Detours brings together footage shot in Lebanon between 2019 and 2021. Wandering among skyscrapers and worn-out buildings, Vida Guzmić’s camera captures, in fragments, the contrasts of a country and its people caught in the midst of crisis and protests.
Vida Guzmić is a Croatian artist, born in Zagreb in 1986. She earned a Master of Arts in New Media from the Academy of Fine Arts at the University of Zagreb in 2012, and a degree in Gender Studies from the Center for Women’s Studies in Zagreb in 2013. Her work has been exhibited at V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media in Rotterdam and at KulturKontakt Austria in Vienna. As a member of the collective Space is Tactics between 2012 and 2018, she organized audio/video workshops for young women through Studio Pangolin. Detours, produced by the same studio, is selected for the Slow Film Festival in London in 2025.
… Welcome to a jouney of discovery through a multilayered subjective portrait along and across the borders of the European Union ! 12 ASTERISCI takes us on a journey of discovery to several locations on the inner and outer borders of the European Union, with its 16mm camera and black-and-white imagery that transports us out of time. A timeless journey through the mysterious landscapes of Europe's borders.
Ahmet, 15, grows up in the mountains of Macedonia, where he tends his father's sheep while looking after his little brother. But what he really dreams of is music. Caught between the expectations of those around him and his desire to see the world, will Ahmet ever be able to follow his own path? Ahmet, a teenage shepherd in Macedonia, dreams of music and must choose between his family's expectations and his desire to follow his own path.
