Zelimir Zilnik: Shadow Citizens

Explorations of the radical film praxis and extensive oeuvre of filmmaker Želimir Žilnik.

Shadow Citizens offers insights into the radical film praxis and extensive oeuvre of filmmaker Želimir Žilnik (b. 1942). Since his beginnings in the lively amateur film scene of Yugoslavia in the 1960s, Žilnik has made more than fifty films, often in the genre of docudrama. Many of Žilnik's films have anticipated real-world events—the dissolution of Yugoslavia, the economic transition from socialism to ...