October 10, 2003: Volume 59, Number 5

Director Manchevski to speak at film screening

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.

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