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RE-ACTIVATING THE ARCHIVEA deep-dive into the archival materials of a non-aligned ciné-collaboration and the legacy of the cameramen who filmed them.
Since 2015, filmmaker and archival artist Mila Turajlić has been researching the non-aligned collection of the Yugoslav archives, seeking to 'project' the images forward - via critical writing, lecture performances, video installations, exhibitions and online content.
From the films made by Yugoslav cameramen accompanying President Tito's 'Voyages of Peace' across the non-aligned world in the 1950s and 1960s, to the footage they shot for liberation movements and newly-independent countries in the 1970s, and the collaborative film projects covering the Non-Aligned Summits up until 1989, the aim is to explore the ways the filmic image chronicled the birth of a political project, becoming at the same time the vehicle through which this community was constituted and their vision narrated. Developed via ongoing collaboration with Filmske Novosti - the Yugoslav Newsreels - the research project includes critical writing and visual installation projects. Beginning with a series of presentations and exchanges with academic scholars studying the re-surging field of non-alignment and Yugoslavia's role in the creation of the movement, the project expanded into the visual art field in 2019 via participation in Southern Constellations: The Poetics of the Non-Aligned exhibition curated by Bojana Piškur, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Ljubljana. Mila also developed the project as a series of audiovisual performance lectures that she performed internationally. In 2022 the curator of the Berlin Biennale, Kader Attia, commissioned a piece for the Biennale based on the research materials and archives Stevan Labudovic had filmed for the Algerian Liberation Movement, titled screen/solidarity/silence: debris from the Labudovic Reels. The upcoming book on Yugoslavia's cinematic role in the non-aligned world and exhibition are supported through a Fellowship at the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination, Paris.
For Mila Turajlic's biography, consult the filmmaker's website. |
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A piece from the Non-Aligned Newsreels project is currently featured at the 12th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art taking place from June 11 to September 18, 2022.
SCREEN/SOLIDARITY/SILENCE – DEBRIS FROM THE LABUDOVIĆ REELS, 2022, video installation, photographs, documents, dimensions variable, video still, courtesy estate Stevan Labudović © Mila Turajlić On exhibit at the KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin. |
The Non-Aligned Newsreels project (Mila Turajlic and Maja Medic) participated in the prestigious Cph:Lab in 2021-2022. CPH:DOX’s renowned talent development and training programme shepherds new international immersive documentary projects through intense development phase and presented their prototypes in March 2022 at the Inter:Active Symposium at CPH:DOX in Copenhagen.
PROJECT TIMELINE
2022 | EXHIBITION | screen/solidarity/silence: debris from the Labudovic Reels, Berlin Biennale (curator Kader Attia), Berlin
2022 | TALK | The Cinematic Image of the Non-Aligned Movement, University of Leipzig
2022 | TALK | Narratives of Transnational Solidarity in the Archives of Yugoslav Newsreels, CREES Lecture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
2021 | CONVERSATION | Ciné-collaborations between Yugoslavia and African countries as gestures of anti-colonial solidarity, with Aboubakar Sanogo and Jihan el-Tahri, Visible Evidence, Frankfurt
2021 | PANEL | Archive Alive! From Repository to Resource, Sharjah Film Platform, Sharjah
2021 | PRESENTATION | Archives of Solidarity: Yugoslav Newsreels and the Non-Aligned World, Harriman Institute at Columbia University, New York
2021 | PERFORMANCE LECTURE | The Labudović Reels: Cinematic Solidarity Across the Non-Aligned World, Columbia University - Institute for Ideas and Imagination, Paris
2021 | PHOTO ESSAY | "Solidarity Must Be Defended" Anthology on Transnational Solidarity, edited by Eszter Szakács and Naeem Mohaiemen
2021 | PERFORMANCE LECTURE | Debris from complex vessels - fragments from the non-aligned newsreels, Adrift residency curated by Bahía Colectiva @ Los Angeles Filmforum, Los Angeles
2021 | PRESENTATION | Towards a Conjuctural Political Economy of Non-Alignment and Cultural Politics, Rijeka
2021 | EXHIBITION | Južna sazvedja: politike nesvrstanih, curated by Bojana Piškur, Drugo more, Rijeka
2021 | ARTIST'S TALK | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research- Comuna AV group, hosted by Vijay Prashad
2021 | WORKSHOP | New Alphabet School # Survivance, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Porto
2021 | TALK | Naeem Mohaiemen in conversation with Mila Turajlic on Cinema Komunisto, Oberhauzen Film Festival kurzfilmtage channel
2021 | ARTIST'S TALK | Home Workspace Program (HWP) led by Rasha Salti, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut
2021 | PRESENTATION | Screen Solidarities: Yugoslavia’s cinematic links to the non-aligned world, The Non-Aligned Movement & Socialist Yugoslavia conference
2021 | ARTICLE | "Filmske Novosti - Filmed Diplomacy" in Nationalities Papers, the peer-reviewed journal of ASN. Special issue: “Internationalism in Times of Nationalism”
2021 | CINÉ-CONFERENCE | The 1961 Belgrade NAM Conference Archives | Bandung Spirit - The Rise of Asia Conference, France
2020 | PRESENTATION | Stevan Labudović: Yugoslavia’ s ciné-collaborations with liberation movements, Solidarity of Art, Qattan Foundation, Ramallah
2020 | PRESENTATION | Resurrecting the filmed archives of a disappeared country, Reframing Africa 2020, Wits School of Arts Film & Television, Johannesburg
2020 | CINÉ-CONFERENCE | ONU 1960: "Le plus grand show da le planete", Rendez-vous de l'histoire, Blois
2019 | PRESENTATION | Arab Documentary Convention, Leipzig
2019 | PERFORMANCE LECTURE | Belgrade Conférence / La naissance des non-alignés, Odeon Theatre, Paris
2019 | EXHIBITION | Southern Constellations: The Poetics of the Non-Aligned, Museum of Contemporary Art, Ljubljana
2019 | PERFORMANCE LECTURE | The Labudovic Reels, The Wende Museum of the Cold War, Los Angeles
2018 | PERFORMANCE LECTURE | Orphan Film Symposium, Museum of the Moving Image, New York
2017 | PERFORMANCE LECTURE | Yugoslav Films from the Non-Aligned Movement, Orphelins de Paris, Cinémathèque française, Paris
2017 | PRESENTATION | Visible Evidence Conference, Buenos Aires
2017 | ARTIST'S TALK | Something You Should Know - artist's seminar curated by Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez, EHESS, Paris
2017 | ARTICLE | “Filmske novosti – Filmska diplomatija”, in Marko Jelić (ed.), Alžir-Beograd jubilej prijateljstva 1962-2017: 55 godina nezavisnosti Alžira. Beograd: Društvo prijatelja Alžira, 170-177.
2017 | ARTICLE | “Re-aligning Yugoslavia: The Construction of Alterity in the Yugoslav Newsreels”, On_Culture: The Open Journal for the Study of Culture.
2016 | PRESENTATION | Museum of Yugoslav History: A Non-Aligned Museum, Belgrade
2016 | PRESENTATION | (Re)Thinking Yugoslav Internationalism, Graz
2022 | EXHIBITION | screen/solidarity/silence: debris from the Labudovic Reels, Berlin Biennale (curator Kader Attia), Berlin
2022 | TALK | The Cinematic Image of the Non-Aligned Movement, University of Leipzig
2022 | TALK | Narratives of Transnational Solidarity in the Archives of Yugoslav Newsreels, CREES Lecture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
2021 | CONVERSATION | Ciné-collaborations between Yugoslavia and African countries as gestures of anti-colonial solidarity, with Aboubakar Sanogo and Jihan el-Tahri, Visible Evidence, Frankfurt
2021 | PANEL | Archive Alive! From Repository to Resource, Sharjah Film Platform, Sharjah
2021 | PRESENTATION | Archives of Solidarity: Yugoslav Newsreels and the Non-Aligned World, Harriman Institute at Columbia University, New York
2021 | PERFORMANCE LECTURE | The Labudović Reels: Cinematic Solidarity Across the Non-Aligned World, Columbia University - Institute for Ideas and Imagination, Paris
2021 | PHOTO ESSAY | "Solidarity Must Be Defended" Anthology on Transnational Solidarity, edited by Eszter Szakács and Naeem Mohaiemen
2021 | PERFORMANCE LECTURE | Debris from complex vessels - fragments from the non-aligned newsreels, Adrift residency curated by Bahía Colectiva @ Los Angeles Filmforum, Los Angeles
2021 | PRESENTATION | Towards a Conjuctural Political Economy of Non-Alignment and Cultural Politics, Rijeka
2021 | EXHIBITION | Južna sazvedja: politike nesvrstanih, curated by Bojana Piškur, Drugo more, Rijeka
2021 | ARTIST'S TALK | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research- Comuna AV group, hosted by Vijay Prashad
2021 | WORKSHOP | New Alphabet School # Survivance, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Porto
2021 | TALK | Naeem Mohaiemen in conversation with Mila Turajlic on Cinema Komunisto, Oberhauzen Film Festival kurzfilmtage channel
2021 | ARTIST'S TALK | Home Workspace Program (HWP) led by Rasha Salti, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut
2021 | PRESENTATION | Screen Solidarities: Yugoslavia’s cinematic links to the non-aligned world, The Non-Aligned Movement & Socialist Yugoslavia conference
2021 | ARTICLE | "Filmske Novosti - Filmed Diplomacy" in Nationalities Papers, the peer-reviewed journal of ASN. Special issue: “Internationalism in Times of Nationalism”
2021 | CINÉ-CONFERENCE | The 1961 Belgrade NAM Conference Archives | Bandung Spirit - The Rise of Asia Conference, France
2020 | PRESENTATION | Stevan Labudović: Yugoslavia’ s ciné-collaborations with liberation movements, Solidarity of Art, Qattan Foundation, Ramallah
2020 | PRESENTATION | Resurrecting the filmed archives of a disappeared country, Reframing Africa 2020, Wits School of Arts Film & Television, Johannesburg
2020 | CINÉ-CONFERENCE | ONU 1960: "Le plus grand show da le planete", Rendez-vous de l'histoire, Blois
2019 | PRESENTATION | Arab Documentary Convention, Leipzig
2019 | PERFORMANCE LECTURE | Belgrade Conférence / La naissance des non-alignés, Odeon Theatre, Paris
2019 | EXHIBITION | Southern Constellations: The Poetics of the Non-Aligned, Museum of Contemporary Art, Ljubljana
2019 | PERFORMANCE LECTURE | The Labudovic Reels, The Wende Museum of the Cold War, Los Angeles
2018 | PERFORMANCE LECTURE | Orphan Film Symposium, Museum of the Moving Image, New York
2017 | PERFORMANCE LECTURE | Yugoslav Films from the Non-Aligned Movement, Orphelins de Paris, Cinémathèque française, Paris
2017 | PRESENTATION | Visible Evidence Conference, Buenos Aires
2017 | ARTIST'S TALK | Something You Should Know - artist's seminar curated by Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez, EHESS, Paris
2017 | ARTICLE | “Filmske novosti – Filmska diplomatija”, in Marko Jelić (ed.), Alžir-Beograd jubilej prijateljstva 1962-2017: 55 godina nezavisnosti Alžira. Beograd: Društvo prijatelja Alžira, 170-177.
2017 | ARTICLE | “Re-aligning Yugoslavia: The Construction of Alterity in the Yugoslav Newsreels”, On_Culture: The Open Journal for the Study of Culture.
2016 | PRESENTATION | Museum of Yugoslav History: A Non-Aligned Museum, Belgrade
2016 | PRESENTATION | (Re)Thinking Yugoslav Internationalism, Graz
