Reframing Space: Film as History, Dr Milja Radovic

Reframing Space: Film as History is the Project led by PI Dr Milja Radovic at the University of Vienna which investigates the relationship between film and history. The goal of the Project is to advance scientific research on the ways in which film can be studied as a historical document, primary rather than secondary source, by focusing on film language through the concept of frame. 

This is an interdisciplinary Project that looks at the documentary film of the Yugoslav space in the period 1896-1939, focusing on the innovations of early pioneers and their depiction of ethnic and religious communities in war and peace, the negotiation of on-screen and off-screen space in the masterpieces of early cinema. 

The Project aims to expand our understanding of the past, memory, and cinematic space. The International Symposium Spaces of Memory (16-17 March 2023) is the first step in this direction, advancing how we speak about historical film, religion and film, and the cinema of poetry.