“... IT IS NOT ONLY A PRIVATE MATTER, ...”, ABOUT THE WORK OF ŽELIMIR ŽILNIK

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In the frame of a project dedicated to the 40-eth anniversary of the first public screening of a Želimir Žilnik film at the Short and documentary film festival in Belgrade, in 1967, there was a screening program, as well as an exhibition installment, a public discussion of the contextual aspects of his social and cultural work, and a concert of one of the bands that did music for his films. Promotion of the work of Želimir Žilnik at the festival in belgrade represents the beginning of engagement on the realization of DVD about the work of Želimir Žilnik. The project is being realised in cooperation between the Playground production company, Center for new media_kuda.org and the Student Cultural Center in Belgrade, which is part of long term research project “The Continuous Art Class” dedicated to exploration of art and social practices of Novi Sad neo-avantgarde of 1960's and 1970's (http://www.kuda.org/?q=node/541)

Program will be presented due to the following schedule:

MARCH 29th, 2007, Thursday, 21:00, Cinema of the Cultural Center of Belgrade
Screening of Žilnik's documentary films from 1967 and 1968

A NEWSREEL ON VILLAGE YOUTH IN WINTER (Žurnal o omladini na selu, zimi)
LITTLE PIONEERS (Pioniri maleni mi smo vojska prava, svakog dana ničemo ko zelena trava)
THE UNEMPLOYED (Nezaposleni ljudi)
JUNE TURMOIL (Lipanjska gibanja)
BLACK FILM (Crni film)

MARCH 29th, 2007, Thursday, 22:00, Cinema of the Cultural Center of Belgrade
A public discussion about Žilnik's documentary movies, with participants:

Karpo Godina
Milan Vlajčić
Petar Jončić
Miroljub Stojanović
Stevan Vuković, moderator of debate

MARCH 31th, 2007, Saturday, 19:00, Gallery of Student Cultural Center Belgrade
An exhibition related to contextual aspects of Žilniks work

MARCH 31th, 2007, Saturday, 20:00, Gallery of Student Cultural Center Belgrade
A screening of Žilnik's recent documentary (Soap in Danube Opera)

MARCH 31th, 2007, Saturday, 21:00, Student Cultural Center Belgrade
Concert of the Obojeni Program band

More about the movies:

A NEWSREEL ON VILLAGE YOUTH IN WINTER (Žurnal o omladini na selu, zimi)
Yugoslavia, 1967, 15 min, 35 mm, black and white
written and directed by: Želimir Žilnik
camera: Mihajlo Jovanović - Ciga
sound: Dragan Stanojević
edited by: Dragan Mitrović, Slobodan Mladenović
production: Neoplanta film, Novi Sad
Awards at the Short and documentary film festival in Belgrade, 1967: “Žaromet” of the film magazine Ekran and Award of youth jury

LITTLE PIONEERS (Pioniri maleni mi smo vojska prava, svakog dana ničemo ko zelena trava)
Yugoslavia, 1968, 18 min, 35 mm, black and white
written and directed by: Želimir Žilnik
camera: Miodrag Jakšić Fandjo
sound: Dragan Stanojević
edited by: Dragan Mitrović
production: Neoplanta film, Novi Sad
Award at the Short and documentary film festival in Belgrade, 1968: Silver Medal “Belgrade”

THE UNEMPLOYED (Nezaposleni ljudi)
Yugoslavia, 1968, 13 min, 35mm
written and directed by: Želimir Žilnik
camera: Petar Latinović
edited by: Milica Poličević
production: Neoplanta Film, Novi Sad
festivals and awards: Won an ex aequo Grand Prix of the city of Oberhausen 1968, and Silver Medal “Belgrade” at the Short and documentary film festival in Belgrade, 1968

JUNE TURMOIL (Lipanjska gibanja)
Yugoslavia, 1968, 10 min
directed by: Želimir Žilnik
camera: Dušan Ninkov
sound: Bogdan Tirnanić, Branko Vučičević
edited by: Miodrag Petrović - Šarlo
production: Neoplanta film, Novi Sad
awards: Spezialdiplom der Festspielleitung der Wesdeutsche Kurzfilmtage fur den verkannten Film der XV. Wesdeutschen Kurzfilmtage, Oberhausen, 1969.

BLACK FILM (Crni film)
Yugoslavia, 1971, 14 min, 35 mm, black and white
directed by: Želimir Žilnik
camera: Karpo Aćimović Godina
sound: Dušan Ninkov
editor: Kaća Stefanović
production: Neoplanta film, Novi Sad
Award: Award of the critique and award of the evangelistic jury, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, 1971.

MARCH 31, 2007, Saturday, 20:00, Gallery of SKC Belgrade
Screening of the movie: SOAP IN DANUBE OPERA
2006, 70 min
authors: Ljilja Dinić, Sofija Petaković, Zdravko Pranjić, Ljubiša Astepanović, Muhamed Eljšani, Vitomir Pucar, Salji Hasani, Zoran Borovac, Fjurim Eljšani, Vladimir Savčić, Aljuš Heljšani, Muhamed Maroti, Bojan Grčić, Senad Mutapi, Milan Janić
editing: Branislav Klašnja, Marin Malešević
art director and mentor of video workshop: Želimir Žilnik
production: Terra film, Novi Sad