• On top of a overhead project's stage, someone is making notes in red on a piece of glass. Underneath it, there is a printed text.

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    Press image. Drawing the Archive public program performance-lecture series (September 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: Megan Hoetger.

  • Two people stand behind a long table, each next to one of the two overhead projectors. They both look at things on the table, on which several other printed materials have been laid. The projectors are shining a light behind the two people, but no image is being projected. At the centre of the image, there is a dark grey triangle inside a grey circle, to indicate a

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    Video documentation still. Drawing the Archive public program session one (September 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. Video documentation courtesy of When Site Lost the Plot.

  • Four people stand around a table, on top of which there is an overhead projector and other materials. On the wall, two projections show documents with handwritten notes.

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    Video documentation still. Drawing the Archive public program session one (September 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. Video documentation courtesy of When Site Lost the Plot.

  • Four people stand around a table, on top of which there are two overhead projectors and other materials. On the wall, two projections show documents with handwritten notes.

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    Video documentation still. Drawing the Archive public program session one (September 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. Video documentation courtesy of When Site Lost the Plot.

  • Section of text. The first two lines read

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    Performance-lecture materials. Drawing the Archive public program session one (September 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.

  • A television box has been set on a black plinth. Behind it, there are beige curtains a white wall, onto which a text is being projected.

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    Performance documentation. Drawing the Archive public program session two (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.

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    Video documentation excerpt. Drawing the Archive public program session one (September 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. Video documentation courtesy of When Site Lost the Plot.

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    Video documentation excerpt. Drawing the Archive public program session one (September 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. Video documentation courtesy of When Site Lost the Plot.

A three-part performance-lecture series in which Zone Collective invited members of the public to join them in “collective annotation” sessions intended to open up the materials in the research installation Shadow Zones: Experimental Cinema History in Yugoslavia; or, a Cinema and a History Made and Unmade by Maps. Seeking to move toward an understanding of research as an ongoing set of relational encounters, the sessions dialogically engaged archival materials from the installation, staging them as the materials for moving images on the wall. Discussed topics included the Genre Experimental Film Festival and the Multimedia Center Student Center Zagreb, as well as conceptual and political discussions on models of film distribution. The double action of note-taking and moving image making enacted the multiplicity of ways (hi)stories can be represented.

Sessions were held on:
26 September 2021
3 October 2021
10 October 2021

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).’

Drawing the Archive was staged over three consecutive weekends between September and October 2021 as part of the public program accompanying the research installation Shadow Zones: Experimental Cinema History 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.

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