‘Short Films’ Archives
Five Borowczyk Shorts
One of the occupational hazards of studying central and eastern European cinema is actually getting to see many of the films in the first place - especially when moving off the beaten track and exploring short and animated films. Things have significantly improved thanks to the DVD revolution, but rights and materials availability and [...]
Elégia
Hungary, 1965, colour, 18 minsTucked away amongst the extras of Mokep's DVD of Zoltán Huszárik's extraordinary Szindbad (1971) is his first short film, the dialogue and narrative-free Elégia (1965), or Elegy.It's an 18-minute cine-poem about horses, first shown running carefree across a wide, grassy puszta, or Hungarian plain, before becoming [...]