ŽELIMIR ŽILNIK

Želimir Žilnik (1942) is the author of over 50 feature and documentary films. Since the beginnings of his professional filmmaking career, he has had inclinations towards the topics which involve social, political and economic criticism of everyday life. Žilnik’s film opus has been presented in many international retrospectives (USA, Argentina, Portugal, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Greece, Turkey, France). Some of Žilnik’s video works have been included in the collections of certain European art centres (Kontakt Collection, Vienna; Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection, Vienna; Centre Pompidou Collection, Paris; Museum für Moderne Kunst – MMK, Frankfurt; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus).