Nostalgia Interviews With Chris Deacy

It was a pleasure to meet Milja Radovic for my penultimate interview from southern Scotland. Milja is carrying out interdisciplinary research on acts of citizenship in film as well as in film and aesthetics. She was born in Belgrade back when it was the capital of Yugoslavia during the reign of Tito, and we begin our conversation by discussing her experience of sitting on an Ecumenical film jury in the Czech Republic and ponder the question as to why some countries have a film culture while others do not. Milja talks about being an only child and reflects on the carefree and protected childhood in which she grew up. She has been living in the UK for 14 years which precipitates a discussion of what and where is home, including the possibility that home might be something one carries in oneself and that it comprises both embodied space and a part of our memory. We also consider whether one’s home can be a place you never saw. Milja reflects on how she remembers her childhood as a series of fragments, in p