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Silence of Reason

2023 1h 3m Documentary List
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Forensic video essay built as a performative research into the first international criminal tribunal case to enter convictions for rape as a form of torture and for sexual enslavement as crime against humanity. While working solely with visual archive and testimonies, The Silence of Reason acts as a memory itself: elusive, fluid, it rejects framing, moving in all directions, spatial and temporal. The singular experiences of violence and torture by women from the Foča rape camps during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina become our collective memories, surpassing time and space.

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Vadim Rizov Filmmaker Magazine At 64 minutes, the film also represents another common dilemma, padding itself out to feature length with an end credits sequence that runs just around 10 minutes... Mar 5, 2024 Full Review Savina Petkova Cineuropa With an artistic choice which mirrors the way memory itself works, Novakova uses the medium of film as a tool for collective remembering and holds nothing back. Mar 5, 2024 Full Review Read all reviews

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Synopsis Forensic video essay built as a performative research into the first international criminal tribunal case to enter convictions for rape as a form of torture and for sexual enslavement as crime against humanity. While working solely with visual archive and testimonies, The Silence of Reason acts as a memory itself: elusive, fluid, it rejects framing, moving in all directions, spatial and temporal. The singular experiences of violence and torture by women from the Foča rape camps during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina become our collective memories, surpassing time and space.
Director
Kumjana Novakova
Producer
Kumjana Novakova
Screenwriter
Kumjana Novakova
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
Bosnian
Runtime
1h 3m