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Blerta Haziraj is an artistic researcher and experimental filmmaker based in Kosovo. Blerta is a self-taught artist, whose practice is focused on forgotten feminist histories and archives that she creatively repurposes to experiment with various mediums such as film, fanzines, posters, and other forms of artistic production. She is interested in the re-interpretation of the first feminist Albanian publications and artistically confronting the portrayal of women characters in Albanian dramaturgy as well as a cinematic inquiry into the “female gaze” in underdeveloped areas of Kosovo. Blerta’s short films “How I Failed Documenting Male Gaze” (2021) and “Your Eyes and Hands Must be Seen Everywhere” (2022) address gender issues by creating a critical interaction between the past and the present. She is also the author of “ATO fanzine”, which reflects on the history of the Women’s Antifascist Front of Kosovo, and she is the co-author of the book “FROM SCRATCH: Albanian Summer Picaresque” with Pykë/Presje, an independent publishing collective.
