1941 –  Hungary György Galántai is a Hungarian neo-avant-garde artist, organizer of the events of the Chapel Studio in Balatonboglár (1970 –1973) and founder of the Artpool Art Research Center Budapest. He studied at the Technical School for Road Construction in Székesfehérvár where he attended all possible study groups for drawing. After spending a few years working as a…

1987 – Romania Daniel Djamo is a Romanian artist interested in personal and group histories. He combines film with video art and installation with photography in order to evoke the past and to underline “the now.”His video artworks have been screened in numerous video art and film festivals. He is currently a PhD candidate at the…

1953 –  Poland Teresa Tyszkiewicz is photographer, draughtsman, performance artist, painter and a filmmaker currently based in Paris. She graduated from the Mechanical and Technological Department of the Warsaw Polytechnic in 1978. In the seventies she was modelling for Zdzisław Sosnowski (her husband) and soon they released their first movies. (Goalkeeper, 1975; Permanent Position, 1979, The…

1943 – 2015  Hungary Péter Türk was a painter and a photographer. He made his experimental short film in the Balázs Béla Studio, as part of the Experanima series. Filmography Experanima – Static Movie (Experanima – Statikus mozi) (1983)          

1949 –  Poland Zbigniew Rybczyński aka ‘Big Zbig’ is a Polish filmmaker and multimedia artist. After finishing his studies at the School of Fine Arts in Warsaw, he worked for a period of time at the Studio Miniatur Filmowych [the Miniature Film Study]. In 1969 he enrolled at the Lodz Film School, where he was active…

1971 –  Czech Republic Jan Daňhel is a filmmaker, a self-taught photographer and a teacher. He graduated from FAMU’s Department of Editing in 1995 where he works as a lecturer. Since 1995 he has been a member of the Czech and Slovak Surrealists Group. He is the co-founder of the creative association Argentum Vivum and…

1951 –  Hungary András Szirtes is a filmmaker, cinematographer, editor, actor and musician; one of the leading figures of the contemporary Hungarian avant-garde film scene. Szirtes’ oeuvre is closely bonded with the Béla Balázs Studio and shows the influence of János Tóth’s unique imagery. Already his early, lyrical works are deeply personal, they show unmistakable…

1987 –  Slovakia Zuzana Žabková studied at Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava, Departments of Intermedia and Multimedia and at Academy of Performing Arts, Bratislava, Dance Choreography Department. As a result of her mixed studies, she tends to incorporate elements of contemporary performance art into her films. Her experimental dance films compound the features…

1984 –  Hungary Danila Kostil is an animator and filmmaker currently based in Barcelona. He was born in Uzbekistan and moved to Hungary in 1996. He graduated at Eötvös Lóránd University Faculty of Russian Language and Literature and from Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Faculty of Film and Media Design. Combining styles and techniques are…

1973 –  Czech Republic Michal Pěchouček is one of the leading figures of the Czech contemporary art scene. He works as a filmmaker, a photographer and a painter. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague in 1999. His films are hard to label, they do not seem to fit neither in the…

1976 –   Czech Republic Martin Ježek studied film editing and production at FAMU in Prague. He invented his own specific method of 8mm film making, using a montage of intuitively recorded images in combination with a similarly multi-layered, elaborate soundtrack. Filmography How Weather Is Made (Jak se dělá počasí) (2014) Fire Sport II (Požární sport…

1974 – Hungary Gyula Nemes is a Hungarian filmmaker involved in both documentary and fiction films. studied Czech and Hungarian literature together with film theory at ELTE in Budapest. Later on he carried on with his film studies at Prague’s FAMU  under the supervision of Věra Chytilová and Karel Vachek. His experimentalism draws on the…

1989 –   Czech Republic Alexandra Moralesová works with 8mm and 16mm film, video, photographs and projection. She is interested in the principles of vision, viewing methods, narration and the issue of the archive. She studies at Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, Center for Audiovisual Studies (FAMU, CAS).…

1967 – 2007 Hungary Iván Artner was a musician and radio host. An iconic member of the Hungarian underground. He made his experimental short with Miklós Barcs in the Balázs Béla Studio. Filmography Cosmic Insect (Égi rovar) 1995 – with Miklós Barcs    

Romania Mara Trifu is a Romanian freelance documentary director and camera operator. She graduated from the National University of Drama and Film I. L. Caragiale Bucharest in 2011. She completed her MA at the National Film and Television School in the UK. Her award-winning short films have been screened at numerous film festivals all around…

1986 –  Hungary Ádám Komjáthy-Hartyándi is an independent filmmaker and goldsmith based in Győr.   Filmography VARIATIONS (1992) COLOURS (1991)    

1966 –  Czech Republic Alice Růžičková is a filmmaker, teacher and film theorist based in Prague. She is one of the leading figures of the contemporary Czech experimental film scene. She graduated from the Faculty of Science, Charles University with a teaching degree in biology-mathematics and zoology-entomology in 1991 and from FAMU’s Documentary Department in…

1948  – Hungary János Baksa-Soós is a performer and a fine artist currently based in Berlin. He was founding member of Vastaps, and later member of the legendary Kex-band, founded in 1969. He studied at the graphic department of Folkwang School of Art in Essen. Later on he attended the Kunstakademie of Düsseldorf, where he studied…

1950 –  Hungary Péter Forgács is a media artist and independent filmmaker based in Budapest. He started his studies in 1971 at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts but was dismissed in the same year. In the late 1970s and ’80s he collaborated with the contemporary music ensemble Group 180. Between 1978 and 1993 he…

1950 –  Hungary Gábor Tóth is a performance artist, a filmmaker and a poet. He is known primarily for his anti-art slogans, which he produces as postcards and stickers. He completed two periods of training as a craftsman printer. He has been the founder and editor of various newspapers and magazines. In 1973, he founded the…

1983 –  Czech Republic Petr Hátle is a video artist and filmmaker based in Prague. He studied film history, film theory and philosophy at Charles University and graduated from Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, Department of Documentary Film. His pieces balance on the on the verge of video…

1978 – Hungary Gergő Somogyvári is a Hungarian filmmaker currently based in Budapest. He graduated from the University of Theatre and Film Arts, Department of Cinematography. He is mainly known for his experimental documentary films. Filmography Carta Azulejo (Csempelevél) (2008) Cars (2007) Articles Here And There – Gergő Somogyvári/Judit Feszt: Carta Azulejo      

1979 –  Slovakia Mira Gáberová’s art encompasses several forms of media, including painting, drawing, installation, object art, public art, photography and video. Regarding her experimental films her artistic attitude is based on the confrontation of extremes, the usage of powerful symbols, the exploitation of clichés, hypertextuality and the urge to discover the nature of femininity.…

1963 –  Czech Republic Composer, musician, filmmaker, visual artist. Works mostly with collage, assemblage, mixed media (experiments with less conventional materials such as wax, foam rubber, plastics, minerals..etc.) and structural/material film. Since 1981 he has been active in the field of experimental music and  multi-medial performances/actions. He is the current artistic director of the European…