Balkanbaby!
The working class has disappeared! Long live the working class! With Balkanbaby! K.U.R.S.K launches a three-part series about social rank and politics. The search leads first of all to the Balkans, where the Yugoslavian Communists once tried to bring people of the most disparate religions, cultures, and identities to swear to a common goal under the cloak of workers’ solidarity – with a well-known outcome. Mirza Šakić, Bosnian and immigrant to Switzerland, and Timo Krstin, Serbian and German migrant in Zurich, follow the so-called guest worker biographies of their families, showing how working class and diversity politics once belonged together, and how on the long path of migration to the bourgeois milieu they were separated by force. Rahel Sternberg disagrees.
With Balkanbaby! K.U.R.S.K is collaborating for the first time with animator and filmmaker Anja Kofmel. Her latest animated film Chris the Swiss, in which she investigates the involvement of her cousin Chris in the Yugoslavian wars, was honored in 2018 with the Zürcher Filmpreis [City of Zurich Film Prize].
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