Dušan Makavejev’s
Murderers on the Yugoslavia Express
(Speculative Archival Reconstruction of a Latent Film)
Pavle Levi, Osgood Hooker Professor of Fine Arts, Stanford University

This presentation, based on recent archival discoveries, will introduce the never-before-seen material pertaining to Dušan Makavejev’s 1990s idea for a film about the war of Yugoslav disintegration. Bringing together visual and written threads pertaining to documentary war-photography, Agatha Christie’s murder mysteries, human-animal relations, techniques of montage, and computer-generated imagery, the talk will aim to reconstruct a peculiar cinematic concept, which encapsulates the late phase of Makavejev’s work and deepens our understanding of socialist Yugoslavia's break up in unorthodox ways.

Pavle Levi is Chair of the Department of Art & Art History and the Osgood Hooker Professor of Fine Arts in Stanford’s Film and Media Studies Program. He is the author of a number of books on film, including: Cinema by Other Means, Jolted Images, and Hypnos in Cineland.

This event is organized by the Stanford-Berkeley New Yugoslav Studies Program and hosted by the Department of Art & Art History.

VISITOR INFORMATION
Oshman Hall is located within the McMurtry Building on Stanford campus at 355 Roth Way. Visitor parking is available in designated areas and is free after 4pm on weekdays. Alternatively, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Transit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle. If you need a disability-related accommodation or wheelchair access information, please contact Julianne Garcia at juggarci@stanford.edu. This event is open to Stanford affiliates and the general public.

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