Journey to YU: In the Footsteps of Rebecca West (2015)

In her photographic pilgrimage, Dragana Jurisic brings Rebcca West's 1941 masterpiece into the present day, for an encounter with the medium of photography - through her rolliflex camera as she follows West's footsteps through Yugoslavia, her former homeland, from which she was displaced during the 1990s war. Their photo-documentary highlights this unique and original road-trip where two women from different eras [Jurisic and Anglo-Irish writer Rebecca West], intersect in an intellectual, emotional, and physical journey through the Balkans. Conveying the devastating impact of war on ordinary people, this moving documentary which coincides with the 20th anniversary of the tragic massacre at Srebenica, and the subsequent Dayton Agreement, (1995), features Olwen Fouere as Rebecca West, Zlata Filipovic (author, "Zlata's Diary"), Dijana Milosevic (Founder, DAH Theatre, Belgrade), Colin Graham (Writer, Critic, and Lecturer in English at NUIM), photographer Dragana Jurisic, Pat Laffan, and is narrated by Deirdre Mulrooney. Image editor is Aoife Carey, and sound engineer is John Davis.