Non-Aligned Newsreels: Fragments #4, a live documentary performance

With Non-Aligned Newsreels: Fragments #4 (2023, 60 mins), Mila Turajlic invites the audience into a process of confronting archival material which has fallen out political narratives. The starting point is the recovery of a trove of reels kept in the vaults of the Yugoslav Newsreels in her hometown, Belgrade. Footage filmed by Yugoslav cameramen starting from the 1950s across a decolonising world takes us within the ranks of the Algerian Liberation Movement and FRELIMO, to newly-independent countries such as Mali and Tanzania, and the foundational gathering of the Non-Aligned Movement which took place in Belgrade in 1961. Layering this ‘resurfaced’ footage with oral histories, sound recordings and personal archives into a confessional speculation, Turajlic performs the challenges of giving voice to unfulfilled political projects. The live ‘excavation’ opens a space where she and the audience journey together exploring the poetics of the fragmentary.

EVOLVING ITERATIONS HAVE BEEN PERFORMED AT:

The Mosaic Rooms, London, March 2023
Theatre National Chaillot, Paris, April 2023 (French version)
Scottish Documentary Institute, Edinburgh, April 2023
         Crossing the Line programme: a series of conversations with filmmakers who challenge the boundaries of documentary cinema
EYE Museum Conference, Amsterdam, June 2023
Archival Assembly, Berlin, June 2023
Theatre Nationale de Bretagne, Rennes, November 2023 (French version)
Center for Documentary Research and Practice, Indiana University, Bloomington March 2024
Le Bal, Paris, May 2024 (French version)
Bertha DocHouse, London, May 2024
Our Many Easts, MG+MSUM, Moderna Galerija Summer Schoo,, Ljubljana, August 2024
L'image dans les blancs de l'histoire, Seminaire automnale du Bal avec l'EHESS, Paris, October 2024
UPCOMING - 3-nights at the Theatre Nationale de Bretagne, Rennes, November 2024 (French version)