(Speculative Archival Reconstruction of a Latent Film)
Speaker: Pavle Levi, Osgood Hooker Professor of Fine Arts and Chair, Department of Art & Art History, Stanford University
Moderator: Jean Ma, Mr. and Mrs. Hung Hing-Ying Professor in the Arts, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU
Date: Thursday, April 9, 2026
Time: 4:00 pm Hong Kong Time
Venue: Room 436, 4/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, HKU
All are welcome. Registration is required.
https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=105447
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 Osgood Hooker Professor of Fine Arts and chair of the Department of Art & Art History at Stanford University. He is the author of a number of books about film, including: Cinema by Other Means (2012), Jolted Images (2018), Miniatures: On the Politics of Film Form (2021), and Hypnos in Cineland (2022).
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