• Rectangular collage with three sections, each a triangle. At the top, in black-and-white, a photograph shows the top of a person's head and the top of a film projector. The middle section is made out of sections of three different word documents. The left one shows a text highlighted in blue, the middle one a diagram which leads to the word

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    Event announcement. 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. Design by Karoline Świeżyński.

  • Ground level view of building front, with a glass door and a glass floor to ceiling window with letterbox. On the floor, window side, there is a square light box, in which

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    Exhibition installation view. 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: Quenton Miller, courtesy of When Site Lost the Plot.

  • Small indoor space with large beige curtain. Next to the curtain, there is a large white textile with a printed diagram hanging from near the ceiling. On each side of the curtains, there is one television box on a plinth. Across, two overhead projectors are projecting on the opposite wall. At the front, there is a table with other printed materials.

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    Exhibition installation view. 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: Quenton Miller, courtesy of When Site Lost the Plot.

  • A grey curtain occupies two thirds of the image. To the left, a table with books and other printed materials is visible. An image and some text is being projected on the wall next to it.

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    Exhibition installation view. 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: Quenton Miller, courtesy of When Site Lost the Plot.

  • In a dark room, two overhead projectors project two images. On the left, an old document on beige paper. On the right, a blue photograph with a close-up of a person's face and some text in black around it.

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    Exhibition installation view. 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: Quenton Miller, courtesy of When Site Lost the Plot.

  • Overhead projector, shining a strong light towards its stage. Behind it, there is large beige curtain and a white textile with a printed diagram hanging from near the ceiling. In front of the curtain, there is one television box on a plinth.

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    Exhibition installation view. 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: Quenton Miller, courtesy of When Site Lost the Plot.

  • Table seen from above. Laid on the table are several photographs, printed texts, booklets and a few old photo slides.

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    Exhibition installation view. 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: Quenton Miller, courtesy of When Site Lost the Plot.

  • Table seen from above. Laid on the table are several photographs and other printed material.

    sz03b-quenton-miller.jpeg

    Exhibition installation view. 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: Quenton Miller, courtesy of When Site Lost the Plot.

  • On a table with black cloth, two transparency sheets with black text have been left on top of a white booklet. The title of the right transparency sheet is

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    Exhibition installation view. 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: Quenton Miller, courtesy of When Site Lost the Plot.

  • Table seen from above. On the table, there is a tablet on which the image of a masculine-presenting person gesticulating with their left hand can be seen. There are subtitles on the image. A set of headphones has been connected to the device, and lays on the table next to it. Other books and printed material can also be seen on the table.

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    Exhibition installation view. 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: Quenton Miller, courtesy of When Site Lost the Plot.

  • Small indoor space with large beige curtain. Next to the curtain, there is a large white textile with a printed diagram hanging from near the ceiling. A group of people, either sitting or standing up, faces the direction of two overhead projectors. There is also a table with printed material on top.

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    Post-screening discussion. Cinema for Houseboats public program film night (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.

  • A wall text appears at the bottom of a wall; the first line appears on the wall, with the remaining of the text on the beige floor. To the left, a white plinth remains empty. The text reads

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    Exhibition installation view. 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: Quenton Miller, courtesy of When Site Lost the Plot.

  • sz-walkthrough.mp4

    Exhibition walkthrough. 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.

  • shadow-zones-handout.pdf [pdf, 230.02 KB] 

A research installation by Zone Collective presenting materials from Croatian and Slovenian perspectives on Yugoslav experimental film histories and their constructions of Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav identity. Including a wide range of newly translated archival materials alongside images, conversations and film clips, the installation spatializes the dynamic sets of discursive, personal, and infrastructural relations between actors, organizations and networks active in the region from the early 1960s up until today. In doing so, it traces lines of flight that moved Zone Collective from Zagreb to Ljubljana and back, taking in stories of official cultural repositories and their policies, of heritage (de-)regulation, and of forgotten media archives and their caretakers.

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).’

Shadow Zones was commissioned by the Amsterdam-based project space When Site Lost the Plot (2021-2023) where it was on view 15 July - 16 October 2021. Exhibition design by Karoline Świeżyński.

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