Agenda > Reclaiming Community in Yugoslav Socialist Ruins: Dane Komljen’s All the Cities of the North
22 November 2025

Reclaiming Community in Yugoslav Socialist Ruins: Dane Komljen’s All the Cities of the North

Conference presentation by Nikola Radić
ASEEES Annual Convention, Washington, D.C.

Dane Komljen’s feature All the Cities of the North (2016), an unconventional docudrama centred on three men dwelling in the ruins of a Yugoslav socialist-era vacation resort, weaves an intricate web of observations on community, dwelling and architecture. This paper proposes to demonstrate how the narrative and the locations of the main plotline, on the one hand, and the film’s oneiric and essayistic sequences dedicated to architecture and self-organization, on the other hand, articulate a rumination on community by mirroring the micro-utopia of the three men in real manifestations of Yugoslav architecture and its associative transcontinental linkages.

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