Explorations of the radical film praxis and extensive oeuvre of filmmaker Zelimir Zilnik. Shadow Citizens offers insights into the radical film praxis and extensive oeuvre of filmmaker Zelimir Zilnik (b. 1942). Since his beginnings in the lively amateur film scene of Yugoslavia in the 1960s, Zilnik has made more than fifty films, often in the genre of docudrama. Many of Zilnik's films have anticipated real-world events--the dissolution of Yugoslavia, the economic transition from socialism to a neoliberal order, the annihilation of workers' rights, and wider social erosion related to labor and migration.
The title,
Shadow Citizens, reflects Zilnik's lifelong focus on invisible, suppressed, and under- and misrepresented members of society. As a concept, "shadow citizens" is related to "amateur politics" as a form of political engagement--the imaginative and subversive non-normative knowledge and alternative sensibilities that lie dormant but occasionally push back against politics as usual. Courageous amateurism is prominent in Zilnik's films, both as a concept and as a method, and the texts in this book elaborate on the potential of shadow citizens and the pressures of the amateur undercurrent in emancipatory politics and artistic production. The notion of shadow citizens, conceived as different minorities that are increasingly becoming majorities everywhere, runs through Zilnik's oeuvre, where it is used to imagine a new concept of citizenship that pushes current limits and borders.
Contributors Boris Buden, Greg de Cuir Jr, Ana Janevski, Dijana Jelača, Edit Molnár, Bert Rebhandl, Marcel Schwierin, WHW, Zelimir Zilnik
探索電影導演 Zelimir Zilnik 激進的電影實踐與豐富創作。
《Shadow Citizens》深入探討電影導演 Zelimir Zilnik（生於 1942 年）激進的電影實踐與豐富作品。自 1960 年代在南斯拉夫活躍的業餘電影場景嶄露頭角以來，Zilnik 已製作超過五十部電影，且多半屬於紀錄劇情片（docudrama）類型。Zilnik 的許多電影預見了現實世界的重大事件——南斯拉夫的解體、從社會主義轉向新自由主義秩序的經濟轉型、勞工權利的消滅，以及與勞動和移民相關、更廣泛的社會侵蝕。
《Shadow Citizens》這個書名，反映了 Zilnik 一生對社會中不可見、遭到壓抑，以及受到忽視或錯誤呈現的成員所抱持的關注。作為一個概念，「陰影公民」（shadow citizens）與「業餘政治」（amateur politics）有所關聯，後者是一種政治參與形式——那些沉睡其中、卻偶爾反抗日常政治的想像性、顛覆性、非規範知識與另類感受。勇敢的業餘精神在 Zilnik 的電影中十分突出，既是一種概念，也是一種方法；本書收錄的文章進一步闡述陰影公民的潛力，以及業餘暗流在解放政治與藝術創作中所承受的壓力。陰影公民這個概念，將其理解為在世界各地日益由少數變成多數的不同少數群體，貫穿 Zilnik 的整體創作；在他的作品中，這個概念被用來想像一種新的公民身分，推展現有的界線與疆域。
貢獻者
Boris Buden
Greg de Cuir Jr
Ana Janevski
Dijana Jelača
Edit Molnár
Bert Rebhandl
Marcel Schwierin
WHW
Zelimir Zilnik
What, How & for Whom/WHW (established 1999) is a curatorial collective whose members are Ivet Ćurlin, Ana Devic, Natasa Ilic and Sabina Sabolovic, along with designer and publicist Dejan Krsic.
