Non-Aligned & Ciné-Guerrillas: Scenes from the Labudović Reels
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Non-Aligned & Ciné-Guerrillas: Scenes from the Labudović Reels is a documentary diptych of two feature-length films that take us on an archival road trip through the birth of the Third World project, based on unseen 35mm materials filmed by Stevan Labudović, the cameraman of Yugoslav President Tito.
Non-Aligned re-traces the birth of the Non-Aligned movement, examining how a global project of political emancipation was constituted by the cinematic image. Ciné-Guerrillas plunges us into the media battle that played out during the Algerian war for independence where cinema was mobilized as a weapon of political struggle against colonialism. The films are part of Non-Aligned Newsreels, a long-term research project re-activating forgotten archives of 1960s liberation movements and newly-independent countries in Africa filmed by Yugoslav cameramen. It is based on a little known film archive kept in Belgrade, the former capital of Yugoslavia. Filmed between 1959 and 1975 these materials - made for Algeria, Mali, Ethiopia, Tanzania and Mozambique - have been digitized as part of the project. Started in 2015, it has evolved into a series of performance lectures, video installations and exhibitions, research articles and online content. More information on the research project and the films is available at the Non-Aligned Newsreels project platform.
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