GORAN TRENCHOVSKI, PHD
SHORT BIOGRAPHY
He was born in 1970. He graduated Directing at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad in the class of professor Boro Draskovic. After graduation, he became one of the youngest and most prolific directors in Southeast Europe. He specialized in Prague and attended postgraduate studies at the Faculty of Philology in Skopje where he prepared the MASTER thesis “Kinesthetic stories of Solev and Čingo (adapted into films by Rusomir Bogdanovski).”
He defended the doctoral thesis “Intermedial verifications of the novels ‘The Red Horse’ by Tashko Georgievski and ‘The Gentle Barbarian’ by Bohumil Hrabal”.
In his artistic oeuvre, Trenchovski has directed plays in all drama media. He is a signatory of about 100 professional creative art projects. He has published over 300 articles in the press and periodicals, and has directed more than 500 TV shows of different program genres [series, documentaries, docudramas].
Through his directing projects he facilitated presentations of Adamov, Aeschylus, Arrabal, Beckett, Buchner, Witkacy, Ionesco, Plautus, Havel, as well as of plays or screenplays by Andonovski, Garvanlieva, Kocevski, Manchev, Madzunkov, Mircevska, Nasev, Plavevski, Stefanović, Tashkovski, Chashule, Chernodrinski etc.
His short and medium-length films are an refreshment in the treatment of urban and newly-mythical Balkan iconography [Beggars and Placards, Multilevel, The Lakeland of Nicola K., The spirit of my father, Play and Save...]. He directed the first Macedonian urban series Bumbari, the documentary I believe in Macedonia transferred to 35 mm, as well as Ghoul Quest the first Macedonian feature TV film shot on digital equipment.
His plays are inventive paraphrases of the European theater of the absurd [Endgame, Sound Imagery, Slavic Orpheus, Lessons of Crime, Luna Prima, Libretto Wagner, Infernal Machine, From the First Breath, Beggars’ Opera, The Spirit of the Can, Dry Wood from Babylon, end(K)ing, Partále, The Cabinet of Prof. Taranne...].
The books of Trenchovski are an interesting autopoetic cinematic-theatrical literature [From Beggar to King, Orbis Pictus, Poetics of (De-)Thronization, Pars Pro Toto, Kino Neimar, Theses and Askeses].
His projects have been performed and presented in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Germany, Greece, Italy, Canada, Poland, Russia, USA, Slovakia, Slovenia, Serbia, Turkey, France, Czech Republic, Switzerland, india, UK...
He worked as a playwright, theater lab coordinator, head of TV directing department, selector of chamber theatres festival, editor and supervisor of magazines, manager and international cultural activist.
Together with his wife, he is founder of the international film festival “AsterFest” as well as initiator of the Tiberiopolian Film Alliance.
Participates at events, symposiums and conferences. Lectures on film, theater and intermediality.
He introduces and promotes the “poetics of (de)tronization.”
He received the following awards: Vojdan Chernodrinski, Grand Prix for TV-film – Sarajevo, Award for artistic stage expression – Stobi, Sv. 15 Tiveriopolski svestenomacenici, Script Fest etc.
The latest project directed by Goran Trenchovski is the feature film, Golden Five.
SHORT BIOGRAPHY
He was born in 1970. He graduated Directing at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad in the class of professor Boro Draskovic. After graduation, he became one of the youngest and most prolific directors in Southeast Europe. He specialized in Prague and attended postgraduate studies at the Faculty of Philology in Skopje where he prepared the MASTER thesis “Kinesthetic stories of Solev and Čingo (adapted into films by Rusomir Bogdanovski).”
He defended the doctoral thesis “Intermedial verifications of the novels ‘The Red Horse’ by Tashko Georgievski and ‘The Gentle Barbarian’ by Bohumil Hrabal”.
In his artistic oeuvre, Trenchovski has directed plays in all drama media. He is a signatory of about 100 professional creative art projects. He has published over 300 articles in the press and periodicals, and has directed more than 500 TV shows of different program genres [series, documentaries, docudramas].
Through his directing projects he facilitated presentations of Adamov, Aeschylus, Arrabal, Beckett, Buchner, Witkacy, Ionesco, Plautus, Havel, as well as of plays or screenplays by Andonovski, Garvanlieva, Kocevski, Manchev, Madzunkov, Mircevska, Nasev, Plavevski, Stefanović, Tashkovski, Chashule, Chernodrinski etc.
His short and medium-length films are an refreshment in the treatment of urban and newly-mythical Balkan iconography [Beggars and Placards, Multilevel, The Lakeland of Nicola K., The spirit of my father, Play and Save...]. He directed the first Macedonian urban series Bumbari, the documentary I believe in Macedonia transferred to 35 mm, as well as Ghoul Quest the first Macedonian feature TV film shot on digital equipment.
His plays are inventive paraphrases of the European theater of the absurd [Endgame, Sound Imagery, Slavic Orpheus, Lessons of Crime, Luna Prima, Libretto Wagner, Infernal Machine, From the First Breath, Beggars’ Opera, The Spirit of the Can, Dry Wood from Babylon, end(K)ing, Partále, The Cabinet of Prof. Taranne...].
The books of Trenchovski are an interesting autopoetic cinematic-theatrical literature [From Beggar to King, Orbis Pictus, Poetics of (De-)Thronization, Pars Pro Toto, Kino Neimar, Theses and Askeses].
His projects have been performed and presented in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Germany, Greece, Italy, Canada, Poland, Russia, USA, Slovakia, Slovenia, Serbia, Turkey, France, Czech Republic, Switzerland, india, UK...
He worked as a playwright, theater lab coordinator, head of TV directing department, selector of chamber theatres festival, editor and supervisor of magazines, manager and international cultural activist.
Together with his wife, he is founder of the international film festival “AsterFest” as well as initiator of the Tiberiopolian Film Alliance.
Participates at events, symposiums and conferences. Lectures on film, theater and intermediality.
He introduces and promotes the “poetics of (de)tronization.”
He received the following awards: Vojdan Chernodrinski, Grand Prix for TV-film – Sarajevo, Award for artistic stage expression – Stobi, Sv. 15 Tiveriopolski svestenomacenici, Script Fest etc.
The latest project directed by Goran Trenchovski is the feature film, Golden Five.