MSUM: ŠEJLA KAMERIĆ, 1395 DAYS WITHOUT RED

17. 4. - 28. 10. 2012

Selected film and video works by Šejla Kamerić films will be screened on Tuesdays and Sundays at 5.30 p.m.

The selection includes:

WHAT DO I KNOW, 2007
HD video, 15'

SUNSET, 2008
video animation, 1'25''

GLÜCK, 2010
16mm film transferred to HD, 18'

1395 DAYS WITHOUT RED was done in collaboration with Anri Sala and Ari Benjamin Meyers. Commissioned by ArtAngel, co-produced by ArtAngel, London and SCCA/Pr.ba, Sarajevo. Starring Maribel Verdú and Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchestra.

SYNOPSIS
A woman makes her way through an empty city. At every crossing she stops, looks and listens. Should she wait or should she run? Should she wait for others or take the risk on her own?
The city is Sarajevo, and the route the woman takes became known as Sniper Alley during the siege of the city endured by its citizens for 1395 days between 1992 and 1996. The woman, played by Spanish actress Maribel Verdu, is reliving the experience of the trauma of the siege. It is her individual journey in the collective memory of the city.
1395 Days without Red draws on the experience of the siege of Sarajevo between 1992 and 1996 and the trauma of the besieged citizens as they made their way through the city. The title refers to the fact that, during the siege, the Sarajevans were advised not to wear bright colours that might alert the snipers in the hills above to their movements.
Throughout the siege, the Sarajevo Symphony Orchestra continued to play. In the film 1395 Days Without Red the orchestra rehearses Tchaikovsky's 6th symphony, the Pathetique. The musicians stop and start, repeating different sections of the symphony, just as the woman stops and starts in the city. Hearing the music in her head, she finds the courage to carry on.

ŠEJLA KAMERIĆ
Šejla Kamerić was born in 1976 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. She uses mainly photography, video and film as media juxtaposing an explicit social context with intimate perspectives. Her approach to art also includes public interventions, diverse types of actions and site-specific installations. Her works have been exhibited throughout Europe, in the USA and in Japan, and have been included in some prestigious European collections such as Muse d'Art Moderne de la ville de Paris; collection of The Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Rotterdam and Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb. She won the National Gallery of Arts, Tirana, Albania ONUFRI award for 2004, Special award at (46th) October Salon, Belgrade in 2005 and The ECF Routes Princess Margriet Award for Cultural Diversity in 2011. Šejla received DAAD- Berlin, Artist in Residency Fellowship for 2007. Her first short film What do I Know, premiered in Corto Cortissimo section of (64th) Venice International Film Festival and circulated over 40 film festivals winning Golden Pram for the Best Short Film awards at (5th) Zagreb Film Festival and (15th) Adana Film Festival. 'Glück', a 16mm short film premiered at the Sarajevo Film Festival and screened in the short feature competition of 2010 Zagreb Film Festival where it got special mention of the jury. Her film 1395 Days without Red premiered at 2011 Manchester International Festival. She lives in Berlin and in Sarajevo

CAST AND CREW
1395 DAYS WITHOUT RED
IN COLLABORATION WITH ANRI SALA AND ARI BENJAMIN MEYERS
WITH MARIBEL VERDÚ AND SARAJEVO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
COSTUME DESIGNERS SANJA DŽEBA, EMINA KUJUNDŽIĆ
SOUND DESIGNERS SRĐAN KURPJEL, BURAK TOPALAKCI
MUSIC BY ARI BENJAMIN MEYERS
EDITED BY PENDA HOUZANGBE
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY PATRICK GHIRINGHELLI
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER JAMES LINGWOOD
PRODUCED BY AMRA BAKŠIĆ ČAMO, JOVAN MARJANOVIĆ
DIRECTED BY ŠEJLA KAMERIĆ

1395 Days without Red is commissioned by Artangel with Manchester International Festival, Whitworth Art Gallery (Manchester), Fundació Museu D'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (Rotterdam), enabled by Han Nefkens, H+F patronage, Festival d?Automne (Paris), Arts Council England, European Cultural Foundation, Fondacija za kinematografiju (Sarajevo), Marian Goodman Gallery (New York), Hauser & Wirth (London & Zurich).

Co-produced by Artangel, London and SCCA/pro.ba, Sarajevo.

1395 Days without Red was conceived, developed and filmed as a collaborative film project by Šejla Kamerić and Anri Sala. The project has given life to two separate films.

2011, Artangel, Šejla Kamerić, Anri Sala, SCCA/pro.ba. All Rights Reserved.