Mira Klug

Johannes Gierlinger and Mira Klug approach the border region between Slovakia and Austria with precisely assembled images that make repressed history visible. Archive photos, landscape shots, and suddenly appearing human poses condense to that urgent certainty that it’s not possible to cast off the past.

A journey in search of traces through the profound processes of transformation of Albanian history. In the archives, in forgotten places and in the memories of different generations, fractures and continuities emerge, left by the transition from communist dictatorship to capitalist democracy. Adopting an essayistic-poetic approach, the film explores the images of the regime and the regimes of images, revealing how much the history of Albania is inscribed in the fabric of its present.