Room Without a View: Inside the Processing of Yugoslav Television Broadcasts (2016)

An experimental video documentation of and a research guide to the ongoing (re)archiving project of OSA’s Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian television broadcast collection from 1993-1999. This project film offers an insight into OSA’s non-linear, self-reflexive and transparent cataloging method, which aims at revealing epistemic questions and methodological dilemmas emerging during the work, catalogers’ behavior, and relevant curatorial answers and decisions resulting from the contemplations of the project staff members. Using archival footage from the collection to illustrate some of these issues, B-rolls on a contemporary archival environment and innovatively edited interviews, the film reflects the internal pace, the fragmented, often disrupted and deliberative-iterative nature of the project.