[Hajdini Footage of Kosovo July-Sept. 1998]

Call Number
392-2-13:10/1

General information

Call No.:
392-2-13:10/1
Part of series
HU OSA 392-2-13 Video Recordings of WITNESS: WITNESS Partners' Raw Footage: WITNESS Kosovo Project
Located at
DVD-ROM #10 / No. 1
Digital ver. identifier
HU OSA 392-2-13_010
Date of production
1998-07
Date
1998
Level
Item
Primary Type
Moving image
Language
Albanian
Duration
58 min.
Notes
[Footage: ; Partners: ]

Content

Form/Genre
Raw material
Contents Summary
Partner Zahn Hajdini traveled to Kosovo in 1998 to film the realities of refugee life following the NATO bombings and massacres by Serbian forces. In the first tape, we see many buildings and homes that have been destroyed and burned down. People of Kosovo are left with nowhere to go many of them flee to fields and valleys. For a majority of the video we see hundreds of men, women and children simply trying to survive with what they have left.

Footage includes: sound of gunshot, pan landscape with smoke, burning shack, tractors transporting people (refugees?), more LS landscape with smoke from artillery, more footage of people in tractors, including baby in wooden cradle, more shots buildings on fire. [date stamp 8/30/98] corpses of 8 men lined up in a room (next to stacks of logs), each has small card on body, probably to ID / outside, burned out car, smoke in background; crude wooden stakes in ground, marking makeshift graves; refugees in a field with makeshift tents, around fires, etc / [9/22/98 date stamp] shots of army vehicles and tanks moving (shot through window) / army helicopter. planes, in air / good shots refugees in tractor, outside train tunnel, inside train tunnel - mothers with kids, elderly / LS woman with one leg and crutch walking across field / intvw with refugee / shots of destroyed buildings / footage includes unidentified edited piece or pieces with VO and Music, some of which includes foregoing footage.

Context

Associated Names
Hajdini, Zahn (Copyright holder)
WITNESS (Copyright holder)