A communist monument whispers secrets in three voices. You won't forget what it says.
Three-channel video (black and white and color, three-channel sound) commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, for the entrance to exhibition "Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948–1980".
Direction
Turajlić weaponizes museum space as fourth channel.
Sound
Three audio tracks argue, harmonize, collapse.
Cinematography
B&W bleeds into color like ideology into history.
Director
Mila Turajlić
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Spomeniks — these abstract Yugoslav war monuments — have become Instagram catnip, stripped of their antifascist meaning. Turajlić demands you look longer.
The three-channel format mirrors how Yugoslavia itself existed: simultaneously socialist, non-aligned, and dissolving.
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