A Bosnian Chronicle

A Bosnian Chronicle presents life in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina through a series of journeys across the divided country, revealing the richness and complexity of a place that has brought so much tragedy to our time and known so little peace. As in the work of Ivo Andric and his masterwork, Bosnian Chronicle, the film exposes through archive footage and original filming the immense beauty of the dramatic landscape with its eerie hilltop fortresses, alongside and in contrast to the corrupting and divisive machinations of those in power. In so doing, notions of time, the past, history, are shown to be enfolded within the present it created as any attempts to historicise the war in Bosnia, to consider it the past, have proved difficult whilst a time of continuing unease persists. The film includes an original soundtrack made by Bosnian musicians, which loops both old and new oral history of the place over the poetic and sometimes tragic images.