Abstract
This article examines Macedonian films produced since the country’s independence in 1991. It focuses on three aspects of said films: the Balkans' eroticism, narrations of war, and the aesthetics of violence. The author refers to the "mythoeroticism" of space and discovers in Macedonian films a metaphor established by other authors, i. e. the region as Europe’s unconscious, where the most primitive and scandalous passions are located. She explores the narratives of war and the strategies of survival present within the directors’ handling of the first twenty years of Macedonian independence. Finally, she describes a specific architecture – especially prisons and internment camps – as well as physical markers – tattoos, drug addiction, trauma – as aspects of an aestheticization of violence in Macedonian films. Among others, she analyses films by Cvetanovski, Mančevski, the sister and brothers Mitevski, Mitriќeski, Panov, Popov, Ristovski, and Trajkov.
Petzer, T