Smijko never flew to Bangkok or anywhere else east of Sarajevo. But he did make the Bankok documentary for his client. He recreated the distant Thailand city that he had never seen, from his imagination, in his own town, with his camera. Scattered throughout Sarajevo the Bangkok locations revealed themselves in the foliage, the graffiti, the people's faces. Sarajevo is a city of many faces and even a paid exile wasn't worth the struggle.
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