Past Film/Video | Documentaries

Marble Ass

(Želimir Žilnik, 1995)

Preceded by Little Pioneers (Želimir Žilnik, 1968)

Three people sit on the floor of a living room as one of them holds a long balloon in their palm.
Oct 20, 2023 7:00 PM
Film/Video Theater

$7 members and adults 55 and over
$9 general public
$5 students

Enjoy snacks with your movie
Heirloom Café reopens at 6 PM until this screening begins, serving gourmet popcorn plus beer, wine, and other refreshments. You can also find packaged snacks in the Wexner Center Store.

ACCESSIBILITY
We strive to host inclusive, accessible events that enable all individuals, including individuals with disabilities, to engage fully. If you have questions about accessibility or require an accommodation such as CART captioning or ASL interpretation to participate in this event, please email accessibility@wexarts.org or call (614) 688-3890. Requests made by two weeks in advance will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the Wexner Center for the Arts will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.

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Trans women in war-torn Belgrade and poverty-stricken children in 1960s Yugoslavia are the subjects of these two films from director Želimir Žilnik.

"Marble Ass, the winner of the Teddy Award for queer filmmaking at the 1995 Berlin Film Festival, is one of the first films anywhere in post-socialist Europe to deal openly with the complexities of queer culture. It’s paired with Little Pioneers, Žilnik’s early-career study of disadvantaged children living on the outskirts of society. Communities are formed in solidarity across sexual and class lines, amid the backdrop of generational social upheaval and the fires of war.”
—guest curator Greg de Cuir Jr. 

In Serbian and Serbo-Croatian with English subtitles. (105 mins., digital video)

See the complete Retrospetive: Želimir Žilnik lineup.

IMAGE CAPTION 
Marble Ass, courtesy of the filmmaker.

"They are the people who should be given a medium [to] express themselves … by communicating their own attitudes or their feeling of being forgotten."
Želimir Žilnik

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FILM/VIDEO PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY
National Endowment for the Arts
Ohio Humanities

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY
Rohauer Collection Foundation

WEXNER CENTER PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY
Ohio Department of Development
Greater Columbus Arts Council
The Wexner Family
Institute of Museum and Library Services
Ohio Arts Council
CampusParc
Ohio State’s Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme
The Columbus Foundation
Nationwide Foundation
Vorys, Sater, Seymour, and Pease

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY
Mike and Paige Crane
Axium Packaging
Nancy Kramer
Ohio State Energy Partners
Ohio History Fund/Ohio History Connection
Larry and Donna James
Bruce and Joy Soll
Jones Day
Alex and Renée Shumate

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A row of men use logs and other objects to knock down the wall of a decaying building.
Past Film/Video

The Old School of Capitalism

(Želimir Žilnik, 2009)

Preceded by Throwing off the Yolks of Bondage (Želimir Žilnik, 1996)
Thu, Oct 19, 2023
Four Serbian men stand close together to all look at a piece of paper in a field next to a pavilion
Past Film/Video

Logbook Serbistan

(Želimir Žilnik, 2015)

Preceded by Inventory (Želimir Žilnik, 1975)
Želimir Žilnik in person
Sat, Oct 28, 2023
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Past Film/Video

Marble Ass

Oct 20, 2023 7:00 PM EST
Film/Video Theater

$7 members and adults 55 and over
$9 general public
$5 students

Enjoy snacks with your movie
Heirloom Café reopens at 6 PM until this screening begins, serving gourmet popcorn plus beer, wine, and other refreshments. You can also find packaged snacks in the Wexner Center Store.

ACCESSIBILITY
We strive to host inclusive, accessible events that enable all individuals, including individuals with disabilities, to engage fully. If you have questions about accessibility or require an accommodation such as CART captioning or ASL interpretation to participate in this event, please email accessibility@wexarts.org or call (614) 688-3890. Requests made by two weeks in advance will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the Wexner Center for the Arts will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.

Become a Member