Film Studies and Western Undergraduate Film Society Present
Q&A with Milcho Manchevski* following
the screening
*Other credits include Before the Rain (1994): nominated for the Academy Award
for Best Foreign Language Film; winner of over 30 international awards including
the Golden Lion for Best Film in Venice.
DUST (2001)
Friday March 18 @ 4:30 PM in UC 84
Admission Free—All Welcome
Q&A with Milcho Manchevski* following
the screening
*Other credits include Before the Rain (1994): nominated for the Academy Award
for Best Foreign Language Film; winner of over 30 international awards including
the Golden Lion for Best Film in Venice.
Critical Commentarty on Dust
In Dust's key sequences of storytelling, Manchevski presents one of the most critical reconstructions of a Balkan historical narrative in film. Here, Manchevski subverts the "Western genre" in the Balkan context through the confrontation of Eastern and Western histories: the Wild West collides with the "Wild East" of early 20th century Balkan warfare. Manchevski's innovative technique critically engages with the dual heritage of East-West heroism, patriotism, and "mythmaking" in genre film. This "exile of the genre" hints as well at a counter-hegemonic potential of creative reinterpretations and reconstructions of both Eastern and Western film traditions in a post-global cinema yet to come.
In Dust's key sequences of storytelling, Manchevski presents one of the most critical reconstructions of a Balkan historical narrative in film. Here, Manchevski subverts the "Western genre" in the Balkan context through the confrontation of Eastern and Western histories: the Wild West collides with the "Wild East" of early 20th century Balkan warfare. Manchevski's innovative technique critically engages with the dual heritage of East-West heroism, patriotism, and "mythmaking" in genre film. This "exile of the genre" hints as well at a counter-hegemonic potential of creative reinterpretations and reconstructions of both Eastern and Western film traditions in a post-global cinema yet to come.
Vojislava Filipcevic in Film Criticism http://filmcriticism.allegheny.edu/archives29_2.htm
Watch the trailer at: http://www.manchevski.com/@page=filmography&sub=features&sub2=dust&sub3=trailer.htm
Bio--
Milcho Manchevski wrote and directed the feature films "BEFORE THE RAIN" (1994), "DUST" (2001), "SHADOWS" (2007) and "MOTHERS" (2011).
"BEFORE THE RAIN" won an Academy-Award nomination and thirty awards, including Golden Lion for Best Film in Venice, Independent Spirit, FIPRESCI, UNESCO, best film of the year in Argentina, Italy, Sweden, Turkey, and other awards in Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Poland, Puerto Rico, Russia, etc.
The New York Times included "BEFORE THE RAIN" on its list of the best 1,000 films ever made.
"DUST" was the opening-night film of the Venice Film Festival. Both "SHADOWS" and “MOTHERS” were the Macedonian Academy Awards entries, with “MOTHERS” screening in the Panorama section of Berlinale 2011.
Manchevski's films have screened at more than a hundred festivals, and have been distributed in close to 50 countries (theatrically, TV, cable and video).
His films are part of the curricula at numerous universities worldwide, and have been discoursed at a number of conferences. The University of Leipzig (Germany) and the European University Institute in Florence (Italy) hosted academic conferences dedicated, respectively, to "BEFORE THE RAIN" and "DUST."
Manchevski won awards for best experimental film (for "1.73") and best MTV video (for "TENNESSEE", which The Rolling Stone placed on the list of the 100 best videos ever).
He has published fiction, essays and op-ed pieces in New American Writing, La Repubblica, Corriere Della Sera, Sineast, The Guardian, Suddeutsche Zeitung, Pravda, etc.
Manchevski has staged performance art with the group 1AM and by himself.
He authored a (very small) book of fiction, "THE GHOST OF MY MOTHER" and two books of photographs "STREET" (1999) and “FIVE DROPS OF DREAM” (2010) which accompany the two photo exhibitions.
He has lectured at a number of universities, cinematheques, art museums and art institutes, most notably as a Head of the Directing Studies at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts' Graduate Film program.
"BEFORE THE RAIN" won an Academy-Award nomination and thirty awards, including Golden Lion for Best Film in Venice, Independent Spirit, FIPRESCI, UNESCO, best film of the year in Argentina, Italy, Sweden, Turkey, and other awards in Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Poland, Puerto Rico, Russia, etc.
The New York Times included "BEFORE THE RAIN" on its list of the best 1,000 films ever made.
"DUST" was the opening-night film of the Venice Film Festival. Both "SHADOWS" and “MOTHERS” were the Macedonian Academy Awards entries, with “MOTHERS” screening in the Panorama section of Berlinale 2011.
Manchevski's films have screened at more than a hundred festivals, and have been distributed in close to 50 countries (theatrically, TV, cable and video).
His films are part of the curricula at numerous universities worldwide, and have been discoursed at a number of conferences. The University of Leipzig (Germany) and the European University Institute in Florence (Italy) hosted academic conferences dedicated, respectively, to "BEFORE THE RAIN" and "DUST."
Manchevski won awards for best experimental film (for "1.73") and best MTV video (for "TENNESSEE", which The Rolling Stone placed on the list of the 100 best videos ever).
He has published fiction, essays and op-ed pieces in New American Writing, La Repubblica, Corriere Della Sera, Sineast, The Guardian, Suddeutsche Zeitung, Pravda, etc.
Manchevski has staged performance art with the group 1AM and by himself.
He authored a (very small) book of fiction, "THE GHOST OF MY MOTHER" and two books of photographs "STREET" (1999) and “FIVE DROPS OF DREAM” (2010) which accompany the two photo exhibitions.
He has lectured at a number of universities, cinematheques, art museums and art institutes, most notably as a Head of the Directing Studies at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts' Graduate Film program.
