Screenshots from Letters to Max (2012), film by Eric Baudelaire. This fascinated me, the physical ex
Screenshots from Letters to Max (2012), film by Eric Baudelaire. This fascinated me, the physical existence of a nation (and a symbolic understanding of its nationality/nationhood) but the bureaucratic non-existence of a nation and its people.“Abkhazia is something of a paradox: a country that exists, in the physical sense of the word (a territory with borders, a government, a flag, a language), yet it has no legal existence because for almost twenty years it was not recognized by any other nation state. And so Abkhazia exists without existing, caught in a liminal space, a space in between realities. Which is why my first letter to Max was something of a message in a bottle thrown at sea.” -- source link
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