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Black Film

Black Film
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    • Black Film
    • Crni film
  • 1971
  • 16 mm film transferred to video, b&w, sound
  • 14min, 49sec
One night, Želimir Zilnik picks up ten homeless men from the streets of Novi Sad and brings them home. While they enjoy his family’s hospitality, Zilnik tries to “solve the homeless problem”—bringing along the film camera as a witness. He talks to different social services, ordinary citizens, even the police. Everybody closes their eyes to the “problem.” This film depicts the misery about abstract humanism. It is a reckoning with anarcho-liberalism, with false avant-gardism, with social demagogy, with left-wing factions. The author sees this film as an example of the filmmaker’s exploitation of other’s misfortune, believing as they do that they belong to a higher social class than the victims. WHW