Selma Doborac
Selma Doborac, born 1982 in Bosnia and Herzegovina, lives in Vienna and works in the area of experimental and essayistic film, photography, installation and conceptual art. From 2002 to 2007 studies and graduation at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Department for Mixed Media Stratagies (Bernhard Leitner). From 2008 to 2012 studies and graduation at Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Department for Film and Art (Harun Farocki). From 2008 studies at Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Department for Cultural Studies, Faculty for Theory, Practice and Communication of Contemporary Arts (Diedrich Diederichsen). Numerous festival participations, solo and group exhibitions.
Films
- It was a day just like any other in spring or summer / Es war ein Tag wie jeder andere im Frühling oder Sommer17'
A car journey through a landscape, villages, an industrial area. We are looking straight ahead, only occasionally to the side. All is silent. Here language exists only in the form of a literary text crawling across the windscreen. In three episodes a narrator considers his own experiences and those of his family during the bombardments in the Bosnian War. He tries to find connections, to make logical sense of them. But the journey into the past opens up a chasm between the images of the present and the text about what happened in 1992. The lack of soundtrack, the dead silence, takes possession of the images. From time to time the very words cast doubt the communicability of the experience, contradict themselves. The destination is not a specific place (of remembrance).
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