Anri Sala, Intervista

Anri Sala lives and works in France, but he was born in Albania in 1974 and grew up in Tirana during the Communist era and witnessed Albania’s shaky conversion to capitalism. In the mid 1990s, he moved to Paris to study film and video. Since that time, he has received widespread acclaim for his blend of documentary, narrative, and autobiographical approaches.

Among his most praised work is Intervista (1998), in which Sala explores the history of the Albania revolution through found television footage of his mother’s activities as a leader of the Communist youth alliance. The film follows Sala’s efforts to recover the contents of his mother’s interview, now silent without its original soundtrack.

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Anri Sala, Intervista