[NYC-L] PBS KLA Hatchet Job

[Isa Blumi]

sorry for the interruption, cat stepped on the
keyboard, but...such documented stories would do far
more than anything being done on kosova's behalf in
Prishtina (which, aside from Albin Kurti's KAN, is not
much).

I have met several anthropology students over the last
few years and I was getting hopeful that they would
apply their training to do some interesting things
about redirecting the tone surrounding how Albnians in
general are represented in academia, or even better
yet, reveal some of the more important legacies of
long term suppression to fit in the popular
post-colonial genre that has infested academia
today...as of now, we have a Japanese scholar who just
finished a study on Kanun...this constant return to
Albanian exotica keeps Kosova savage, a perfect
condition to justify Belgrade's increasingly
persuasive arguments that only they know how to handle
Kosova. Why could not some of our anthropology
students team up with colleagues, film-maker friends
to do a multi-media study on Kosovars that sheds light
on just how similar our experiences with war,
oppression, state terrorism have been with
others...the 10th anniversary of Srbrenica had
Belgrade on its heals...it still contempteously keeps
the remains of at least 600 men, avoiding the media
specticle and no one in the outside world is raising
an arm in outrage.

Can anyone direct me to a Kosovar making a
documentary-style film on Kosova? At least for a
European/US market?

Respectfully,

Isa




--- Jeton Ademaj <jeton at hotmail.com> wrote:

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> ===
> 
> Hey all
> 
> i just finished watching the latest installment of
> P.O.V. on PBS Channel 13 
> in New York and it was the long awaited film version
> of Stacy Sullivan's 
> journalistic relationship with Florin Krasniqi,
> called "The Brooklyn 
> Connection". The film takes Ms. Sullivan's barely
> contained contempt for 
> Krasniqi's efforts and adds editorial juxtapostions
> from the filmmaker. 
> Essentially the film comes off as a pro-UN,
> pro-internationalist 
> anti-profile, with a strong sub-focus on the US
> gun-control angle. Since i 
> run the NYC chapter of the Pink Pistols, i might be
> more sensitive to 
> anti-2nd Amendment politicking than Florin is, but I
> think another angle 
> manipulated into the film should concern everyone on
> this list:
> 
> Towards the end of the film, with the filmmaker
> following assorted KLA arms 
> shipment routes into Kosove, they show an excerpt of
> Florin describing the 
> UN's moribund bureaucracy, and how one of it's aims
> is to keep Kosova's 
> economy from moving forward too qucikly, so they sit
> on the economy to 
> thwart any unilateral declaration of independence.
> Florin goes on to say 
> that "if need be, we'll get the UN out of here as
> well". The film then 
> juxtaposes that with a KFOR commander describing the
> zero-tolerance KFOR has 
> for armed activity by "extremists"...
> 
> ...well the film ends shortly thereafter, and then
> the filmmaker (not Ms. 
> Sullivan, one Ms. Klaartje Quirijns) begins speaking
> in a talking-head 
> format. She goes on to say that she's frequently
> asked "why did he let u 
> film him, why did he tell u all of these secrets"
> and she offers what 
> appears to be her own analysis, i paraphrase because
> i didnt record the 
> program: "I think Florin wants Kosovo to be back on
> the front burner, to 
> bring attention thats been lost with the war in
> Iraq. As frustration grows 
> with their current situation, they appear to be
> preparing to fight 
> NATO"...this assesment most certainly goes beyond
> what I heard Florin 
> Krasniqi say in the film, which focused on thwarting
> UN obstructionism.
> 
> I understand Florin wanting to bring attention back
> to K, i just wish he had 
> been more appreciative of the international and
> domestic-US agendas of the 
> filmmaker and journalist he cooperated with.
> 
> The program, "P.O.V. : The Brooklyn Connection" can
> be researched at 
>
http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2005/thebrooklynconnection/
> 
> ...it will also rebroadcast locally in NYC on July
> 25th at 1am 
> (sunday-nite/monday morning). people can also offer
> comments on the pov 
> website: http://www.POV.org
> 
> spread the word...
> 
> Jeton
> 
> PS: Isa, pardon the delay, i do owe u an extended
> response onlist to your 
> last long missive. i promise to provide one
> shortly...
> 
> 
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