world
how it came to be.
two chapters · two filmsБОРБА is the word for struggle, for fight. Everyone is given one. This one has a name.
It was found on the first of November 2024, in red neon, on the roof of an old newspaper building in Belgrade. No preparation, no equipment. The name was already in the world.
What grew from it had rules. One post on the first of every month. A film on the eleventh of July. The name found where it already is, or put where it isn’t. Faces, almost always, kept out of the frame. Twenty-two posts and two films later, chapter i closed on a found word. This is how it came to be, in the order it happened.
the word
БОРБА™ It began with a trip. A hard time needs somewhere to go, and the somewhere was Belgrade. The name was already there, waiting to be found. A story never has a perfect beginning. It begins by fighting, and moving forward.
dylan blue. December, the same city, and a trip made to be captured. It is about moving forward, and about something broken that can still be beautiful, something old and lost that can still mean something. Everything in those first two months was found, not made. That would change.
the ritual
pijun. means pawn. In January the ritual began: one post on the first of every month, and from then on none was missed. We all start as pawns, and very few get to the king. Even the one who gets there keeps something inside that wishes it were the pawn again, when life was easy.
jebiga jebiga. February. Not everything is as it seems. When the fight stops and we look at the table, everything seems fine, and maybe for a moment it is. The full picture only comes once the fight continues.
timeless. March. The twenty-eighth of February passes into March, and a person can still stay in February. Time does not stop for our cause; it keeps running, and we choose where we stay.
uspori. means slow down. April, and a station to refuel at. Every now and then the fight refuels, and the light burns longer. It is okay to stop there.
golgotha. May, a walk that ended at a cross. We go to places to fight our hardships, and when we arrive we still may not get what we deserved. The road shapes who we are, and what we hold to be right.
the first film
11.7 June announced a film that did not exist yet. Only a date: the eleventh of July. A БОРБА movie, that’s what the cup says.
БОРБА™ July’s post came straight off the set of the first film. БОРБА isn’t nice. It’s real. And we stay, and we fight, because we have a life that already has a name.
manifesto On the eleventh of July 2025, the first film: a letter to what hurt, written and burned. From here the date belonged to the films.
dylan blue 2.0. August went back to the second post: the same name, eight months later. The first one was found on a walk through the city; this one was built, and broken on purpose. Even the same fights can tell a different story.
balance
balans. The summer of 2025, by the sea, told in alternation: colour, black and white, colour, black and white. What yin and yang is. A БОРБА that lasts has found its balance.
crucifix. October, in a place that feels like home. For some it is a story about a man, for some a lie, for some a god, and for some it is БОРБА. That man went through a fight, as we all do. How we see that man is our own blessing, or our own burden.
exodus. November, autumn. Movement, identity, and hidden messages along the road.
cinema
leap of faith. 20:26 the problem. Winter widened the frame: three months of cinema, with no story attached to them, only the shape of a film. Some months are only a picture.
the closing concept
from the sky. March 2026 opened the end of the chapter, planned as one piece: five posts that connect the universe together and deserve the same space of reality. The snow came unwanted, but it came from the sky, and some things come from the sky to open doors to what is already here on earth.
out of town. April answers March, word for word. To gain light in our own fight we leave things behind in the past, and carry the torch with us to pursue the path.
file not found. May, and nothing. Some months the answer is nothing.
old but gold. June, a bishop’s visit, and a faith that is old but gold. Old fights stay gold, and valuable to us.
lotus. July. A flower that closes returns to the earth and into the mud, only to be born again. We so often want to do things our own way instead of letting nature do its beautiful thing. We want control, and cannot have it. It isn’t natural.
away. On the eleventh of July 2026, a year to the day after the first, the second film. Maybe the mud was never there to bury us. What returns to the earth does not disappear. It finds its way into a new circle.
last weeknd. August: a concert, a city, a goodbye. The twenty-second post closed the series, in Milan. A chapter has to end for the story to continue.
END. The last frame of chapter i, found the way the first word was found. Twenty-two months without a gap, two films, one name.
the silence
then БОРБА went silent.
aug — sep 2026
chapter ii
then БОРБА came back.
sep 2026life’s fight has a name.
