Miron Cernienko: Macedonian film
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…For sure this kind of lyric does not suit to a book,
dedicated to such specific and unexpected phenomenon such is the macedonian film art, but
all of this I could not explain to my self and, of course I hope to the readers this
unexpected fact that after many years of studding the Balkan film and especially when I
sow the Branko Gapo's film "The Macedonian Saga" I wished to write my own
"saga", the saga of the films you have in front of you…
Miron Cernienko |
Miron Chernienko, the author of this book dedicated to Macedonian film, is one the most articulate and knowledgeable experts on film in his own country. He has filled 200 pages with his extensive knowledge of the history and development of Macedonian cinema including comprehensive catalogue of data and facts; and this pages also include his open love for Macedonian culture, its history, its tradition and its people. In his introduction Miron Chernienko remembers with great affections his firs contact with Macedonian film and filmmakers. The importance of this first contact made in the distant sixties his never been affected by time spend at cold business conventions. Being curious and dynamic and keen in his analyses and research Chernienko was to find the most appropriate context for introducing new information about Macedonian films and their creators and he has always managed to discover and original values. In this manner he has surprised both the immediate makers of the films and the people to considered themselves to be learned both in the nature of film as a medium, and its problems.
It is the curiosity and pioneering spirit of the people, which is the broadest context in which to place the Macedonian phenomena. A context, which historically developed from a fine art tradition whose roots, originates in the classical period and medieval fresco painting.
Miron Chernienko - Born on the 17th of February in Harkov, Ukraine. Graduated at the Faculty of Law in 1952 and at the Film Academy in 1964. He got M.A. degree from the theory of art in 1976.
He is the president of the editorial council of the magazine "The Screen"- the section of the Rusian film critics and film theoreticians. He is the president of the selection commitee of the Moscow international film festival. He is the author of about ten monographies and booklets, among them are those about Andzey Vajda, "The film in Yugoslavia", "Sergey Paradjanov". He has published over 200 articles and esseys about Yugoslav film, and as a part of that, about Macedonian film, too.
