The People Are Present: Films of Želimir Žilnik

September 28–29, 2023

Celebrated Yugoslav filmmaker Želimir Žilnik, who, since the 1960s, has been at the forefront of politically engaged cinema in Europe, joins us in person for two programs of his docu-fiction films.

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  • Black Film

  • Pirika on Film

  • Oldtimer

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Past Films

  • Oldtimer

    • Friday, September 29 7 PM
    Želimir Žilnik
    Yugoslavia, 1989

    Želimir Žilnik reinvents the road movie with an aged rocker who travels through Yugoslavia and becomes involved in unexpected turmoil: Milošević’s “antibureaucratic revolution.” With Black Film, a short film made with a group of homeless men.

    Želimir Žilnik, Pavle Levi, and Antje Postema in Conversation

  • Pirika on Film

    • Thursday, September 28 7 PM
    Želimir Žilnik
    Serbia, 2013

    A biographical video essay on Pirika, a strong-willed woman living in Serbia, made forty-four years after she appeared as a child actor in two films directed by Želimir Žilnik. With four of Žilnik’s innovative short documentary films about immigrant and refugee experiences.

    Introduced by Želimir Žilnik, with Pavle Levi and Djordje Popović