Displaced Film Memories in the post-Yugoslav Context

In this article, I will try to discern a few different stylistic and thematic approaches of memory representation of the former Yugoslavia in the post-Yugoslav context. I will focus on notions of displaced mediated memories that we get from documentary films of the once existing country. A lot has been written on filmic aspects of remembrance in the post-Yugoslav area, the so-called Yugosphere, but not that many studies have concentrated on mediated memories of the diasporic groups outside the area that once constituted Yugoslavia. In order to talk about displaced memories of the former Yugoslavia, I need to establish some ideas of displaced filmmaking, memory conveying and representations of history. I will also present a general scheme of connections between documentary filmmaking and memories in the area of the former federation, and then concentrate on what I perceive to be three different standpoints on filmic remembrances outside the region.

Sanjin Pejković

Sanjin Pejković


Sanjin Pejković is a PhD candidate in Film studies at Lund University, Sweden. He holds an MA in Films Studies from Gothenburg University. His research touches upon film cultures in the area that once constituted former Yugoslavia. Main questions are concerned with topics of representations and (re)constructions of the past, constructions of the national(ist) narratives through films and collective memories in fiction and documentary films after 1989.


What are the main topics/themes of the documentary representations of the Yugoslav past in the region?
Are there any differences – formalistic, narratively based or some other – between regional and diasporic mediated memories?
What might the reasons be for that?

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Bruzzi, Stella. 2006. New Documentary: A Critical Introduction. New York: Routledge.
Loshitzky, Josefa. 2010. Screening Strangers: Migration and Diaspora in Contemporary European Cinema. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

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