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CENTAR

experimental / documentary, 48 min - 2018

A vast complex of corridors, atriums and halls: a congress center made to host thousands now stands almost abandoned. Its architecture still communicates a former idea of the future, while the materials reveal its current state. Through their relentless effort, the maintenance workers shoulder the duty of restoring the space to what it was imagined to be. Their movements are repetitive, unison but also their own.

Sava Centar is a congress space completed in 1978. in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. It hosted hundreds of international meetings, including World Bank summits and a conference of the Non Aligned Movement. After the breakup of Yugoslavia, its capacities gradually became obsolete. At the time of the filming, it was awaiting a privatization and commercial reconstruction.