As Yugoslavia slid into brutal wars of secession in the 1990s Žilnik restarted his career yet again, this time turning to low budget video production. His productivity understandably dropped in the midst of harsh economic sanctions and the numerous other calamities of civil war. In fact, of all the decades he has been active, Žilnik made the fewest films in the 1990s. However, in turning his reduced means into heightened creativity, he directed two of his most iconic works in this decade. Tito Among the Serbs for the Second Time, made in 1994, is a mid-length documentary intervention, what Žilnik called a ‘happening’. In this hybrid work he took a famous Tito impersonator, Dragoljub Ljubičić, into the streets of a destitute Belgrade dressed as the former legendary leader of the League of Yugoslav Communists and walked him through the city center, allowing citizens to interact with him as they wished. The result of this risky experiment was a unique case study in mass psychology and the creative interpolation of collective trauma. This semidocumentary work was distributed on videotape and became an unexpectedly successful and profitable production.