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Director: Susan Muska and Greta Olafsdottir
Cast: Pamela Gordon, Diane Gaidry, Lyn Vaus, Alan
Gelfant
Country: U.S.
Year: 2002
Running Time: 85 min
Format: Beta SP
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a war is over, how do survivors move on, not from the disputed
political issues, but from the personal horrors? This question
has always been important, but it has obvious relevance today.
The war in Kosovo, driven by longstanding ethnic hatred, was
a particularly horrible and personal war, and the women of
Kosovo bore the brunt of it.
Susan Muska and Greta Olafsdottir have once again turned
their camera and their interview skills on a difficult subject
(their first film, The Brandon Teena Story, played at the
Maryland Film Festival 1999, and inspired the feature Boys
Don't Cry). Once again, they have created a film that is as
compelling as it is informative. Over several years, Greta
and Susan traveled to Kosovo and looked into the faces of
war. The result is humbling because this film is so much more
specific and human than the news accounts. What Muska and
Olafsdottir found, and have brought to audiences, are unbelievable
stories of inhumanity, and breathtaking examples of the human
spirit.
The film recently premiered at The Museum of Modern Art in
a series commemorating the fifteenth anniversary of the Rockefeller
Foundation Media Arts Fellowships. This is the second public
screening for the film
--Jed Dietz
Presented By: Susan Muska and Greta Olafsdottir
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