Yugoslavia – How Ideology Moved Our Collective Body

Tracing changes in the social system from socialist Yugoslavia to Serbia, the film looks at how ideology performed itself in public space through mass performances. For this research-based essay film Popivoda collected and analyzed film and video footage from the period of Yugoslavia (1945 – 2000), focusing state performances such as youth work actions, May Day parades, celebrations of the Youth Day, as well as counter-demonstrations, in particular the 1968 student demonstrations, the civic demonstrations in the 1990s, and 5 October Revolution 2000. "Experience of the dissolution of the state, and today’s ‘wild’ capitalist reestablishment of the class system in Serbia are my reasons for going back" (Marta Popivoda)

Keywords

  • Next Gen: Universität der Künste Berlin
  • eastern europe
  • history
  • media
  • politics

Director

  • Marta Popivoda

Documentary, Independent


1h 2min


16+

EN

France
Germany
Serbia
2013
The film looks at how ideology performed itself in public space through mass performances in socialist Yugoslavia.

The film looks at how ideology performed itself in public space through mass performances in socialist Yugoslavia.


Tracing changes in the social system from socialist Yugoslavia to Serbia, the film looks at how ideology performed itself in public space through mass performances.


For this research-based essay film Popivoda collected and analyzed film and video footage from the period of Yugoslavia (1945 – 2000), focusing state performances such as youth work actions, May Day parades, celebrations of the Youth Day, as well as counter-demonstrations, in particular the 1968 student demonstrations, the civic demonstrations in the 1990s, and 5 October Revolution 2000.


"Experience of the dissolution of the state, and today’s ‘wild’ capitalist reestablishment of the class system in Serbia are my reasons for going back" (Marta Popivoda)

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