In commemoration of the one-year anniversary of the passing of Dušan Makavejev, from 28th of February to 8th of March, the famous New York venue for auteur and art film, Anthology Film Archives will host the first comprehensive North American retrospective in 25 years of this world-renowned director. The retrospective is curated by Greg de Cuir Jr & Pavle Levi.
The relelase reads: Dušan Makavejev (b. 1932) came of age in the post-WWII era, during the early years of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. For some five decades he actively participated in shaping the cinematic as well as the broader cultural and intellectual currents in his homeland. From a kino club member and activist in the 1950s, to a director of unconventional documentary shorts in the early 1960s, Mak (as he was known by his friends and colleagues) established himself in the mid-to-late 1960s as a highly innovative author with radical aesthetic and socio-political sensibilities.
This retrospective presents the entirety of Makavejev’s feature-length output as a director, with all films screened from 35mm prints. The program also offers a selection of shorts that exemplify the unbridled creativity of his early filmmaking.
