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Fragmented Pleasure – Aneta Grzeszykowska: Holes
The aesthetic ideal of the complete, finished form has dominated the visual representation of the female body for centuries. The…
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I See You – Alicja Żebrowska: The Mystery is Looking
In a time when body dysmorphic disorder fuelled by online pornography, strict Western fashion trends, and specific perceptions of beauty…
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Gamechanger – Dóra Maurer: Kalah
“If I am unexpectedly questioned: “what is experimental film?” – my first reaction is defense. I take the question as…
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Metal / Music – István Bácskai Lauró: Fascination (1963)
With its cryptic atmosphere, sci-fi like images and unearthly music, Bácskai Lauró’s 1963 short piece is a truly playful representative…
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Lights on! – Kazimierz Bendkowski: Centre
At first Kazimierz Bendkowski’s 1973 work Centre (Centrum) seems to offer a straightforward reading. With flickering images of neon signs…
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Hungarian abstract films – Péter Klausz: Blueprint (2013)
Even though Hungary has got a rich and diverse avant-garde film culture, it seems to have almost no abstract film…
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Diversity Versus Modesty – The Czech Contemporary Experimental Film Scene (Part Two)
Preserving the Film’s Body – Analogue Practices For decades film studies, therefore experimental film studies as well have been dealing…
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Diversity Versus Modesty – The Czech Contemporary Experimental Film Scene (Part One)
In his 2013 book The Subterranean River of Cinema (Ponorná řeka kinematografie) Martin Čihák experiments with an approach quite unique…
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Interaction – Alexandra Moralesová: Shuttered Cut
According to a few sinister newspaper headlines film has been dead for almost sixty years. Yet the debate on the…
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The Regions of Experience – Alice Růžičková: Biostructures
In some sense scientists, specifically cell biologists were the first experimental filmmakers. Their stunning movies of cells, tissues and embryos…
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Female Body Art – František Wirth: In nuce
Female nudity is a frequently used device in avant-garde film. Both male and female filmmakers have experimented with several different…
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All the Wild Horses – Zoltán Huszárik: Elegy
„I will not watch a horse-centered film. I want you to know, comrade Huszárik, I only watch person-centered films.”[1] This…
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Shifting boundaries – Kryštof Pešek: Dokumat
In response to the current popularity of generative design processes in which designers use algorithms to create a variety of…
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Protest – Martin Blažíček: Neo-B
Painters have long known that certain chemicals resist wet paint and can be used to create textural surface patterns. One…
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Transition – Vít Pancíř: Changing the Scene
The departure from accurate representation and the disappearance of the identifiable object in art started with impressionism. It favored the…
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Is the invisible visible? – Martin Blažíček: Test
“Is the invisible visible?” – was the first question addressed to Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen in the only interview the German…
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Hide and Seek – Hungarian Avant-garde Film Today (Part Two)
Melting pot Avant-garde film has always been interrelated with fine art, music and literature. Contemporary Hungarian experimental film is no…
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Hide and Seek – Hungarian Avant-garde Film Today (Part One)
Following the elimination of creative workshops and the restructuring of film theaters, museums and galleries became the primary forums for…
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Here And There – Gergő Somogyvári/Judit Feszt: Carta Azulejo
The work of the Somogyvári-Feszt duo is an experimental documentary film-mail which even among avant-garde films counts as rare hybrid.…
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When In Prague – Alexandr Hackenschmied: Aimless Walk – The Prague Castle
Alexandr Hackenschmied’s city symphonies deliberately challenge the promotional attitude represented by Svatopluk Innemann in Prague at Night (1928). By turning…
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Deliberately Damaged – Gyula Nemes: Lost World
Expired celluloid, deliberate imperfection, ten years of shooting with a handful of people – this is the making of Lost…
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Mobilization – Čeněk Zahradníček and Vladimír Šmejkal: A Soldier’s Story
In A Soldier’s Story silent film narrative meets avant-garde film experimentation. Čeněk Zahradníček and Vladimír Šmejkal’s joint project A Soldier’s…
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Obscene or Ethereal – Péter Lichter: Light Sleep
Light Sleep proposes several slippery subjects such as pornography, the interpretation of dreams and the theory of child sexuality. The…
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Connection – Milan Balog: 1.35
Sensitively selected moving photo(copie)s are the base of the narrative and technical structure of Milan Balog’s 1.35. The award-winning (Oberhausen) short…
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Continuity – Paulína Mačáková: Random Thought (of birds and assumption)
Paulína Mačáková’s 2008 work could easily be labeled as a “documentary” of avant-garde film history. Random Thought gently connects several…
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Time travel – Bruce Checefsky/György Gerő: Béla
Somewhat Hungarian, somewhat not, somewhat contemporary, somewhat not. In 2009 the American photographer and independent filmmaker Bruce Checefsky created an…
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Distillation – Zuzana Žabková: Für Elise – De profundis
Zuzana Žabková’s experimental (contemporary) dance films compound the features of the avant-garde imagist films with the attributes of the Eastern-Central-European…
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Recycling – Mira Gáberová: Forever
By changing the intensity of the emotional and sensual impact Mira Gáberová manages to smuggle several intellectual references in her…
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Slice – Divide – Multiply. Miklós Falvay: Run
Miklós Falvay, a former student and current teacher at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, created Run (Futta) in 2005 as a…
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Focus! – Martin Baran: Underpass – In Medias Reus
Martin Baran’s flings are attempts to create an „active film”. In his videos he plays with different signs which –…
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A homage to structuralism – Drahoslav Páluš: Static Movement – Metamorphoses
Whether deliberately or not, Drahoslav Páluš follows Warhol’s footsteps by recycling the images of mass culture. In his short found…
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Change of Scenery – Ľubomír Ďurček: Home
A handful of volunteers sewn into a huge bag are trying escape a forest to the nearest asphalt road in…
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Society Flips – Tibor N. Grosso: Digitalisation – Superteam
Tibor Nagy Grosso’s one minute shorts are mostly „society-flips”, a kind of experimental conversation starters, brief but suggestive reflections of…
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The Concept of Levitation – Vladimir Havrilla: Lift
Although theoreticians refer to Vladimir Havrilla as an iconic figure of Czechoslovak experimental film, few people are familiar with his moving…
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Oldschool at its Best – Martin Slivka: Water and Labor
Although Martin Slivka produced numerous moving pictures which are famous of their innovative use of film language, this national treasure…
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An Exercise in Remembering – Péter Lichter: Cassette
Péter Lichter is one of the few active contemporary experimental filmmakers in Hungary. This short documentary, shot on super 8…
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Descent into Hell – Ctibor Kovač: Fire River
Ctibor Kovač belongs to those „hobby-experimental-film makers” who, in between two more traditional documentaries or fiction movies, get a bit…
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Avoiding Labels – István Illés: track 32
There was a long and complex argument on the 10th Kecskemét Animation Filmfestival (2011) when the critics and the jury tried to…