 From 1960 to 1964 he worked as a dramaturge at the Zagreb Film production company, and he had his directing debut with the 1964 film "The Flood" (), a documentary about the 1964 Zagreb flood.He went on to make a number of acclaimed documentaries in the 1960s and 1970s, mostly dealing with social issues and art.After making a few surrealist experimental short films in the early 1970s, Žižić started making feature films, his most notable works being "The House" ("Kuća", 1975) and "Don't Lean Out the Window" ("Ne naginji se van", 1977), which both won the Big Golden Arena for Best Film awards at the 1975 and 1977 editions of the Pula Film Festival.