Two-screen film and a book
(two 20’ segments looped)
Denis Hyka and Violana Murataj
Finding Grandma’s Garden is a collaborative work, by Denis Hyka who left Tirana, and Violana Murataj who stayed in the city. Performing a piece of detective work both on the city of Tirana and Hyka’s emotions, the project explores the archaeology of memory and the social and psychological impact of the movement of people. The film juxtaposes Murataj’s journey to locate Hyka’s grandmother’s garden with a landscape of Hyka’s emotions revealed through a fixed frame close-up on his face as he watches Murataj’s film (Hyka’s grandmother passed away in 2006). The book features Hyka’s drawings and Murataj’s photographs, accompanied by personal stories in English and Albanian.
Filmed by Violana Murataj & Breda Beban
Edited by Maverick Litchfield Kelly
Book published by Index on Censorship on behalf of imagine art after
ISBN 978-0-954-76465-4 [to order the book on Amazon, click here]
