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of memorialisation and also her interpretive framework: the referential framework/perspective is
(the grief over) the collapse of the country and the tragic wars that came in its aftermath. The then
video gives shots of tanks rushing through villages, shelling, and images of demolished cities.
Footage showing people running for shelter is followed by footage showing bodies being taken
away after an explosion in the streets (of a Bosnian town?).
Figure 19 | Dubrovnik under fire, mejerchold‘s video.
The verses: ―For the death under the summer rain,‖ are dubbed over a scene showing a body being
dragged into a van to be taken away. At this point, the textual and visual coincidence culminate in
an increasingly tragic tone. This is followed by footage of tanks at the barricades (in Slovenia) and
shots of torn-down minarets. As the song draws to its end, the original video footage (that was
time and again seen on television) switches to a night-vision shot from an aircraft bomber aiming
at, firing and hitting a target (presumably the NATO bombing of Serbia), to which the lyric of the
song is synched: ―For the night under the leaden rain/for not being there for you/forgive me, my
sister Yugoslavia.‖ To the last verses of the song: ―For death under the summer rain/For not
sending in help/Forgive me, my sister Yugoslavia,‖ shots are edited of panic in the streets during
shelling and the demolishing of the Mostar Bridge. The video ends with two girls running away.
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