Those Shocking Shaking Days

“Which guerilla liberation force would you join if you had the choice between two possible styles of liberation work?” reads the question posed at the very get-go of Selma Doborac’s film essay which proceeds over the course of the next 80 minutes to ask with unremitting intensity whether cinematic means can be used to represent the phenomenon war. Is this even possible given the Medusa head of war, perpetually sprouting yet another coiling aspect of the human abyss? Who feels addressed by this question? Who knows what a person engaged by this question imagines? The first few words of the film...

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Orig. Title
Those Shocking Shaking Days
Year
2016
Countries
Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration
88 min
Director
Selma Doborac
Category
Essay
Orig. Language
German
Subtitles
English Version
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