TY - JOUR AU - Riding, James AU - Wake-Walker, Jack PY - 2017/06/20 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Towards a cultural geopolitics: on the making of a documentary-poetry film about a post-conflict place JF - Fennia - International Journal of Geography JA - Fennia VL - 195 IS - 1 SE - Research Papers DO - 10.11143/fennia.60213 UR - https://fennia.journal.fi/article/view/60213 SP - 61-84 AB - <p>Made in collaboration with an independent filmmaker and two poets, the documentary-poetry film <em>Bridges &lt;Bosnia 20&gt;</em> presents life in post-conflict Bosnia-Herzegovina, and delivers a clear message: the war in Bosnia is not yet firmly located in the past. Shot through a computer screen, <em>Bridges &lt;Bosnia 20&gt;</em> forces the viewer to witness the war in Bosnia and its aftermath via-the-gaze of an unknown spectator, sitting on an Apple Mac laptop. Through this modern technological distancing, we re-present here images of war in a digital age, question how war is usually packaged and represented on television, and in turn interrogate, through poetry, how war is traditionally remembered and memorialised. In so doing, <em>Bridges &lt;Bosnia 20&gt;</em> leads us to a conclusion, in Srebrenica, in 2015: in order to invest in the possibility of a just future after conflict, it is necessary to acknowledge the unthinkable realities to which traumatic experience bears witness.</p><p>Watch the film <em>Bridges &lt;Bosnia 20&gt;</em>&nbsp;<a href="https://vimeo.com/172885927/0700a7a7c8" target="_blank">here </a>and visit the <em>Bridges &lt;Bosnia 20&gt;</em>&nbsp;<a href="https://bridgesbosnia20.com/" target="_blank">website </a>for more information</p> ER -