Kumjana Novakova
Kumjana Novakova
archival footage
Jelena Maksimović
Vladimir Živković
Sofia Tocar
Štěpánská 611/14
Prague, Prague 11100
Czech Republic
[email protected]
2023
North Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina
63 min
Color
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, The Silence of Reason acts as a memory itself: elusive, fluid, it rejects framing, moving in all directions, 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.
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