Milcho Manchevski Double Feature
BEFORE THE RAIN and DUST provide unique perspectives
on violence in the Balkans, and we present them as a Milcho Manchevski double feature this week.
Double Mint on the Sundance Channel:
http://www.sundancechannel.com/
http://www.sundancechannel.com/on_air_event/?ixContent=8421
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MILCHO MANCHEVSKI DOUBLE FEATURE
WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 16 STARTING AT 8:00PM
AND TUESDAY NOVEMBER 29 STARTING AT 11:00PM
Born in 1959 in the former Yugoslavia (now Macedonia),
Milcho Manchevski moved to New York shortly after high
school before entering the Southern Illinois University
film program. After graduating in 1982, he created a
series of award-winning short films and music videos
including Arrested Development's "Tennessee", named one
of Rolling Stone's 100 best videos of all time.
Extremely prolific, Manchevski directed sixteen music
videos on 1992 alone. But Manchevski had serious stories
to tell, and he refused to be pigeon-holed as a short-
form commercial director.
It was in 1994 that Manchevski would release his first
feature film BEFORE THE RAIN, a character-driven
reflection on the war-torn region of his birth.
Major critics called the film "brilliant", "poetic",
and "powerful", and it would go on to win more than
30 international awards for its depiction of a cycle
of ethnic violence that touches lives beyond the
Macedonian and Bosnian borders. Again bucking type,
Manchevski's later DUST confounded both audiences
and critics with its experimental structure and "Wild
East" plot. Told from the point of view of an old woman
through a series of shifting, jarring flashbacks whose
accuracy has been dimmed by time, DUST brings us back to
Macedonia during the time of the Ottoman Empire, when
mercenaries roamed the countryside lending their hands
and their guns to the highest bidder in a violent civil
war.