Films by Clarissa Thieme

Germany, Austria, Bosnia-Herzegovina 2020, 70 min
by Clarissa Thieme

„Was bleibt I Šta ostaje I What remains / Re-visited" is a re-encounter with the places and landscapes that already played the leading role in Thieme's „Was bleibt I Šta ostaje I What remains" (Berlinale 2010): Sites of War Crimes in the 1990s in Bosnia Herzegovina. Ten years later, Thieme returns to them – with those past recordings in tow. „Was bleibt I Šta ostaje I What remains / Re-visited" is an experimental filmic setup that invites interactions from locals without forcing them. The result

2018, 13 min
by Clarissa Thieme

“Today is 11th June 1993. The war has been going on for very long. I’ve tried everything to get out, to save myself, nothing worked. The only thing left is to make this videotape that I will give to my son, he to his, and so on, until a time machine is invented and someone watching this will come and get me out of this."A group of young people imagines 1993 with a lot of black humor the escape from the besieged city of Sarajevo with a time machine. Thieme activates the appeal of the past with th

Bosnia-Herzegovina, Germany, Austria 2012, 61 min
by Clarissa Thieme

THE PLACE WE LEFT is a film about six people all born in Sarajevo who left the city mostly due to the war. some stayed abroad some came back after years.
they talk about their experiences leaving their city settling down somewhere else or being caught in the middle. THE PLACE WE LEFT concentrates on their personal attempts to give sense to circumstances they surprisingly found themselves in when in 1992 Sarajevo a european metropolis became under siege.
blocks of talking heads are accompanie

Bosnia-Herzegovina, Austria 2010, 30 min
by Clarissa Thieme

WHAT REMAINS is about the empty spaces left behind in the wake of war and violence. The film is composed of long staticwide shots of places and landscapes in present day BosniaHerzegovina.The ordinary banality and beauty of the places shown form a contrast to the fact that atrocities were committed during the Bosnian War from 1992 until 1995 at all of these places.WHAT REMAINS is a filmic memorial beyond the ordinary limits of representation and understanding. The places in the film are present