Tamás Waliczky

In the first version of "The forest", made as a computer animation, the image of the forest creates the impression of a three-dimensional space constructed from elements which themselves are only two-dimensional. The basis for the image is a black-and-white drawing of a bare tree.

The animation is about a small German village in a rainy day, and visualises the miraculous moment when all of a sudden time has been stopped.

Ali is a Hungarian film director (over 50, grey hair, not completely bald yet), who is no longer making films. The question is: what has happened to him? One day, he gets a phone call from Hong Kong, and decides to find an answer to the question in Mong Kok on the 37th floor.

Everything in this world follows the movement of a child, i.e. in a virtual manner with an optical angle of 360 degrees. In this way, the concept of linear perspective we have had since the Renaissance is replaced by a new system of perspective, the ‘water-drop perspective-system'. Question: is this film a sort of two-dimensional virtual reality? Answer: no, virtual reality means that we construct our artificial world. I am much more interested in the surrounding real world. In this case, it is the world of my daughter. - Tamás Waliczky