n a series of interviews with Kosovo-Albanians Collins examines the connection between language and identity in the former Yugoslavia. The protagonists reconstruct in their own words the events through which the Serbian language became unspeakable for them. Their faltering accounts testify to the impossibility of comprehending in language a traumatic history, of retrospectively imbuing the latter with coherence.
ZASTO NE GOVORIM SRPSKI (NA SRPSKOM) / WARUM ICH KEIN SERBISCH SPRECHE (AUF SERBISCH)
KOS, GBR 2008 / 35 min
Director: Phil Collins
Rights Holder: Shadylaneproductions - Great Britain
n a series of interviews with Kosovo-Albanians Collins examines the connection between language and identity in the former Yugoslavia. The protagonists reconstruct in their own words the events through which the Serbian language became unspeakable for them. Their faltering accounts testify to the impossibility of comprehending in language a traumatic history, of retrospectively imbuing the latter with coherence.
Rights Holder: Shadylaneproductions - Great Britain
