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 t…