Non-Aligned Newsreels: Voices from the Debris

Found in the vault of the Yugoslav Newsreels, 60 years after the first summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (Belgrade, 1961), two dozen reels of outtakes and unused footage from an event that once gathered ‘the consciousness of mankind’ embody this neglected history of what was formerly known as the Third World.

In a live documentary essay, filmmaker and archival artist Mila Turajlić, performs the archival research gestures that led to the discovery and pairing of remnants of images and sounds from the 1961 summit which took place in her hometown Belgrade, providing insight into the challenges of voicing forgotten histories and proposing an intimate ‘archiveological’ (Russell) practice in the place of missing narratives of global solidarity.

This presentation is part of the 8th Eye International Conference, which has Activating the Archive: Audiovisual Collections and Civic Engagement, Global Collaboration, and Societal Change as this year's theme.