Ana Bilankov
Chasing the sun: El Shatt
Croatia, 2023, 20 min.
The film touches on some historical facts about the largest El Shatt refugee camp in the Sinai desert in Egypt during World War II, based on material from Croatian and international archives interwoven with visuals of this desert non-place now. The film is an attempt to reconstruct the fragmented memory of an unknown history of migration in the Mediterranean as a transtemporal cinematic journey.
Ana Bilankov (Berlin/Zagreb) is a visual artist and director who works in the media of experimental film, photography and video installation. She studied art history and German language and literature at the Universities of Zagreb and Mainz and completed the postgraduate study “Art in Context” at the University of the Arts in Berlin. She exhibited at many exhibitions, is the recipient of numerous international scholarships and participated in film and video festivals where she won several awards.
