Past

<p>Who can know what is in the past? Is it what historians can tell us? Should we also trust what we can remember? </p><p><br></p><p><em>Past: An Introduction to the Problem</em> proposes that the problem of the past now concerns everyone. Visions of a different brighter future defeated in the Cold War and its heated afterlives we are being offered the past as the only horizon of possibility. </p><p><br></p><p>And what are we supposed to find in that past? </p><p><br></p><p>Philosopher Boris Buden considers these questions in a series of essays and conversations with filmmaker Zelimir Zilnik one of the most prominent filmmakers of the Black Wave of 1960s socialist Yugoslavia - a child of communists and an internationally successful artist using resources available to all in the socialist state Zilnik remains a constant critic of political systems that seek to curb artists' reflections on the world being built. Treating Zilnik as a rare witness of a past for which his work is uncommon documentation <em>Past: An Introduction to the Problem</em> asks crucial questions about ways we can know the past how the past informs our experience and how it defines our sense of possibility.</p>