-
cfh01a-aram-lee.jpg
Cinema for Houseboats I: Vlado Kristl public program (October 2021). Zone Collective (Kirila Cvetkovska and Megan Hoetger), Shadow Zones: Experimental Cinema History in Yugoslavia; or, a Cinema and a History Made and Unmade by Maps, When Site Lost the Plot, Amsterdam, July - October 2021. Photo: Aram Lee, courtesy of When Site Lost the Plot.
-
cfh01b-aram-lee.jpg
Cinema for Houseboats I: Vlado Kristl public program (October 2021). Zone Collective (Kirila Cvetkovska and Megan Hoetger), Shadow Zones: Experimental Cinema History in Yugoslavia; or, a Cinema and a History Made and Unmade by Maps, When Site Lost the Plot, Amsterdam, July - October 2021. Photo: Aram Lee, courtesy of When Site Lost the Plot.
-
cfh03a.jpg
-
cfh03b.jpg
-
cfh03c.jpg
A site-responsive DIY outdoor screening program, which featured screenings of Yugoslav/West German/Croatian filmmaker Vlado Kristl’s early animation works — the very works that would send him into political exile in 1964. Kristl’s practice raises questions around the shakey classificatory lines delineating experimental, amateur, avant-garde, underground and so forth within the context of Yugoslav film; as well as around conceptions of geopolitical identity that make and unmake one’s life, just as they make and unmake cinema and its histories. Staged on a floating playground on Amsterdam’s Westerdokdijk, the screening took inspiration from “urban action” media events staged in the late 1970s, over ten years after Kristl’s departure from Zagreb, and re-configured the projection set-up in response to Amsterdam, a city built on water.
Zone Collective is a collaborative research platform established in 2016 by independent cultural practitioner Kirila Cvetkovska and historian-curator Megan Hoetger as a space to intercede into historiographic conventions for understanding cultural production in geopolitical sites marked by their grey zone ‘border status(es).’
Cinema for Houseboats was staged on 14 October 2021 as the closing event for the public program accompanying the research installation Shadow Zones: A History of Experimental Cinema in Yugoslavia; or, a Cinema and a History Made and Unmade by Maps, which was on view at When Site Lost The Plot, Amsterdam 15 July - 16 October 2021.