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Strange Vision of Seeing Things
by Ryan Ferko
2016, 4’16’
Presented at VISIO. European Identities. New Geographies in Artists’ Film and Video (2018)
Courtesy the artist
The film takes place in a post-Yugoslav Serbia, in the empty lobby of a dismissed industrial conglomerate’s headquarter in Belgrade. 1999 NATO bombings are narrated through the memories of a man and the visit of a mother and her young son to the ruins left by that military campaign. During the narration of the film high definition images become confuse in order to reveal the unclear flow of the history.
Ryan Ferko is an artist working predominantly in film and video. He is an Irish citizen, born in Canada to a family that left Yugoslavia. His work is rooted in a searching for identity. And is concerned with landscapes as unstable sources of narration. Often working in highly politicized and complex social conditions, his work turns to myth and story telling to find alternative narrations. His short film Strange Vision of Seeing Things had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival and shown at the New York Film Festival, Ann Arbor. He has participated in residencies at Tabakalera Centre for International Culture (San Sebastian), Taipei Artist Village, Sound Development City (Belgrade/Athens), ZKU Berlin, and Banff Centre.