Film as Political School deals with the filmic representations of Kosovo during the twilight of Yugoslavia—of nationalism, apartheid, uprisings, class struggles and state violence. The project distills its narrative from the images of the 1980s, a time when multiple political crises intertwined with social unrest, and the widespread commodification of cultural forms was dawning. The aim of the project is to picture this history through its gaps, to put them into motion. The project treats film as a research tool that has the capacity to uncover this historical period’s visual palimpsests.

The first volume of the series titled Stuttering Universality brings together Shkëlzen Maliqi’s polemical writings on Kosovafilm productions from the mid-eighties, with a critical introduction by Tevfik Rada. -Publisher