Croatian-artist David Maljkovic’s epic film series Scene for New Heritage Trilogy focuses on a group of travellers visiting a memorial park, erected in Petrova Gora, Croatia, for victims of the Second World War under the Communist government of Yugoslavia. As they visit the monument, debate is sparked as to its long-forgotten meaning – it means nothing to them, just as their strange dialect is alien to us. The second film, set 20 years later, features a young boy approaching and looking out from the monument's tower to an empty snow-filled landscape, as if on some spiritual pilgrimage. The third and final film depicts young teenagers milling aimlessly around the central tower; talking, playing and walking around the derelict monument.
Scenes for a New Heritage (2004) follows a group of heritage-seekers to Petrova Gora, a memorial to the victims of the Second World War built in Croatia between 1970 and 1981. Maljkovic has set the scene on 25 May (Tito's birthday) in the year 2045, when the loaded historical background of the location would have been long forgotten. The protagonists emerge from a tinfoil-covered automobile and shout out to each other in 'ganga' , a Croatian folksong. Here, the use of a once suppressed oral tradition is more futuristic than anachronistic.
http://www.cca.rca.ac.uk/againfortomorrow/index.htm
http://www.physicsroom.org.nz/gallery/2007/maljkovic/
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