Short Film Forum

CROW FUNERAL

Director: Durim Klaiqi
Producer: Durim Klaiqi
Country: Kosovo
Genre: Hybrid
Estimated runtime: 13'
Total estimated budget: 35,000 Euros
Looking for: Producer/Co-producer; Funding; Technical Collaboration; Post-Production Services; Distribution & Sales; VR/360 specialist.

Synopsis:
Crow Funeral is a hybrid experimental documentary that explores the act of observation as both process and philosophy. Built from over 100+ hours of unreleased VHS and MiniDV tapes filmed by Ahmet Grajqevci in post-war Kosovo, the film unfolds through five interlinked "dimensions": language, image, space, time, and feeling.
Rather than reconstructing history through a linear narrative, the film moves through fractured perspectives. Damaged analog recordings are paired with spectral 3D reconstructions and volumetric reenactments, where gestures: pointing, walking, hiding, become forms of remembrance. Each dimension transforms testimonies into different visual and emotional registers: a voice becomes a silhouette, a memory becomes a floating home, a feeling becomes a color.
Witnesses reappear across these dimensions, not as fixed identities, but as shifting presences shaped by trauma, silence, and survival. The film avoids dramatization, instead allowing memory to unfold with minimal intervention through slowed movement, flickering light, and layered sound.
Crow Funeral is not built from a script, but from ethical observation and technological reconstruction. It is shaped by the limits of what can be recorded, reconstructed, or remembered. Bearing witness not only to what was seen, but to what could never be fully shown.

Director's short bio:
Durim Klaiqi is a self-taught experimental film author and graphic designer from Prishtina, Kosova. Starting his creative journey in 2017 with Samsung's "Galaxy Themes" program, he later earned a BA in Integrated Design. In 2020, he expanded into video editing, merging graphic design with moving images.
His debut short sci-fi film, "reMemBer2.human", gained international acclaim at festivals like Vienna Shorts and DokuFest. He explores memory, technology, and visual culture through hybrid forms. He has participated in the StoryLab art initiative as both lecturer and attendee, and is currently developing Crow Funeral, a documentary using volumetric video technology.