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Debris from complex vessels - fragments from the non-aligned newsreels
2021, 60 min | Live Lecture Performance | by Mila Turajlić

This documentary lecture performance integrates unseen archival footage, sound recordings, uncovered documents and personal diaries to weave together the untold story of a trove of film archives kept in the former Yugoslav capital of Belgrade, filmed by the cameraman of Yugoslav President Tito. From the birth of the Third World as a political project in the late 1950s to the battle of liberation movements across Africa to seize control of their own media narratives, filmmaker/artist Mila Turajlić explores the role cinema plays in reimagining political communities.

Mila Turajlić (1979, born in Yugoslavia, lives in Paris and works in Belgrade) produces film and video works that draw on a combination of documentary, film archives and found footage to fabricate a new reflexive language confronting memory and ruins with the disappearing narratives of history. Her award-winning feature documentary films Cinema Komunisto and The Other Side of Everything have played at numerous festivals, and been released in theatres in France, the US and UK. In 2018 she was commissioned by MoMA to create archive-based video installations for their landmark exhibition on Yugoslav architecture.