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Filmography - As Writer-Director

Features

Bikini Sunshine, 2014
In development
Mothers, 2010
  Premieres: Toronto Intl Film Festival and
  Berlin Intl Film Festival – Panorama, 2010 and 2011
Shadows, 2007
  Premiere: Toronto Intl Film Festival 2007
Dust, 2001
  Premiere: Venice Intl Film Festival
  (Opening night film), 2001
Before the Rain, 1994
  Premiere: Venice Intl Film Festival
  (Golden Lion winner), 1994

Short Forms
Experimental Films

ECU (video art for Kiril) 2002
1.74 (film-performance) A Room to Swing a Cat, Brooklyn, 1986
1.73 (film-performance) Split Film Festival, 1985
1.72 (film-performance) Belgrade Alternative, 1984
Untitled (A.K.A. The Black Leader film) 1982

The Wire, 1981
Paths of Glory, 1981
Beautiful Blue Danube, 1981

Short Narrative Films and Spec Spots

Thursday, 2013
Soho, 1991
Possession (7-min feature pilot) 1990
Black & Leather 1, 1990
Black & Leather 2, 1990
Brooklyn Bridge, 1990
WMFM, 1990
Tough Granny, 1985
Divine Comedy, 1982
The Tenant, 1981
Wednesday Morning at Five O’clock as the Day Begins,1980
Working Class Goes to Heaven, 1980
Christianity 101 (documentary), 1980
Untitled, 1980
Untitled (A.K.A. Passport), 1980
Breakfast  (based on a poem by Jacques Prevert;
 co-directed with Aleksandar Grcev) 1978
Untitled (A.K.A. Joke) 1978

Music Videos and Spots

Mothers trailer 2010
Macedonia Timeless (Mountain Sports  :60) 2009
Macedonia Timeless (Archaeology  :30) 2008
Macedonia Timeless (Temples  :30) 2008
Macedonia Timeless (premiere spot  :60) 2008
Dust trailer 2001
Primitive Science (for Kiril) 2001
The Dead Are Waiting (for Kiril) 2001
Brothel Tango (for Kiril) 2001
Tradition (:90, :60, :30 spots) 1999
Before the Rain trailer 1995
This Generation (for Roachford) 1994
Know Your Boots (spot) 1993
Know Your Boots (point-of-purchase) 1993
Vive ma liberte (for Arno) 1993
Tennessee (for Arrested Development) 1992
One to Grow on (for UMC’s) 1992
Forever and Ever (for Robyn Springer) 1992
A Dirty Cop Named Harry (for Hard Knox) 1992
Do You Want It Right Now (for Degrees of Motion) 1992
Shine on (for Degrees of Motion) 1992
Fakin the Funk (for Main Source) 1992
  (from the soundtrack of the film White Men Can’t Jump)

Just My Imagination (for 2 Too Many) 1992
Just a Little Love (for Aurra) 1992
I Don’t Mind (for Big Bub) 1992
Never Saw a Miracle (for Curtis Stigers) 1992
Widowmaker (for Widowmaker) 1992
Similak Child (for Black Sheep) 1992
You Ain’t Thinking About Me (for Sonia Dada) 1992
Baby I believe in You (for George LaMond) 1992
You’re Telling Me Stories (for Big Bub) 1992
Fever (for Way 2 Go) 1991
Kid Get Hyped (for Deskee) 1991
Heaven Knows (for Francesca Beghe) 1991
title unknown (for Francesca Beghe) 1991
If You're Serious (for Riff) 1991
title sequence (for Apollo Theater TV show) 1991
Cassette (spot) 1991
You Don’t Need This (spec spot for Amtrak) 1990
A Word to Mother (for Banji) 1990
Undercover (for Partners In Kryme) 1990
Macy’s Christmas (promotional video) 1986
Hot Day in Mexico (for bastion!) 1985
Damar (for Leb i sol) 1983
Talasna duzina (for Leb i sol) 1983
Aber dojde, Donke (for Leb i sol) 1983

As Director for Hire

The Wire (HBO), 2002
Heaven (Krzysztof Kieslowski’s), 1999 (development)
From Potter’s Field (Patricia Cornwell’s), 1997 (development)
An Alan Smithee Film (A.K.A. Burn, Hollywood, Burn),
 1997 (development)
Casualties of War (A.K.A. Three Kings), 1996 (development)
Perfect Murder (A.K.A. Dial M for Murder), 1996 (development)
Cut Time (documentary), 1990

Art

Exhibitions, Performance, etc.

Five Drops of Dream (exhibition of photographic compositions)
  - Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia, 2011
  - Museum of Contemporary Art, Novi Sad, Serbia, 2011
  - National Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2012
  - Kulturni Centar Beograda, Serbia, 2012
  - GRID Photo Biennial, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2012
  - Miyako Yoshinaga Art Prospects, New York, 2012
  - Gliptoteka, 2012

   - Multumedia Museum, Moscow, Russia, 2013
   - Solyanka Gallery, Moscow, Russia, 2013
   - Mediterranean Film Festival, Izmir, Turkey, 2013
Brazil: a Photograph for the Future (a photograph in a group
show) Antonia Jannone Gallery, Milan, 2010
Bitola  (artwork in a retrospective), 2007
A Page Out of Order: M (dance by Yoshiko Chuma, incorporating
a distillation of Before the Rain)
  - Mabou Mines, 2005
  - Bard College, 2005
  - Dance Theater Workshop, 2006
  - La Mama, 2006
  - Centrul National al Dansului, Romania, 2006
  - Japan, 2006
  - Lokomotiva, Macedonia, 2006
 Conceptual Discourse in Macedonia (eight artworks in a retrospective),
  - Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia, 2003
Street (exhibition of photographs)
  - Emzin Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2006
  - Museum of Contemporary Art, Santo Domingo, 2003
  - Apollonia Space, Strasbourg, France, 2001
  - Thessalonica, Greece, 2001

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