Bela Tarr & Dušan Makavejev

 Bela Tarr & Dušan Makavejev

Bela Tarr – As Mast and Kawin point out,
1)Tarr makes long, slow films.
2)Tarr has said that his films are not about telling stories, but about getting closer to people.
3)By showing the intricate details of everyday life,
4)Tarr hopes to show the operations of human nature in an effort to understand it.

About the film: 

 In Werckmeister Harmonies (2000), Tarr tells the story of a man and his uncle during the Soviet occupation of Hungary at the end of WWII. The film is nearly 2 ½ hours and only consists of 39 shots. In the film, a circus comes to town led by a mysterious figure only known as The Prince.

About the clip: 

The following scene (that consists of one long take) shows János (Lars Rudolph) encountering the circus whale for the first time.

Werckmeister Harmonies (Bela Tarr, 2000):

Part of the clip we saw in class before he goes into a strange circus tent to see a dead whale?  Click Here
After that scene A man asks him what he saw and he said it was amazing - you should see it and he said thing like that will only lead to trouble. Beautiful soft violin music.

Small description and good photos Click Here

Dušan Makavejev

1) Makavejev is a Serbian director born in what is now the former Yugoslavia.
2) His films of the 1960s and early 1970s are part of what is known as the Black Wave,
    a Yugoslav film movement known for its non-traditional approach to filmmaking and dark humor.
3) Makavejev’s most successful film is W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism (1971),

Film Clip intro: 

W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism (1971), a political satire that explores the relationship between communist politics and sexuality. The film also explores the life of Wilhelm Reich, who was an Austrian psychoanalyst who became a controversial figure.

W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism (Dušan Makavejev, 1971): 11 minute clip. 

In color and in English and sepia. I'm here in the accumulator - a boy little comes out in a mask with the doctor.   They were used as a treatment in the low energy levels in the body and experimentally in the treatment of cancer. He used the machine on my finger and it stopped the bleeding almost immediately. 
It's a mockumentary i think... a group of people think that the world went the wrong why and they still believe in him. Oh this is the part about Wilhelm Reich. 

I couldn't find the class clip. The ones I did find are very disturbing. 
Here's a YouTube interpretation of the film Click Here It's interesting and talks about montage theory and is steeped with the psychological effects of editing? and the story pays tribute to Soviet films sometimes placing clips of them inside the film. The story exists between the segments not the moment. How much is truth and propagandistic representation. A disorienting kaleidoscope of tomes. The film makes you feel. Carries a humorous tone throughout. Banned in the country. Very blunt about sexuality and ideology. 

 An article on the film Click Here