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.
Jeffrey Skoller will join UC Berkeley PhD candidate Jonathan Mackris in a conversation following the screening.
For ticket information see the Occupation Diaries: Three Portraits event listing on the BAMPFA website.
Films in this Screening:
Uprising in Jazak
Želimir Žilnik, Yugoslavia, 1973
The Unimagined Lives of Our Neighbors
Jeffrey Skoller, United States, 2019
The Unimagined Lives of Our Neighbors: Occupation Diary
Jeffrey Skoller, United States, 2025