Film from Balázs Béla Studio Arkiv

The Balázs Béla Studio (BBS) was founded in Budapest 1961 by the Hungarian Film Academy's graduating class of 1961, the so-called "golden generation" of Hungarian filmmakers that included Pál Gábor, Sándor Sára, and István Szabó.

BBS was conceived as a workshop for young professionals to make an entrée into film production, but later it attracted a wide range of artists, writers, and musicians from the city's lively underground scene. Early productions by these young professional filmmakers show influences from the Nouvelle Vague and Cinéma Vérité, with a strong feel for documentary. The documentary movement, known as the Budapest School, mixed fiction with social documentary and was also formed within the BBS with the participation of filmmakers like the internationally acclaimed Béla Tarr.

This screening is part of Opening Hours and is organised in collaboration with Műcsarnok Kunsthalle in Budapest.The films were selected by Lívia Páldi (curator, writer), Miklós Erhardt (artist, writer) and Sebestyén Kodolányi (filmmaker, managing director of the BBS Foundation).

Miklós ERDÉLY: Version, 1981, 54'
Director of Photography: András Mész
The film, which was made in 1979 (and standardised in 1981), is a free interpretation of Krúdy Gyula's documentary novel entitled Eszter Solymosi of Tiszaeszlár (1931). The film seeks to explore what means the authorities may have employed towards convincing an overly sensitive and timid child - the son of the Rabbi of Tiszaeszlár - to give testament against the people of his own faith and how the fake confession becomes blurred with real memories through intensified fantasy.

With an introduction by Livia Paldi

Time: 5pm Thursday October 30
Place: Tap E Gamle Carlsberg Vej 15, 2500 Valby

A short film programme with films form Balázs Béla Studio in Budapest. The programme is compiled and introduced by Sebestyén Kodolányi, the managing director of the BBS Foundation.

Time: 1 November 2008 at 2.00-6.00 pm
Place: Cinemateket, Gothersgade 55, 1123 Copenhagen C.

The following films will be shown:

Swimming Pools
Instructor: István Ventilla
Hungary, 1963
15 min.
35mm. No dialog

New Years Eve
Instructor: Elemér Ragályi
Hungary, 1974
16 min.
35mm. No dialog

Partita
Instructor: Miklós Erdély
Hungary, 1974
16mm. No dialog
35 min.

Elegy
Instructor: Zoltán Huszárik
Hungary, 1965
35mm. No dialog
20 min

Arena
Instructor: János Tóth
Hungary, 1970
35mm. No dialog
23 min.

Birds
Instructor: András Szirtes
Hungary, 1981
35mm. No dialog
8 min.

Reflection
Instructor: Ákos Birkás
Hungary, 1976
35mm. Hungarian dialog
5 min.

Passion
Instructor: László L. Révész, János Sugár
Hungary, 1988
16mm. No dialog
7 min.

Don Giovanni
Instructor: Dobos Gábor, Halász Péter
Hungary
16mm. No dialog
54 min