Word: makavejev
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard's visiting lecturer on Visual and Environmental Studies, Yugoslavian film-maker Dusan Makavejev, will make a reciprocal trip to lecture at Berkeley next week...
There, as here, what Makavejev terms a "barter system" exists between the creative film-makers and commercial/political interests. Producers are willing to make some concessions for art's sake if the film-maker concedes a few personal, artistic points for commercialism...
Although the U.S. and the Yugoslavian producer-director relationships are similar, Makavejev hypothesizes that being a Marxist in this country means something different than being a Marxist in Yugoslavia...
...Makavejev's films are a combination of art and politics, tragedy and comedy, theory and practice, rational and irrational, fiction and documentary. It is as if he is not satisfied with showing his subject from any one point of view. He's always shifting tenses, much like American novelist John Dos Passos, who strongly influenced Makavejev...
...Makavejev knows he is full of contradictions. "Everything with me is a polarity between chaos and organization," he says. Whether this polarity can be balanced at Harvard depends to a large extent on whether his film students, whose artistic urges may have been stifled by years of thinking competitively rather than cooperatively, can fulfill his creative expectations...