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Prime Time in the Camps

Short Films • 27m

Directed by Chris Marker • Documentary • 1993 • 28 minutes

In Roska Camp in Slovenia, Bosnian refugees, deprived of their belongings, decide with the technical help of an N.G.O. to create a way to share information. They decide to make a television program, edited with equipment to make it look like actual TV — with anchorpersons, jingles, and pirating of shows that talk about them.

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balkans, bosnia, chris marker, citizenship, communication, cultural anthropology, cultural sector, expository, filmmaking, icarus films, immigration and refugees, late 20th century (world history), ovid, prime time in the camps, radio and television, refugees, s_0041, s_0048, s_0065, s_0109, s_0153, s_0238, s_0314, s_0465, s_0469, s_0627, s_0640, slavic studies, social movements and activism, television, the, the politics of art, title_p

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