Ciné-Guerrillas: Scenes from the Labudović Reels
Films about Films
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1h 33m
Directed by Mila Turajlić • Documentary • 2023 • 94 minutes
At an Algerian museum, Serbian filmmaker Mila Turajlić is struck by an exhibit featuring an old film camera. It belonged to a Yugoslav cameraman, celebrated as a hero in Algeria. His name is Stevan Labudović, he is 87, and he lives in Belgrade. Turajlić, from the same city, had never heard of him.
Known as the finest cameraman in Yugoslavia, he was handpicked in 1960 by Yugoslav President Josep Broz Tito to support the Algerian anti-colonial effort, in part because he saw parallels between the Algerian resistance and the Yugoslav partisans’ fight against Nazi occupiers in WWII. Labudović’s mission: to make films countering French propaganda.
In CINÉ-GUERRILLAS: SCENES FROM THE LABUDOVIĆ REELS Turajlić follows Labudović’s work in Algeria through intimate interviews with him and Algerian revolutionary contemporaries—and, more importantly, through his newsreel footage, which she matches up with excerpts from his diary. This is a testament to international solidarity, and to the power of images in the fight for decolonization.
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