calls his own little masterpiece. Totally Personal . Ned?ad Begovicz. Bosnia and Herzegovina . 2004. 79 minutes. Color and B&W. In Bosnian with English subtitles. World premiere. 443 There is properly no history, only biography. 444 All that is personal soon rots; it must be packed in ice or salt. 445 I place a living cat into a steel chamber, along with a device containing a vial of hydrocyanic acid. In the chamber is a very small amount of a radioactive substance. If even a single atom of the substance decays during the test period, a relay mechanism will trip a hammer, which will break the vial and kill the cat. I can?t know whether an atom of the substance has decayed, and consequently, can?t know whether the vial has been broken, the hydrocyanic acid released, and the cat killed. Since I can?t know, the cat is both dead and alive according to quantum law, in a superposition of states. Only when I break open the box and learn the condition of the cat is this superposition lost and the cat dead or alive. The observation or measurement itself affects the outcome; it can never be known what the outcome would have been were it not observed. . . . The writers I love tend to have Schrdinger?s Paradox tattooed on their forehead: the perceiver by his very presence changes what?s perceived. A work without some element of self-reflexivity feels to me falsely monumental. 446 The highest as the lowest