Synopsis
What is an archive? What can it tell us? How do we approach it and make it work for us? Journal No. 1 takes its title from the first newsreel made in Bosnia in1947, which was lost during the war in the early 1990s. Starting out from that loss and the missing archive, the film develops reflections on how collective andpersonal memories and history take shape. This is a reflection on the image through images, on how they take hold. Hito Steyerl takes us on a journey through fiction films, film archives and unusual accounts as he questions the images bound up with them all. He explores the way they have been manipulated and graduallysteers us towards the history of the last few years. Journal No. 1 uses and experiments with different levels of representation - words, drawings, film.
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