Ever since her first screen role inKörhinta (Merry-Go-Round, 1955), which brought her immediate international recognition at the Cannes Film Festival, Mari Törőcsik (born 1935) has been the leading Hungarian screen actress. She received the Best Actress award at Cannes in 1971 for her role in Love (Szerelem; directed by Károly Makk) and again in 1976 for Déryne, hol van? (Mrs Déry, Where Are You?; directed … Read more

In this paper I focus on the audiovisual work of Andy Warhol as it was presented in the Warhol exhibition “Andy Warhol: Other Voices, Other Rooms” which took place in Amsterdam in 2007. By investigating the self-reflexive play with cinematic temporality performed upon the viewer I wish to address how a (sense of) “self” emerges from the multiple temporalities and … Read more

This paper will revisit the question of the pertinence and critical applicability of basic concepts of European film theory, and especially Gilles Deleuze’s notion of the cinematic time-image, in the age of global electronic media. It will be argued that the Deleuzean rationale of the mutually reversible cinematic time-image is highly relevant for coming to grips with the experience of … Read more

This paper investigates an example of the theater – film interface. Recent studies in mediality have given new impetus to the postsemiotic theories of adaptation and representational logic. Film theories have amply benefited from comparative investigations into the analogies and differences between theatrical and cinematic representational techniques. My focus here is on Shakespearean scholarship and the reinterpretations of the early … Read more

János Kende started work with Jancsó in 1965 and two years later became his favoured cinematographer. For 25 years, Kende was behind the camera on almost every feature that the director made. In addition, he also worked with other great names in Hungarian cinema, such as Zsolt Kézdi-Kovács, Márta Mészáros, Pál Gábor and others. His camerawork is particularly noted for … Read more

István Nemeskürty has played an important role in three major areas of Hungarian cinema: as studio head (until 1984); as film historian and author of Word and Image: History of the Hungarian Cinema (Budapest: Corvina Press, 1968; revised edition 1975); and, most recently, as head of the Hungarian Film Institute. Kinoeye here presents a previously unpublished interview by Graham Petrie, made in 1985. … Read more

Chico (2001), Ibolya Fekete’s second feature film, premiered at last year’s Karlovy Vary film festival, causing heated reactions for its depiction of the recent history of central Europe and especially the war in Croatia. Fekete, however, came away with the Best Director prize and the prize of the Ecumenical jury, and this year the film snapped up the Grand Prix from … Read more

Hajnal Németh is preoccupied with the visual, corporeal, and aural chasm opened up by the frequently invisible, dislocated or muted object proper of her works. Music, sounds, noises pour into the exhibition spaces constituting, as Don Ihde terms it, the shape-aspect of things and bodies; ?ashing images exhibit themselves on a stage-like construction as a dismembered narrative; movement caught in stagy frozenness … Read more

The paper discusses the perpetuation of unconventional stylistic features of the modern film, as well as its possibilities of introducing a new, existential meaning in the Hungarian film production of the 1970s and 1980s. New-narrative films experimenting with narrative forms display an ambition of the filmic medium to join other, extraneous formations (such as music, literature, theatre), fullling thus the modernist ideal that the film as … Read more

Rather than in terms of fiction or reality, Béla Tarr’s cinema can be perceived as a creative exploration that is neither realistic nor non-realistic, but the sum-total of our dealings with the world around. The absence of a storyline, non professional actors, found locations and long shots uninterrupted by editing, carefully thought through and choreographed at the same time, are the effect of this exploration. The … Read more