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Skateboarding in Sarajevo - The Movie
Oct. 5th, 2009 04:35 pmCarol LaFayette's video based on my poem "Skateboarding in Sarajevo: Prelude to an Ordinary Evening in Atlanta" is finally up on YouTube after being effectively out of distribution as a DVD for a couple of years. It pleases me that on YouTube in 2009, this meditation on the early-1990s war in Bosnia and the early-1860s American Civil War (with which Atlanta is associated via the actual siege of 1864, the Cyclorama, and Gone With the Wind) appears alongside a number of recent videos of actual peacetime skateboarding in Sarajevo, unlike the Sarajevans' skateboarding past snipers that gave my poem its title.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSizqAiBYxM
The video of “Skateboarding in Sarajevo” is fiction based on fact: this video is the only time the works in the supposed exhibition were ever on public display; the directors of the Carlos Museum and the High Museum are played by actors; the elegant discomfort that concludes the video was counted down at Carol's direction...an outtake preserved on the original DVD had me exclaiming at a different location, "Tell us what to do, dammit!" which is the story of my life, or one of the many stories, along with Charlie Brown and the football.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSizqAiBYxM
The video of “Skateboarding in Sarajevo” is fiction based on fact: this video is the only time the works in the supposed exhibition were ever on public display; the directors of the Carlos Museum and the High Museum are played by actors; the elegant discomfort that concludes the video was counted down at Carol's direction...an outtake preserved on the original DVD had me exclaiming at a different location, "Tell us what to do, dammit!" which is the story of my life, or one of the many stories, along with Charlie Brown and the football.
