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Who is Irena Paskali?

Medi Artist from Macedonia .
Lives and works in Skopje Macedonia, and Cologne, Germany
More info for my works and me on my webwww.irenapaskali.com

Your film is about?

East and West
"It seems that all my life I’m dancing on a wire stretched between two fortresses."
Departure: The trip from East to West. It is always like a stretched rope which is unsecured and you can easily fall and get lost. The rope merges, serves for transport, but it is not secured.
Arrival: I want to present the impact of the political information which simply traps us, limit us. Here are meaningful social-political scenes starting from the past up to today. Politic is everything for us. It is morning, noon, evening, mum, dad.. It is our life’s circulation.
Survival: East arrived in the West. Bare footed. Will he loose himself, or has he found his better road? A question to which I personally do not have an answer, what do you think about that?

How did you start with film? And do you have an educational background in art or film?

When I moved to Germany for my MFA I described my ambiguous feelings between east and west.
I started my postgraduate study at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne

Could you explain how you work, what themes or concepts and what is important to you?

I intend to illustrate different, universal social messages.

How does content relate to the form of your film?

Mainly Experimental

How did the film come about? Everything (carefully) planned or more intuitive?

More intuitive and after that carefully planned.

How do you finance your projects (by yourself, sponsors or subsidy)?

Academy of Media Arts Cologne



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