The Last Balkan Cowboy
In search of cult hero Hari Džekson, a film director of Westerns from Yugoslavia before the war, artist and photographer Dragana Jurisic retraces his mythical story, and decides to reenact one of his films using the local population as actors from both sides of the ethnic divide. Returning to the home which she fled, she follows a ghost through a country that has long since disappeared.
This is a personal film; an attempt to deal with the conflicting war memories photographer director Jurisic has about her lost country. It is an attempt to engage with a healing process through the salvage and creation of film and images. As in all of her work, Jurisic is investigating complex themes of exile, memory, and national identity.
This is a personal film; an attempt to deal with the conflicting war memories photographer director Jurisic has about her lost country. It is an attempt to engage with a healing process through the salvage and creation of film and images. As in all of her work, Jurisic is investigating complex themes of exile, memory, and national identity.