Living Among the Dead
25 minutes
2025

A video essay by a young American filmmaker who goes to the former Yugoslavia in search of the homeland her family never spoke about. A personal and political investigation on memory, migration, and cultural erasure, the film tells the story of a person and a country haunted by the past. The story is told in the form of a letter to the filmmaker’s late grandfather and utilizes family archives, official archives of Yugoslavia, and encounters with the land and the people her family left behind. 

This film was made as a thesis project for the Ethnographic Documentary program at University College London

Festivals
Balkan New Film Festival - DOC:SHORT selection Stockholm 
Ethnographic Film Festival Skopje, Macedonia
VIzAntrop FIlm Festival Belgrade, Serbia

Awards
Best Visualisation - Balkan New Film Festival