NEBO.KAD.NEZNA - 

when the sky does not know

Video | 2025 | 16:9 | 

Nebo.kad.nezna is a poetic moving image work, set among the overgrown ruins of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The work reflects on abandonment and the traces of war in rural areas — homes that remain deserted decades after the conflict ended.

An estimated 40% of all homes in the country were damaged or destroyed during the 1992–1995 war, and many were never rebuilt. Some buildings were left unfinished, interrupted mid-construction; others have slowly fallen into decay. Alongside these visible ruins, nearly half of the population has left the country since the war. In many regions, entire villages stand almost empty. Some places are now home to only one or two returnees. Shot on location, many of these structures still linger like open wounds in a beautiful landscape.

From the silence of these abandoned ruins, the video unfolds: visual flashes of memories disrupt the stillness of the broken buildings — brief glimpses of what once was, as if the bricks themselves remember. In postproduction, the walls and bricks were set into motion - folding, mirroring, gliding - echoing the rhythm of a life they once contained. The video is a visual elegy, attempting to invoke a spirit that once pulsed through the land. 

At the end, a final promise is spoken into the fading sky: “Ich werde ein Monument bauen” – I will build a monument. A personal offering to a disappearing world and a monument for all the places like it.