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Šejla Kamerić
Glück, 2010

HD video, colour, sound, 5.1 sound, 16mm transferred to HD
18:50 min.
Edition of 5 + 2 AP

Showing the pursuit of happiness as a way of survival, this film is a potential remembrance in which boundaries between the past, present and the future tend to be erased. Berlin plays a … Read More

Showing the pursuit of happiness as a way of survival, this film is a potential remembrance in which boundaries between the past, present and the future tend to be erased. Berlin plays a significant role in the film, epitomizing a place in which suffering is part of the past, but is also a potential future. The film is inspired by the quotes from the book Nebeski Zarucnici (The Fiancés of Heaven) by Mirko Kovač.
Lev Tolstoy once wrote in a letter to B. N. Chicherin:
“Happiness is when you feel that what once you thought of as oppressive has now become the only meaning of life.”

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Šejla Kamerić - GLÜCK, 2010
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Šejla Kamerić - GLÜCK, 2010
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Šejla Kamerić - GLÜCK, 2010
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Šejla Kamerić - Glueck
Installation view
at Villa Elisabeth
Berlin, 2010
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