Reisenbüchler 90! - screening and discussion
The Műcsarnok's exhibition Vision, Gesture, Experiment... focuses specifically on auteur animation, a strong and dominant field in the history of Hungarian animation as a whole, but one that is least known to the general public.
The great dreamers of the first room of the exhibition, entitled Vision, - Áron Gauder, József Gémes, Marcell Jankovics and Sándor Reisenbüchler - are emblematic figures of Hungarian animation with a mission, and their work has in common the affirmation and representation of the miracle of creation, while at the same time fearing for the future of civilisation. This year, Sándor Reisenbüchler would have been 90 years old, so we commemorate his exceptional life's work with a screening and a discussion.
Reisenbüchler 90! - screening and discussion
PROGRAM:
The Year of 1812, 1972, 10 min, dir.: Sándor Reisenbüchler
Panic, 1975, 10 min, dir.: Sándor Reisenbüchler
Peacekeeping expedition to Mars, 1983, 20 min, dir.: Sándor Reisenbüchler
Farewell, little island, 1987, 12 min, dir.: Sándor Reisenbüchler
Green advice for every day, 1993, 5 min, dir.: Sándor Reisenbüchler
Ecotopia, 1995, 7 min, dir.: Sándor Reisenbüchler
Schedule
Round table discussion:
Participants:
Zoltán Bacsó, Béla Balázs Award-winning animation cinematographer
Anna Ida Orosz, animation film historian, National Film Institute - Film Archive
M Éva Tóth, moderator, curator of the exhibition Vision, Gesture, Experiment
"Sándor Reisenbüchler, the Great Outsider, dedicated his whole life to artistic animation filmmaking. After studying linguistics and literature, he graduated as a documentary film director at the Academy of Theatre and Film Arts. He always claimed that he could neither paint nor draw, yet he was already at the start of his career in the 1960s, when he fundamentally defined the graphic character of Hungarian animation. He invented for himself a kind of collage animation and film montage technique that had its origins in Russian avant-garde art and in the expressive tools of German expressionism between the two world wars.He rejected the Disney approach to cartooning, which is considered a classic, except for the American master's early black-and-white works. He never made a so-called commercial film and animated his films directly under the tape recorder. He also selected and edited his own dynamic soundtracks for his works. He was an expert on Eastern philosophies and considered himself one of the last, lonely representatives of hippy and pop culture.
He was a committed conservationist who believed that we are not alone in the universe. As a writer and thinker, he was mostly concerned with the aesthetic and moral problems of the present, the crisis of culture and the artistic apocalypse of the millennium.
In the mid-nineties, after receiving several prestigious awards, he was awarded the Kossuth Prize. In 2002, he retired from filmmaking with his "montage fantasy" The Moment of Light. His unfortunate premature death prevented him from spending his old age meditating and, as he would have liked, "learning"...
Sándor Reisenbüchler died in April 2004 at the age of sixty-nine".
M Éva Tóth
Kunsthalle Budapest
The largest exhibition hall in Budapest, in Heroes Square, just the opposite the Museum of Fine Arts.
