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Wednesday, Mar 4, 2026
7 PM (85 mins)
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Occupation Diaries: Three Portraits
In Conversation
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Jonathan Mackris is a PhD candidate in the Department of Film & Media at UC Berkeley.
Jeffrey Skoller presents three films focused on memories of World War II: In Želimir Žilnik’s 1973 Uprising in Jazak, the elderly residents of a town in the former Yugoslavia reenact and recollect their fight against Nazi occupation. Skoller’s The Unimagined Lives of Our Neighbors series features nonagenarians recounting their experiences of history-changing events. Berkeley Asian art scholar Joseph Fischer was among the first US Navy seamen sent into Hiroshima and Nagasaki two weeks after the atom bombs were dropped, and Alex Matthews took part in the guerilla resistance against the horrors of Nazi occupation in Greece leading up to the first Greek Civil War.
Films in this Screening
Uprising in Jazak
Želimir Žilnik, Yugoslavia, 1973
FILM DETAILS
Language
- Serbian
- with English subtitles
Print Info
- B&W/Color
- DCP
- 18 mins
source
- Želimir Žilnik
The Unimagined Lives of Our Neighbors
Jeffrey Skoller, United States, 2019
FILM DETAILS
Print Info
- Color
- DCP
- 27 mins
source
- Canyon Cinema
The Unimagined Lives of Our Neighbors: Occupation Diary
Jeffrey Skoller, United States, 2025
FILM DETAILS
Language
- Greek
- English
- with English subtitles
Print Info
- Color
- DCP
- 40 mins
director
- Canyon Cinema
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