
“If I am unexpectedly questioned: “what is experimental film?” – my first reaction is defense. I take the question as…
“If I am unexpectedly questioned: “what is experimental film?” – my first reaction is defense. I take the question as…
With its cryptic atmosphere, sci-fi like images and unearthly music, Bácskai Lauró’s 1963 short piece is a truly playful representative…
Even though Hungary has got a rich and diverse avant-garde film culture, it seems to have almost no abstract film…
„I will not watch a horse-centered film. I want you to know, comrade Huszárik, I only watch person-centered films.”[1] This…
Melting pot Avant-garde film has always been interrelated with fine art, music and literature. Contemporary Hungarian experimental film is no…
Following the elimination of creative workshops and the restructuring of film theaters, museums and galleries became the primary forums for…
The work of the Somogyvári-Feszt duo is an experimental documentary film-mail which even among avant-garde films counts as rare hybrid.…
Expired celluloid, deliberate imperfection, ten years of shooting with a handful of people – this is the making of Lost…
Light Sleep proposes several slippery subjects such as pornography, the interpretation of dreams and the theory of child sexuality. The…
Somewhat Hungarian, somewhat not, somewhat contemporary, somewhat not. In 2009 the American photographer and independent filmmaker Bruce Checefsky created an…
Miklós Falvay, a former student and current teacher at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, created Run (Futta) in 2005 as a…
Péter Lichter is one of the few active contemporary experimental filmmakers in Hungary. This short documentary, shot on super 8…
There was a long and complex argument on the 10th Kecskemét Animation Filmfestival (2011) when the critics and the jury tried to…