Inbetweenisms

Inbetweenisms is an artistic research on gender, identity and transition in Albania. From a female, Western and film makers’ perspective I examine how in Albania – a country in transition from communism to democracy – women model and experience their identity, by means of intergenerational relations in a familial context. I probe for their identity and place in a traditionally patriarchal society through filmic research, analysis of scientific literature and conversations with Albanian women and researchers in diverse disciplines. Are Albanian women ‘inbetween’: stuck between tradition and modernity, between patriarchy and (Balkan) feminism? I also examine if Albanian women differ from us and how we deal with mutual resemblance and difference as a more-than-representational method to transcend 'Otherness'. I assess my own film practice against insights from visual anthropology and non/more-than-representational theory in a hybrid compilation of film, (theoretical) analysis, (filmed) conversations and (personal) reflections on women, identity, resemblance, difference, 'Othering' and its opposite.