Something Against Nature: Sweet Movie, 4, and Disgust
The author brings together two seminal films from differing eras that challenge audiences in complex and confronting ways.
Gleaming Faces, Dark Realities: Dušan Makavejev’s Man Is Not a Bird and the Representation of the Working Class after Socialist Realism
Penetrating analysis of Dušan Makavejev’s 1965 first feature film in the light of its critique of the social realist æsthetic and Communist ideology of the era.
The World Tasted: Dušan Makavejev’s Sweet Movie
The author of the forthcoming first English-language book devoted to the director, Terror and Joy: The Films of Dušan Makavejev, dissects this most sensuously complex film.
Sweet Movie: The Gentle Side of “Destructive Art”
The esteemed director of this landmark movie looks back at his most controversial film.