{"id":9428,"date":"2023-10-06T12:00:59","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T12:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=9428"},"modified":"2025-01-08T21:39:48","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T03:39:48","slug":"zelimir-zilnik-marble-ass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2023\/10\/06\/zelimir-zilnik-marble-ass\/","title":{"rendered":"\u017delimir \u017dilnik: MARBLE ASS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Friday, October 6, 6:00 p.m.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Z\u030celimir Z\u030cilnik, MARBLE ASS, 1995. Courtesy of the artist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For more than 50 years, renowned Serbian director \u017delimir \u017dilnik has produced a body of trailblazing and politically committed films. A key member of Yugoslavia\u2019s rebellious Black Wave film movement of the 1960s and a pioneer of docufiction, \u017dilnik\u2019s perspective was shaped by atrocity at the hands of Nazis, Yugoslavia\u2019s turbulent history and dissolution, and periods of exile. Over the years, he has used his camera to explore the experiences of outsiders of all kinds, depicting complicated social and political realities from a distinctly human perspective.<\/p>\n

Join us for three programs that cover the range of \u017dilnik’s career, including his essential early SHORT FILMS (Thursday, October 5, 6:00 p.m.), mid-career feature MARBLE ASS (1995), and recent award-winner, LOGBOOK SERBISTAN (2015) (Saturday, October 7, 1:00 p.m.).<\/p>\n

MARBLE ASS<\/strong>
\n1995, \u017delimir \u017dilnik, FR Yugoslavia, 87 minutes
\nIn Serbian with English subtitles, Format: Beta video transferred to Digital video<\/p>\n

Winner of the Teddy for best feature at the 1995 Berlin Film Festival, MARBLE ASS is \u017dilnik\u2019s breakthrough celebration of queer life in former Yugoslavia, shot during the Balkans War. Staring the late\u00a0Merlinka as a version of herself, the film follows the lives of Merlin and Sanela\u2014two trans women who turn to sex work as a means of financial security and an act of political resistance against the militant machismo of wartime culture. Their routine is shattered when Johnny, Marlin\u2019s ex-lover, is decommissioned from the army and arrives at her house full of barely repressed rage. Referencing Paul Morrisy\u2019s FLESH (1968) and Billy Wilder\u2019s SOME LIKE IT HOT (1959), MARBLE ASS is a radically exhilarating mix of political allegory, screwball humor, empathy, and Belgrade\u2019s \u201990s underground.<\/p>\n

Presented in partnership with The Center for Eastern European and Russian\/Eurasian Studies at the University of Chicago, the University of Illinois at Chicago\u2019s (UIC) School of Literatures, Cultural Studies, and Linguistics and UIC\u2019s School of Art and Art History.<\/em><\/p>\n

About the artist<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u017delimir \u017dilnik\u00a0is an artist-filmmaker from Novi Sad, Serbia. He has made more than 50 feature and short films which have been exhibited internationally. \u017dilnik has been the subject of major career film retrospectives at Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2019; Cinemateca Argentina, 2018; Mar del Plata International Film Festival, 2017; Anthology Film Archive, New York, and Harvard Film Archive, 2017; Ankara International Film Festival, 2016; Doclisboa, 2015; Arsenal, Berlin, 2015; CINUSP, S\u00e3o Paulo, 2014; Thessaloniki International Film Festival, 2014; and more. His work has also been featured at Documenta, Kassel; Venice Biennale; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien; Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art; Museo Universitario Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Renaissance Society, Chicago; National Gallery of Art, Washington DC; Edith-Russ-Haus f\u00fcr Medienkunst, Oldenburg\u2019 Lentos Art Museum, Linz; Museum f\u00fcr Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; Deutsches Historisches Museum and Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome; among others.<\/p>\n

Related Events<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u017dELIMIR \u017dILNIK: SHORT FILMS\u00a0(Thursday, October 5, 6:00 p.m.)
\nLOGBOOK SERBISTAN (Saturday, October 7, 1:00 p.m.)<\/p>\n

Accessibility<\/strong><\/p>\n

CATE events are presented with real-time captions (CART). Hearing loops, wheelchair accessibility, and companion seating are also available at the Gene Siskel Film Center. For other accessibility requests, please visit saic.edu\/access or write cate@saic.edu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Friday, October 6, 6:00 p.m. For more than 50 years, renowned Serbian director \u017delimir \u017dilnik has produced a body of trailblazing and politically committed films. A key member of Yugoslavia\u2019s rebellious Black Wave film movement of the 1960s and a pioneer of docufiction, \u017dilnik\u2019s perspective was shaped by atrocity at the hands of Nazis, Yugoslavia\u2019s […]<\/p>\n

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