Posts Tagged ‘Zoltán Huszárik’
Capriccio
Hungary, 1969, colour, 16 mins. Ostensibly a non-narrative study of various aspects of a rural winter, this short film by one of modern Hungarian cinema's greatest visual poets has all the spellbinding qualities of his better-known feature debut Sindbad (Szindbád, 1971), but here allied to a winning sense of humour that's never quite [...]
Current
Sodrásban Hungary, 1963, black and white, 90 mins Also known as In the Current, this was the debut feature by the 30-year-old István Gaál, and has subsequently been recognised as one of the earliest films of an authentic Hungarian 'new wave'. Gaál had spent two years (1959-61) studying film at the Centro Sperimentale in Rome, and Current [...]
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 [...]