Buried Land
Buried Land, is a feature film that combines fictional drama with reflexive documentary to enter the world of 'belief archaeology'. In 2006 CNN announced to the world the discovery of the largest and potentially oldest pyramid in the world. This was not in Egypt but Visoko, in central Bosnia. The film probes the town's people for their versions of events and creates a visual environment where it is not certain where reality ends and fantastical 'buried lands' begin. The standard fact-finding format of TV news has failed to capture this faith-based narrative. The real story has yet to be told, not of the pyramids, but of Visoko, an ordinary town reinventing itself around an extraordinary set of events. Buried Land is an examination of power and survival through belief, of how truth has many sides, and of how Visoko, rising from the ashes of a traumatic past, reflects changing attitudes and strategies in the post-war Balkan region. Currently in post-production.
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