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RE-ACTIVATING THE ARCHIVEPROJECT CREATOR: Mila Turajlić
CO-CREATOR & CREATIVE PRODUCER: Maja Medić A 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 2020 Maja Medic joined the project as co-creator and producer. The project was selected prestigious Cph:Lab in 2021, during which they developed their concept of collaborative workshops under the mentorship of Katerina Cizek (Artistic Director of the Co-Creation Studio at MIT Open Documentary Lab). 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 same year a video installation and workshop were commissioned for the Belgrade Biennale (Oktobarski Salon), and a live performance of the silent screening workshop was performed at De Balie as part of IDFA on Stage. In 2023 Mila and Maja co-curated their first exhibition stemming from the project in 2023 at the Museum of African Art in Belgrade, and conceived a public collaborative silent screening workshop with Aurelie Charon (Radiolive) for the Theatre Nationale de Bretagne. 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. For Maja Medic's work and portfolio visit her website. |
PROJECT TIMELINE
upcoming 2025 SHARJAH BIENNALE announced
upcoming SCREENING & TALK with ELAINE MOKHTEFI, CUNY, New York
upcoming LIVE DOCUMENTARY PERFORMANCE Theatre National de Bretagne, Saison '24-'25, Rennes - Nov 20, 21 & 22
2024 PUBLIC WORKSHOP | commissioned by the Sharjah Biennale'25
2024 PUBLIC WORKSHOP | Museu do Cinema em Moçambique @ Cinema Scala, Maputo
2024 PRESENTATION | Encontros do Patrimonio Audiovisual, Maputo
2024 LIVE DOCUMENTARY PERFORMANCE | L'image dans les blancs de l'histoire, Séminaire automnale du Bal et l'EHESS, Paris
2024 LIVE DOCUMENTARY PERFORMANCE | MG+MSUM, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana
2024 LECTURE PERFORMANCE | “Our Dream has the size of freedom. Retrieving fragments of ciné-solidarities from the Yugoslav film archives” , Radical Film Network conference, Madrid
2024 PANEL | Archives for the Future, DocSheffield, Sheffield
2024 PUBLIC WORKSHOP | Ruche documentaire, FIDADOC, Agadir, Morocco
2024 LECTURE PERFORMANCE | Hronike jugoslovenske filmske solidarnosti: Dragutin Popović i Frelimo, Nesvrstani i kulturne veze | Muzej Jugoslavije, Belgrade
2024 LIVE DOCUMENTARY PERFORMANCE | DocHouse, London
2024 LIVE DOCUMENTARY PERFORMANCE | Réimaginer le fragmentaire : mise-en-recit d'une archive, cycle "La recherche et ses récits" programmé par Pascale Cassagnau, Le Bal, Paris
2024 PUBLIC WORKSHOP | Panorama of European Cinema, Cairo
2023 LECTURE PERFORMANCE | Former Portuguese Colonies: Media and Decolonization, Rome
2023 VIDEO PERFORMANCE | Film-Act: Third Cinema and It's Legacies, Cairo
2023 PUBLIC WORKSHOP | Theatre Nationale de Bretagne, Rennes
2023 EXHIBITION | KIC, Zagreb
2023 BOOK CHAPTER | "Flotsam & Jetsam" in Accidental Activism: Shaping Cinema's Future with Remnants of the Past, Arsenal – Institut für Film und Videokunst e.V.
2023 LECTURE/PANEL | post Presents: Unsettled Dust—Archives, Epistemologies, Images, MoMA, New York
2023 LIVE DOCUMENTARY PERFORMANCE | Archival Assembly Festival, Cinema Transtopia, Berlin
2023 LIVE DOCUMENTARY PERFORMANCE | Eye International Conference, Eye Museum, Amsterdam
2023 LIVE DOCUMENTARY PERFORMANCE | Crossing the Line with Mila Turajlic, Scottish Documentary Institute, Edinburgh
2023 LIVE DOCUMENTARY PERFORMANCE | Faire parler les archives des non-alignés x Chaillot Expérience curated by Aurelie Charon and Amelie Bonnin | Theatre Nationale de Chaillot, Paris
2023 LIVE DOCUMENTARY PERFORMANCE| Non-Aligned Newsreels: Fragments #4 | The Mosaic Rooms, London
2023 EXHIBITION | Arhivski omnibus: Jugoslovenska svedočanstva o alžirskoj revoluciji, Museum of African Art, Belgrade
2023 BOOK CHAPTER | In Paul Stubbs (ed.) "Socialist Yugoslavia, Social Policy and the Non-Aligned Movement ", McGill-Queen's University Press
2022 PERFORMANCE | Non-Aligned Newsreels: Fragments #2 – New Voices from the Summit, IDFA on Stage, Amsterdam
2022 EXHIBITION & PERFORMANCE | 59th October salon (Belgrade Biennale),
2022 TALK | Three Archives in Conversation | Columbia University Institute of Ideas & Imagination, Paris
2022 PRESENTATION | Scenes from the Non-Aligned Newsreels, Bandung-Belgrade-Havana Commemorative Conference at the National Archives of the Republic of Indonesia, Jakarta
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
upcoming 2025 SHARJAH BIENNALE announced
upcoming SCREENING & TALK with ELAINE MOKHTEFI, CUNY, New York
upcoming LIVE DOCUMENTARY PERFORMANCE Theatre National de Bretagne, Saison '24-'25, Rennes - Nov 20, 21 & 22
2024 PUBLIC WORKSHOP | commissioned by the Sharjah Biennale'25
2024 PUBLIC WORKSHOP | Museu do Cinema em Moçambique @ Cinema Scala, Maputo
2024 PRESENTATION | Encontros do Patrimonio Audiovisual, Maputo
2024 LIVE DOCUMENTARY PERFORMANCE | L'image dans les blancs de l'histoire, Séminaire automnale du Bal et l'EHESS, Paris
2024 LIVE DOCUMENTARY PERFORMANCE | MG+MSUM, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana
2024 LECTURE PERFORMANCE | “Our Dream has the size of freedom. Retrieving fragments of ciné-solidarities from the Yugoslav film archives” , Radical Film Network conference, Madrid
2024 PANEL | Archives for the Future, DocSheffield, Sheffield
2024 PUBLIC WORKSHOP | Ruche documentaire, FIDADOC, Agadir, Morocco
2024 LECTURE PERFORMANCE | Hronike jugoslovenske filmske solidarnosti: Dragutin Popović i Frelimo, Nesvrstani i kulturne veze | Muzej Jugoslavije, Belgrade
2024 LIVE DOCUMENTARY PERFORMANCE | DocHouse, London
2024 LIVE DOCUMENTARY PERFORMANCE | Réimaginer le fragmentaire : mise-en-recit d'une archive, cycle "La recherche et ses récits" programmé par Pascale Cassagnau, Le Bal, Paris
2024 PUBLIC WORKSHOP | Panorama of European Cinema, Cairo
2023 LECTURE PERFORMANCE | Former Portuguese Colonies: Media and Decolonization, Rome
2023 VIDEO PERFORMANCE | Film-Act: Third Cinema and It's Legacies, Cairo
2023 PUBLIC WORKSHOP | Theatre Nationale de Bretagne, Rennes
2023 EXHIBITION | KIC, Zagreb
2023 BOOK CHAPTER | "Flotsam & Jetsam" in Accidental Activism: Shaping Cinema's Future with Remnants of the Past, Arsenal – Institut für Film und Videokunst e.V.
2023 LECTURE/PANEL | post Presents: Unsettled Dust—Archives, Epistemologies, Images, MoMA, New York
2023 LIVE DOCUMENTARY PERFORMANCE | Archival Assembly Festival, Cinema Transtopia, Berlin
2023 LIVE DOCUMENTARY PERFORMANCE | Eye International Conference, Eye Museum, Amsterdam
2023 LIVE DOCUMENTARY PERFORMANCE | Crossing the Line with Mila Turajlic, Scottish Documentary Institute, Edinburgh
2023 LIVE DOCUMENTARY PERFORMANCE | Faire parler les archives des non-alignés x Chaillot Expérience curated by Aurelie Charon and Amelie Bonnin | Theatre Nationale de Chaillot, Paris
2023 LIVE DOCUMENTARY PERFORMANCE| Non-Aligned Newsreels: Fragments #4 | The Mosaic Rooms, London
2023 EXHIBITION | Arhivski omnibus: Jugoslovenska svedočanstva o alžirskoj revoluciji, Museum of African Art, Belgrade
2023 BOOK CHAPTER | In Paul Stubbs (ed.) "Socialist Yugoslavia, Social Policy and the Non-Aligned Movement ", McGill-Queen's University Press
2022 PERFORMANCE | Non-Aligned Newsreels: Fragments #2 – New Voices from the Summit, IDFA on Stage, Amsterdam
2022 EXHIBITION & PERFORMANCE | 59th October salon (Belgrade Biennale),
2022 TALK | Three Archives in Conversation | Columbia University Institute of Ideas & Imagination, Paris
2022 PRESENTATION | Scenes from the Non-Aligned Newsreels, Bandung-Belgrade-Havana Commemorative Conference at the National Archives of the Republic of Indonesia, Jakarta
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