The Spider Web City
Ali Pasha Castle, Albania, 2015
Over the course of three months Julia worked in Bathore, an informal settlement on the outskirts of Tirana, the capital city of Albania, tracing the history of the contentious community living there. In collaboration with composer Martin Heslop, the enquiry for this work has gone beyond Bathore, to Puka, Tropoja and Kukes, searching for the traditional musicians and the vacant villages of the north. The video follows the roots of one 21-year-old girl, born in Puka and raised in Bathore since the age of one. Her story represents the first generation of Bathore and the area as it is now, as it has become.