Forthcoming event:
Screen School and the Transnational Research Unit of the Department of Media and Communications present:
DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKING – RAW REFLECTIONS OF TIME
ZELIMIR ZILNIK
Ian Gulland Cinema, Goldsmiths College
23rd March 2006, 5 – 7 pm
Zelimir Zilnik reflects back on forty years of making documentary films that capture social and political crises across different decades. Using examples of his work (June Turmoil; Old Timer; Tito for the Second Time Amongst the Serbs), but also the work by Janko Baljak (Anatomy of Pain; Crime that Changed Serbia), Zilnik is interested in documentaries as raw documents of time, juxtaposing them to the dominant representations of recent Serbian, Yugoslav and Balkan history.
Biography:
Zelimir Zilnik (born 1942, based in Novi Sad, Serbia) is one of the most influential filmmakers in the Balkans today. From the late 60s, his socially engaged films and documentaries in former Yugoslavia and his unique visual style earned him critical accolade (The Unemployed, 1968, Best Documentary at the Oberhausen festival, 1968; Early Works,1969, Best Film at Berlin Film Festival), but also censorship in the 70s for his unflinching criticism of the government apparatus. Low budget filmmaking and challenging political themes mark Zilnik’s prolific career, which includes over 40 feature and documentary films. Since the 1980s, he has been developing his unique docu-drama language, which he used throughout 1990s to reflect on political tensions, including EU sanctions, the NATO bombings, and Milosevic’s regime. His power to observe and to unleash compelling narratives out of the lives of ordinary people is the common thread throughout his documentary and docu-drama work, including the 1994 film Tito's Second Time Amongst the Serbs. More recently, his focus has shifted beyond the divided Balkans to question their relationship with the tightening controls of European borders, delving into the heart of issues concerning refugees and migrants, in Fortress Europe (2000), Kenedi Goes Back Home (2003) and Kenedi: Lost and Found (2005).
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