Dušan Makavejev – short films 2

Mladomir ‘Puriša’ Đorđević is a Serbian director and screenwriter born in 1924. His film The Morning received a Golden Lion nomination in 1967. The same year, his film The Dream received a Golden Bear nomination in Berlin. In 1982, his short, Veselin Nikolic, received a special prize at the Krakow Film Festival. He has produced 63 films since his 1947 debut, Trst.

Paul Morrissey is an American director, screenwriter and cinematographer born in 1938. He studied literature at Fordham University and began making short independent films in the early 1960s, after stints in the military, an insurance company and as a social worker. In 1965, he met Andy Warhol, which sparked their cooperation; Morrisey later worked as a director and manager in Warhol’s Factory. Along with Anthony M. Dawson (Antonio Margheriti), an acclaimed Italian genre director, he co-directed Blood for Dracula and Flesh for Frankenstein, both with leading roles by Udo Kier. He received the Jack Smith Lifetime Achievement Award at the Chicago Underground Film Festival.

Italian director, screenwriter, editor, and actor, Giovanni Tinto Brass was born in 1933 in Milan. He began as a highbrow or even avant-garde filmmaker. His The Howl was nominated in 1970 for the Golden Bear while his Vacation received the Italian Film Critics Award at the Venice Film Festival in 1971. In 1969, he produced his first erotic film, Attraction, about the fascination of a white woman with a dark-skinned man. In later years, his films tended toward soft porn, including The Voyeur, Frivolous Lola and Private. His films are controversial and evoke debate about the line between erotica and porn.

Born in 1930, Documentary filmmaker, acclaimed for his portraits of American public institutions and the mechanisms underpinning various systems, e.g. school and prison, or industries, e.g. food, entertainment, and healthcare. Wiseman has honed his specific filmmaking model over many years, where he collects about 100 hours of footage shot without a script, does not interview his subjects, does not dub music or voiceover. Only the images and editing matter, on which he spends an entire year. Wiseman’s films have received awards at festivals in Venice, Cannes, and Berlin. Reminiscent of visual essays, they are recognized documentary classics.

Buck Henry was born in 1930 in New York as Henry Zuckerman. This American actor, screenwriter, film director and writer was twice nominated for the Oscar, once for directing (with Warren Beatty) for Heaven Can Wait (1978) and with Calder Willingham for the script to The Graduate (1967). His other scripts include To Die For,directed by Gus van Sant, and What’s Up Doc directed by Peter Bogdanovich. Henry’s acting credits include The Man Who Fell to Earth, Mike Nichols Catch 22, Robert Altman’s Shortcuts, Miloš Forman’s Taking Off and Alan Rudolph’s Breakfast of Champions.

Born in 1932 in Čáslav, Czechoslovakia. His parents were killed in concentration camps. Miloš studied film at Prague’s FAMU and debuted in 1964 with Audition. Recognition came with films such as Black Peter (1964), The Loves of a Blonde (1965), and The Firemen’s Ball (1967) that showed his skill at exposing life’s tragicomedies, great and small. The invasion by Warsaw Pact forces on Czechoslovakia in August 1968 found him in Paris, from which he immigrated to the US. His first American film, Taking Off (1971) won the Grand Prize of the Jury at Cannes and his adaptation of Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) was extremely successful and the winner of five Oscars, followed by Hair, Amadeus, Ragtime, The People vs. Larry Flynt, Man on the Moon.

Bogdan Tirnanić (1941-2009) is one of the best-known Serbian journalists and film critics. His career has included acting roles – he starred in the award winning film Early Works, (1969) and The Black Bomber (1992). In 1981, he wrote the script for the feature The Promising Boy. He directed one film, a short that is part of the I Miss Sonia Henie compilation film.