There Far Away
2009
2-channel video
16:9, color - sound
6’ 30” (loop)

There Far Away depicts a group of elder people in a nursing home in Zagreb (Croatia) while singing the songs of their young-hood during one of their weekly singing meetings. Encountering their physical strength and memory resistance, and even proper consciousness of the very present moment, they all sing little interested in different origins, national belonging or political connotations of their repertory, especially in relation to the recently past events in that particular geographical area.

There Far Away continues in a second part, a sort of epilogue, in which the author herself speaks in front of camera, this time in her residence in London. Throughout a series of brief, fragmented facts and details that introduce the viewer to the geo-historical background of the previously viewed scene, she tries to create a deeper and emotionally more complex access for the audience to the work’s less obvious, conceived but still present context.