Watch Journal No. 1 - An Artist's Impression (2007) Online

In 1947, two years after the end of the Second World War, Film Journal No. 1 was released in Sarajevo. Fifty years later, after the collapse of the Communist bloc, this newsreel was lost in the confusion of the fighting in Yugoslavia. In Journal No. 1 Hito Steyerl attempts to find out how the footage got lost and what was on this document from the Sutjeska studio. In the simultaneous projection of Journal No. 1 the ‘unattainability of an historical zero hour of the national identity’ takes concrete form: The lost newsreel reports on a literacy campaign as well as Muslim women confidently removing their headscarves. We listen however to eyewitnesses trying to recapture the lost content and we see the artist Arman Kulasic making a number of drawings that resemble the story-boards for the lost film. What appears to be moments of great change remain limited by subjective and uncertain memory. The film was premiered at documenta 12. Read More

Watch Journal No. 1 - An Artist's Impression online. Featuring , Journal No. 1 - An Artist's Impression is classified as Documentary genre movie with an average rating across the web of 0. It is available for streaming online in the UK on 1 services such as DocAlliance Films. The movie was filmed in Austria and was released on 2007. Journal No. 1 - An Artist's Impression was directed by Hito Steyerl. Read Less