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Non-Aligned Newsreels: Fragments from the Debris

(Mila Turajlić, 2023–ongoing) 

Mila Turajlić in person

Ohio Premiere

A person stands at a podium with a laptop in a dark room, watching a large screen displaying two film scenes: film reels and a woman's face.
Oct 23, 2026 4:30 PM
Film/Video Theater

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Join us for a singular live performance examining a trove of forgotten Yugoslav newsreels that Mila Turajlić encountered in her hometown of Belgrade.

Non-Aligned Newsreels: Fragments from the Debris is a live performance that engages with newsreel footage filmed in the wake of political crisis and upheaval to follow the development of the Non-Aligned Movement, the political alliance forged between young nations that sided neither with the US nor the Soviet Union during the Cold War. By weaving together newsreels from Algeria, Mali, Mozambique, and Tanzania, Turajlić’s hybrid film-performance-lecture poetically traces the networks of solidarity that formed between the former Yugoslavia and nations in the throes of decolonial revolutionary struggle. With profound reverence for the footage, people, and histories she encounters in the archive, Turajlić honors the role of the moving image in building global revolutionary movements. (program approx. 70 mins., digital video)

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Non-Aligned Newsreels: Fragments from the Debris, courtesy of the filmmaker.

"For me, working with archives is an act of resistance against erasure. My work creates an archive that will, I hope, allow my generation and future ones to know our stories."
Mila Turajlić

About the filmmaker

Mila Turajlić

Mila Turajlić, born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, is an award-winning filmmaker and archive “artivist” whose works include Cinema Komunisto (2010) and IDFA-winner The Other Side of Everything (2017). Her most recent documentary diptych Non-Aligned and Ciné-Guerrillas: Scenes from the Labudović Reels (2022)—an archival road trip through the birth of the Third World—was described by the New York Times as “a visually arresting inquiry into what it takes to envision a new world.” She is the founder of the Non-Aligned Newsreels research project (nonalignednewsreels.com), an artistic exploration of the orphaned status of film archives made by Yugoslavia in a gesture of “ciné-solidarity” with the non-aligned world.

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Program Support

Unorthodocs 2026 is part of the 2026 FotoFocus Biennial: The Long View.

SUPPORT FOR UNORTHODOCS 2026 PROVIDED BY

FotoFocus

SUPPORT FOR FILM PROGRAMS PROVIDED BY

Rohauer Collection Foundation

WEXNER CENTER PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY

Greater Columbus Arts Council

Ohio Arts Council, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts

CampusParc

The Columbus Foundation

The Ohio State University

Wexner Center Foundation Board

With special thanks to our members

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Non-Aligned Newsreels: Fragments from the Debris

Oct 23, 2026 4:30 PM EST
Film/Video Theater

Advance ticket sale begins for members August 22—join today!

Tickets available to the general public September 4

Free for all audiences with ticket

For ticketing questions please call the Visitor Desk at (614) 292-3535.

A limited number of listening devices are available upon request.

If you have questions about accessibility or require an accommodation to participate in this event, please email accessibility@wexarts.org or call (614) 688-3890. Visit our Accessibility page to learn more.

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