THIS IS SERBIA CALLING - BELGRADE'S UNDERGROUND RESISTANCE
Radio B92 was the former Yugoslavia's premier underground radio station under the rule of Slobodan Milosovic and the wars in the Balkans.
Treated as traitors and subversives, they were repeatedly forced off the airwaves by the government, but managed to keep broadcasting until Milosevic was overthrown.
A workshop/event in Glasgow asks: can a radio station be an effective model of resistance?
How can it fight back when the government is waging a campaign of nationalist violence and internal repression?
And what happens when the authorities cut off the signal and the bombs start falling on your city?
* 7.oopm Introduction
* 7.3opm Film screening 'See You in the Next War' (with intermission)
Doug Aubrey, Glasgow-based film maker, will screen his two-part documentary of Radio B92's struggle.
* 9.3opm Discussion
To discuss B92's impact and legacy are:
Matthew Collin, author of 'This is Serbia Calling'
Doug Aubrey, Glasgow-based film maker of 'See You in the Next War'
Gordan Paunovic of B92
Derek Holzer, sound & radio artist with a background in free radio, net.radio and streaming media technologies.
* Followed by Launch of the 2nd edition of Matthew Collin's book 'This is Serbia Calling: Rock 'n' Roll Radio and Belgrade's Underground Resistance' (soon to be the subject of a Hollywood feature film)
* lo.3opm Live DJ set from Belgrade's best-known, B92's Gordan Paunovic
http://www.b92.net
Wednesday 1st December
7pm onwards
FREE event at CCA upstairs bar
350 Sauchiehall St., Glasgow, G2 3JD
(bar open throughout)
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'See You in the Next War':
A chemical generation war story
A film that's more Plane-spotting than Train spotting: a rockumentary portrait of the lives of a generation who have grown up, fought, resisted and simply survived a decade of war in the Balkans. A generation who fully embraced the punk and DIY ethos and who refused to be bullied either by an oppressive regime, or by the bombs of NATO.
Humans against killing sounds like junkies against dope:
See You in the Next War is an-all digital documentary feature that tells a story about the war in Yugoslavia from the perspective of the staff, friends and listeners of the rebel radio station, Belgrade radio B92.
Fuck them and their law:
Filmed both outside and inside Serbia over 18 months, See You In the Next War is both a shocking and at times shockingly absurd portrayal of life both during and in between war-time.
With a musical sound-track that includes contributions from Serbia's top bands and DJ's, See You in the Next War is genuinely independent, guerrilla film making at its most daring, provocative and passionate.
A must-see for anyone who believes that there always is another side to any war, other than the one portrayed by the mainstream global media or by state propaganda.
Accept NO Borders!:
See You in the Next War is a film that not only talks-the-talks, but also walks-the-walk in its search for the truth. It is a celebration of dissent and reaffirmation of the kind of free-spirit that believes that there is a need in times of crisis to accept no borders in search of the truth.
The revolution will be televised and stage-managed:
Filming inside Serbia was undertaken both covertly by Director/Producer Doug Aubrey with a small digital camcorder and also with the co-operation of the staff of the B92 TV dept and includes extracts from Zoran Kesic's remarkable street-level footage of the October 5th uprising.
Adopting a stylish and innovative format, that fully embraces the creative potential of digital film making; See You in the Next War reaches its spectacular (and contradictory) climax with the popular up-rising against the Milosevic regime and the return of some of the staff to the original B92 station in central Belgrade, for the first time since the NATO bombing and the station's take-over.
See You in the Next War:
The film's concluding moments are both a sobering warning to anyone in the west who believes that the war in the Balkans is over and also a timely reminder of the need for a genuinely independent media voice to continue to be heard not just in Serbia, but world-wide.
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http://www.yourmachines.org
DEREK HOLZER
is a sound and radio artist with a background in free radio, net.radio and streaming media technologies. He was involved with some of the first net.radio experiments in Hungary (Pararadio) and Czech Republic (Radio Jeleni). He has also worked with Re-lab, a net.radio group in Latvia who gradually shifted their focus towards broader issues of 'acoustic spaces' and networked audio communications. Recently, his work has focused on capturing and transforming small, unnoticed sounds from various natural and urban locations, on the electromagnetic resonances in our everyday environment, as well as the use of free software such as Linux and Pure-Data.
At the CCA for "Your Machines", for future and currently available projects see:
http://www.umatic.nl/info_derek.html
http://www.yourmachines.org
http://www.radiojeleni.cz
http://www.pararadio.hu
