This Woman is Called Jasna 01

Episode 1 of an ongoing project dealing with the voice and thoughts of Jasna, a semi-fictional administrator at the Hague War Crimes Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. The project uses a montage of text and images to weave a tentative narrative between official and personal histories, questioning the processes of visibility and invisibility in the media and in the archive, the translation and transfer of collective perceptions, and the inscription or non-inscription into collective memory of the content and messages of images, films and theories. Jasna is a student in 1991 in Croatia, later an émigré in the Netherlands and still later an administrator at the ICTY. Jasna ponders the meaning of the black frame in analogue photography and mourns its loss in digital photography as she contemplates the enlarged pixels of a streamed court hearing.