[MGSA-L] Please help us try to save a Yugoslav film archive!

[George Baloglou]

I would like to remind everybody, on this sad occasion, of the following
film and link:

http://cosmosphilly.com/yugoslav-film-archive-reveals-raw-footage-thessalonikis-1917-great-fire/


On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 7:39 PM, Tatjana Aleksic <atatjana at umich.edu> wrote:

> Dear list members,
>
> My apologies for sending out a message that is not directly related to any
> matters Greek, but this is a situation of unusual urgency.
>
>
> Namely, on April 22 the long awaited sale of the largest Yugoslav film
> studios will finally take place. The Avala Film Studios, that in
> Yugoslavia’s heyday, besides hundreds of Yugoslav documentary and feature
> films also produced some of the world's most sumptuous co-productions,
> has been suffering the destiny of its founding country for about three
> decades. The scandalous neglect of Yugoslav cultural heritage, that was the
> subject of the awarded documentary CINEMA KOMUNISTO (2010) by Mila
> Turajlić, has left the Avala Studios without funds and even such basics as
> electricity, let alone any solution for the preservation of film material
> that still lingers in their dusty corridors.
>
> Since the Serbian state is selling the film catalogue with the buildings,
> the entire archive of films produced in these studios will go the way of
> neoliberal devastation of all things unprofitable.
>
> I am the last person to believe that a petition can move mountains, but
> perhaps we can at least raise awareness with someone who can do something
> to help save the cultural heritage of an entire country. Please add your
> valuable vote for the preservation of this vast Yugoslav film archive.
> Spread and share the petition across social networks.
>
>
> The link to the campaign is here:
> http://www.cinemakomunisto.com/avala-film/?utm_source=Master+-+English&utm_campaign=77597dd42a-Grad_izgubljenih_filmova4_13_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_a4074039d6-77597dd42a-433023337
>
>
>
> The direct link to the petition is here:
> http://www.thepetitionsite.com/361/261/305/grad-izgubljenih-filmova-city-of-lost-films/?utm_source=Master+-+English&utm_campaign=77597dd42a-Grad_izgubljenih_filmova4_13_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_a4074039d6-77597dd42a-202730093
>
> Thank you
>
> Tatjana Aleksic
>
> University of Michigan
>
> Comparative and Slavic Literature
>
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> 812 E Washington Str.
>
> Ann Arbor, MI 48109
>
> USA
>
> atatjana at umich.edu
>
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http://www.oswego.edu/~baloglou (1988 - 2008)

http://crystallomath.wordpress.com (2009 - )
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