Anocha Suwichakornpong

The first time I met Sejla was on a sunny day in Copenhagen. I found out that she was from Bosnia, and had remained in Sarajevo throughout the 4 year siege. In the course of one week, we got to know each other through our exchanges of stories. Both of us offer to one another glimpses into our private lives, the spaces in which our memories and dreams are intertwined.

In the year that followed, we began to film and collect these ‘fragments’ – some of them came from our imagination, and some from our memories. The fragments were created in the places where we had lived and travelled, sometimes together, in the course of one year; Hong Kong, Bangkok, Amnat Charoen, Tokyo, Berlin, London, and Sarajevo.

It is in these fragments of our lives, memories, and imaginations, that two women from two different countries, of the same age, breathe. But I believe that the viewer will find resonance in these fragments and can breathe a new life into the narrative – their narrative.

 

Sejla Kameric

This film is entirely made of such fragments. It emulates the structure of our memories as the fragments don’t appear to be connected at the first sight, but they offer the viewer to connect them to their own memories and create a new narrative.