1395 Days without Red
Šejla Kamerić & Anri Sala in collaboration with Ari Benjamin Meyers

29 September - 23 October 2011
10 - 12 Francis Street, London, SW1P 1QU
Free Admission

A woman makes her way through an empty city. At every crossing she stops. Should she wait or should she run? Should she wait or take the risk on her own? The city is Sarajevo, and the route the woman takes became known as Sniper Alley during the siege of the city endured by its citizens for 1395 days between 1992 and 1996.

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What was your role in 1395 Days without Red? How did it come about?

Anri and I had worked together before. Actually we first worked together here at the Manchester International Festival, in 2007, on a project called El Tempo du Postino. Then he called me around three years ago and told me about this project with Šejla Kamerić and said music played a very important part. And that's how it started.

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Nine impressions of 1395 days
Ozren Kebo
7 October 2011

"Everything in the film is stripped to its core. There is no traffic in the streets. Not even people. In their place are pedestrians, robbed of their human status, making their way through the city on foot, trying to retrieve (that is, regain) their lost status. Pedestrians are life-like, and not just a bunch of extras. The success of your survival technique in the besieged city was all about your technique of moving through that city."

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"The streets were deserted, as usually happens in the gaps of history, in the terrains vagues of time."

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