Scenes from the Labudović Reels
Self-described "artivist" Mila Turajlić mines Yugoslavian newsreel archives to tell a story of international solidarity and resistance to the binary of the Cold War. Focusing on the work of cameraman Stevan Labudović, who traveled the world on Yugoslav "peace missions" and was embedded with Algerian freedom fighters for three years, the films in this diptych, Ciné-Guerrillas and Non-Aligned, can be watched together, but also stand alone as fascinating independent documentary works.
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Ciné-Guerrillas: Scenes from the Labudović Reels
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 B...
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Non-Aligned: Scenes from the Labudović Reels
Directed by Mila Turajlić • Documentary • 2023 • 100 minutes
Filmmaker Mila Turajlić was born in Belgrade, and grew up singing patriotic songs extolling Yugoslav leader Josep Broz Tito. The images that populated her “Yugoslavia of the mind” came largely from government newsreels—and the most ico...
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Ciné-Guerrillas: Scenes from the Labudović Reels Trailer
Self-described "artivist" Mila Turajlić mines Yugoslavian newsreel archives to tell a story of international solidarity and resistance to the binary of the Cold War. Focusing on the work of cameraman Stevan Labudović, who traveled the world on Yugoslav "peace missions" and was embedded with Alger...
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Non-Aligned: Scenes from the Labudović Reels Trailer
Self-described "artivist" Mila Turajlić mines Yugoslavian newsreel archives to tell a story of international solidarity and resistance to the binary of the Cold War. Focusing on the work of cameraman Stevan Labudović, who traveled the world on Yugoslav "peace missions" and was embedded with Alger...
