Mila Turajlic
Sound accompaniment: a text message ping, coughing (from tea going down the wrong way), a baby hollers, very high pitched tone (unknown), a computer chime noise
Drinks: Tea
Some things that joined us in the conversation: her first film, her current film in progress, Algerian Liberation War, NATO bombing of Serbia, The Secret Garden (the book), The Non-Aligned Movement, Agnes Varda, Varda's short doc about tourists on the Riveria, Gleaners & I, Magnificent 7 Film Festival, DOKSerbia (Association of Documentary Filmmakers), Testimony: Crises of Witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis, and History by Shoshana Felman & Dori Laub (particularly Chapter 2: Bearing Witness or the Vicissitudes of Listening and Chapter 3: Truth Testimony), John Grierson, Elizabeth Price Woolworths Choir, Mad Men, Scottish Documentary Institute, Robert Coles' Doing Documentary Work, Claude Lanzmann's Shoah, The D Word, Jennifer Fox's Beirut: The Last Home Movie, Orson Welles' F for Fake. Gary Tarn's Black Sun, Dreaming by Numbers by Anna Bucchetti, Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca, the scene in Bob Fosse's Cabaret that blew her mind as a child on the power of editing, Joan Didion, Hemingway sentences (she didn’t reference this article, but when searching for “Hemingway sentences” this one arrived), Joan Didion on Hemingway sentences