Nuovi orizzonti. Costruzione e rappresentazione del paesaggio nella Iugoslavia del secondo dopoguerra

At the end of World War II, the central government of the Federal and Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia initiated the construction of new architectures and cities. These activities were paralleled by the production of a considerable amount of audio-visual documentation, which besides recording the accomplishments, was intended to provide them with social, economical and political meaning. Feature and short films, animated works and documentaries therefore contributed to transforming the landscape and its images through an intricate process of construction, which Alain Roger has aptly labelled as “artialisation”. The current research draws on the audio-visual documentation produced between the 1950s and 1980s, and now held in the Croatian Film Library in Zagreb, to retrace the most significant moments in the process of constructing the new “socialist” landscape of Zagreb. The study brings out the meaning of architectural and urban production to the nation under examination, as well as the general role of audio-visual documents as a source in the study of architecture, cities and landscapes.