Balkan Inventory

In response to the unimaginable horrors of recent wars in the former Yugoslavia, Italian experimental artists Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi, who assemble movies from found footage, sought out non-professional film shot in the Balkans before the Nazi invasion. Their eerie, narrative-free, silently political motion picture features ghostly reels of smiling villagers, innocent children and German soldiers frolicking in verdant meadows and in glistening oceans as if on holiday.

Upphovsland: Italien