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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 parallel she has been making a feature-length documentary film on Stevan Labudovic, that is scheduled for release at the start of 2022.. 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. |
The Non-Aligned Newsreels project (Mila Turajlic and Maja Medic) has been selected for the prestigious Cph:Lab, starting in October 2021. CPH:DOX’s renowned talent development and training programme, has chosen nine new international immersive documentary projects which will go through an intense development phase and be ready to present their prototypes in March 2022 at the Inter:Active Symposium at CPH:DOX in Copenhagen.
PROJECT TIMELINE
2021 upcoming | 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
2021 upcoming | 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
