Acclaimed Macedonian film director
Milcho Manchevski will introduce his film, Dust, in a screening on Thursday, Oct. 9.
at 7 p.m. in the F.W.
Olin Center
Auditorium.
The film, part of a series titled “12 Windows: Encountering Culture Through Film,”
is free and open to the public.
Robert
Hislope, a professor of political science specializing in the region, will lead
a discussion.
In Dust (2001), a gunfighter from the American West travels to Macedonia and finds “the wild east.”
Manchevski has produced over 50
short forms (experimental films, documentaries, music videos, commercials). His
awards include best experimental film (for “1.72” at the Belgrade
Alternative Festival), best MTV and Billboard video (for Arrested Development's
“Tennessee,” which also
made Rolling Stone magazine's list of 100 best videos ever).
He wrote and directed Before The Rain (1994), which won 30 awards
at international festivals including best film in Venice;
and Independent
Spirit, an Oscar nomination. The latter film also earned a place in The New York Times' book, Best 1,000 Films Ever Made.
He has written a book of fiction, The Ghost of My Mother, and a book of
photographs, Street (accompanying an
exhibition). His fiction and essays have been published in New American Writing, La Republica, Corriere della Sera, and Sineast. He has done performance art as
a solo performer and with the group 1AM, which he founded. He lives in New
York City and teaches film and television directing at
New York University's
Tisch School
of the Arts.
The
series is sponsored by the Hobart and William Smith Colleges and Union College Partnership for Global Education, which
runs the series on both campuses. The PGE asks faculty and staff on both
campuses to select and introduce films that explore cultures other than our
own, and examine these communities location within a diverse human geography. At
Union, the series runs 12 films in the fall and winter terms.