UNIVERSITY OF NOVA GORICA GRADUATE SCHOOL ...

Figure 28 | Fighters in battle.
On the visual level xPartizani0zauvijekX employs lo-fi moving and still images. The latter are
manipulated so as to appear as if they were moving—white vertical lines are added to give an
impression of an old film strip running (remediation). The images in the memorial depict
resistance fighters engaged in battle, marching through the woods, and scenes of the liberation. At
that it has to be said that it is very difficult, also because of low-resolution images to tell by the
uniforms which formations or Yugoslav units the soldiers in the memorial belonged to.
Presumably they are Yugoslav partisans or at least this is their function in the narrative. At the end
of the video footage is inserted of a man who just broke the shackles on his hands and a Yugoslav
flag waving in the background, the words in the song go:
Trojica od nas toga jutra [There were three of us this morning]
a samo jedan živi [There‘s only one this evening]
al taj nisam ja [But that‘s not me]
grobnica je javna kuća [The cenotaph is a brothel]
The video ends with a photo of Xpartizani0zauvijekX‘s grandfather in officer‘s uniform and the
singer sings:
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