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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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…