film Why I don’t speak Serbian (in Serbian) explores the issue, in Kosovo, that people of a certain age would have spoken Serbo-Croat regularly but now the official language is no longer used by the Albanian majority. Contributors to the film include the former Prime Minister Bujar Bukoshi and a former language teacher and her husband who discuss the murder of their son during a round-up by Serb militia.
In November (2004), Hito Steyerl uses martial arts and exploitation conventions to tell the story of her best friend Andrea Wolf, who was killed in 1998, fighting alongside the PKK in the Kurdish regions of northern Iraq and Turkey and became an ‘immortal revolutionary’ icon for the cause.
Kristina Leko’s Zagreb Milkmaids on Your Right Hand Side (2002) investigates the disappearance of the Zagreb milkmaids and their traditional trade.