The international symposium “The Avant-Garde Does Not Surrender: Cinema of Želimir Žilnik”, dedicated to the work of this famous Serbian filmmaker, will be held on November 4th this year at the Harriman Institute at the University Colombia in the United States of America.
The organizer of the event is Aleksandar Bošković, Co-Deputy Director of the East Central European Center at the Harriman Institute, and the conference is free and open to the public.
The announcement points out that Žilnik has been part of the avant-garde of socially and politically engaged film in Europe since the 1960s, as well as that his rich oeuvre includes more than 60 short and feature films.
Conference participants will be: Tatjana Aleksić, Petra Belc, Vladislav Beronja, Greg de Cuir Jr., Amir Husak, Ana Janevski, Dijana Jelača, Nataša Kovačević, Pavle Levi, Dušan Radunović, Jasmina Tumbas, Želimir Žilnik.
The Harriman Institute at Columbia University is one of the world’s leading academic institutions for the study of Russia, Eurasia, and East and Central Europe.
More details can be found at https://harriman.columbia.edu/event/the-avant-garde-does-not-surrender-cinema-of-zelimir-zilnik/