Hybrid Form and the Deconstruction of Myths

The text examines how the formal principles of the hybrid documentary Fiume o morte! (Igor Bezinović, 2025) relativise and dismantle the fascist myth of power and the mechanisms of spectacle that sustain it. It argues that the film’s hybrid form is its political starting point, which blurs the boundaries between fiction and documentary and thereby questions the relationship between reality and representation, establishing reconstruction as a means of deconstructing the ideological-aesthetic apparatuses of fascism.

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