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Time Never Regained: Film, Memory and History in Mila Turajlić’s Labudović Reels

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  • Radunović Dušan

    (School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Durham University, Durham, UK)

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The article reviews the documentary film diptych The Labudović Reels by film-maker Mila Turajlić. Based on her archival work at the Filmske Novosti production company, Turajlić discovers the legacy of hitherto unknown cinematographer Stevan Labudović. Both films are hybrid documentaries that combine archive footage with interview-style documentary, and both focus on two intertwined thematic cycles – Labudović’s coverage of the Algerian war of independence (1959–1961) and the first summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (1960–1961). Conceptually, Turajlić’s films engage thought-provoking matrixes, among them Pierre Nora’s lieux de memoire and, more especially, Walter Benjamin’s reflections on historical progress. This review finds that the implementation of the latter blurs the boundary between the critique of the idea of progress and historical relativism, which leads to the confusing presence of mutually exclusive voices in Turajlić’s film, one calling for the reappropriation of the past, and another calling that same past into question.

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  • Radunović Dušan, 2024. "Time Never Regained: Film, Memory and History in Mila Turajlić’s Labudović Reels," Comparative Southeast European Studies, De Gruyter, vol. 72(2), pages 256-269, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:bpj:soeuro:v:72:y:2024:i:2:p:256-269:n:9
    DOI: 10.1515/soeu-2024-0008
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