Film, 13 Min, English and Bosnian
(Berlinale 2018)
„Today is 11th June 1993. The war has been going on for a very long time. I've tried everything to get out, to save myself, nothing worked. The only thing left is to make this videotape that I will give to my son, he to his, and so on, until a time machine is invented and someone watching this will come and get me out of this.“
Today is 11th June 1993 was developed on the basis of intensive investigations in the Library Hamdija Kresevljakovic Video Archive in Sarajevo, a private collection of amateur videos in which the residents of Sarajevo document their lives during the siege. In this collection Thieme found a short science-fiction film in which a group of young people uses black humor to imagine fleeing the enclosed city by means of a time machine. Using simultaneous translation Thieme again formulates the call from the past to the present. How will we react to it?
(Berlinale / Forum Expanded)
In collaboration with / Nihad Kresevljakovic & the Library Hamdija Kresevljakovic Video Arhiv, Sarajevo; Performance / Grace Sungeun Kim; Camera & Color Correction / Till Beckmann; Sound Editor / Christian Obermaier; Re-recording Mixer / Jochen Jezussek; Dramaturgic Advisor / Christine A. Maier; Artistic Assistance / Ina Arnautalic; Translation / Ulvija Tanovic
Videoclip Sarajevo 1993 / Emir Jelkic, Elma Jerlagic Muhic, Fatima Jerlagic, Faruk Jerlagic, Hamdija Kresevljakovic, Nihad Kresevljakovic, Sead Kresevljakovic