Konstrakta and Alta Banka: Figures Carry Cash Out
An animation of tiny figures carrying money out of a bank building accompanied the song Mekano, and Konstrakta named no names from the stage.
On the video wall behind Konstrakta and her band Zemlja gruva on Friday evening, November 6, at mts Dvorana in Belgrade, tiny figures walked out of a bank building carrying money, and kept carrying it until the total reached 300 million euros. The animation ran during the song “Mekano,” and nothing was said about it from the stage.
The line that turned the visual into news was added by someone else. A user on X posted a clip from the concert with this comment:
“When Konstrakta gives a business presentation for Alta Banka!”
The clip has circulated online since last night, and media outlets picked up the comment as a headline.
What does the song “Mekano” say on its own?
The song describes a married couple who work only to survive, yet the same money pays for their holidays, their clothes and their children’s food. The chorus is a breathless list of actions: “We go, we work, we go, we work, we spend, we work, we spend, we work, you and me on the soft, not a shadow under the moonlight, not a trace left behind, soft, damn it.”
“Mekano” is part of the project “Triptih,” which also includes “In corpore sano” and “Nobl.” Konstrakta developed the visual concept of “Triptih” with Ana Rodic and Maja Uzelac, and Uzelac also directed the video. Who exactly made the animation shown at Dvorana cannot be determined from the available information.
Why Alta Banka?
The link came from the audience, not the performer. Konstrakta never said the name of the bank. The connection rests on dates: on November 2, Alta Banka owner Davor Macura and two employees were arrested on suspicion of illegally taking money out of the bank’s vault. The damage is reported as about 45.5 billion dinars, or roughly 390 million euros. These are suspicions of the authorities, not established guilt.
The figures do not fully match. The animation stopped at 300 million euros, reports on the arrests mention about 390 million, and our earlier article on the investigation cited 370 million euros through the Alta Pay service. Large state companies did business with the bank, among them Elektroprivreda Srbije, Telekom and Elektromreza Srbije, which raised the public question of how much public money was exposed.
What do we know about the concert itself?
The performance was announced as early as May 27, 2026, as a “Belgrade concert biennale,” with a slot at mts Dvorana on November 6. It was scheduled months before the arrests, so the comparison with the case was made on the spot, in the heads of those watching. Whether the animation was changed after the arrests cannot be determined from the available information.
That is also why the scene held up without explanation. A song about couples who work in order to spend, and leave no trace, was given an image of money leaving a building, and how much that image said about a bank and how much about the song was something each viewer decided for themselves.
