Dr. Moreau

Polaroids

510 On a sleepy morning Eduardo Kac, Professor of Biology, cross-fertilized his own DNA with that of the petunia. From the poetry book of Márton Simon.

The Grey Machine

In 1921, an untitled text reminiscent of Edgar Allan Poe's writings was discovered in Boston. It was made by unknown creators, perhaps a techno-spiritualist cult of enthusiasts, for an automaton, that would attempt to model Poe's mind.

Light-Sleep

A boy's sleep is disturbed.

Rimbaud

Arthur Rimbaud's adventures are still the greatest mysteries of the history of literature. This film, which was written by three Hungarian poet, attempts to reconstruct the journeys of the French poet. Rimbaud is an experimental road movie, edited from 30 reels of super 8 film, shot by unknown families in the past century.

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

A collage crime movie from the first novel of Agatha Christie.

Frozen May

1990, after the fall. A man struggles to survive in the forest, living alone in a small cabin. One day he spots a mysterious child in an abandoned summer camp.

Empty Horses

If this is heaven, bring on the afterlife! The spirits of legendary Hungarian filmmakers Michael Curtiz and Gábor Bódy meet in a metaphysical screening room, while on the screen footage plays of classic twentieth-century films.

The Rub

A retelling of Shakespeare's play from within the mind of the protagonist. The psychedelic appeal of the film was created with hand painted and rotten 35 mm and 16 mm celluloid strips.

Slow Midnight Show

The film attempts to stimulate without dialogue and with not too exciting storyline, using only images, sounds, film-noir and usual horror elements.

The Philosophy of Horror: A Symphony of Film Theory

The Philosophy of Horror – A Symphony of Film Theory is an abstract adaptation of Noël Carroll’s influential film theoretical book of the same title (published in 1990), which is a close examination of the horror genre. Our film uses hand painted and decayed 35 mm film strips of the classic slasher movie A Nightmare on Elm Street (Wes Craven, 1984) and its sequel A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985).

Cassette

This short experimental documentary, shot on super 8, contains a soundtrack that was recorded by the film’s authors during a primary school class trip 24 years earlier.

Fourteen variations on the intimate

In early 2020, MUTA - International Festival of Audiovisual Appropriation and Cine Íntimo rescued and digitised a Peruvian archive of orphaned 8mm and Super 8 home movies. With the aim of restoring these lost memories, we sent the images around the world. This omnibus film is the result of the intervention of this material, by 14 experimental filmmakers. Fourteen perspectives and ways of experiencing appropriation. Fourteen variations on the intimate.

The Thing in the Coffin

An experimental reinterpretation of Dracula, this film fuses analog and digital decay-from Super 8 to 35mm-into a glitch-infused vision that transforms the novel's gothic eroticism into a haunting new audiovisual experience.

Nutrition Fugue

"Közért" (translation: "for the public") was a government owned chain of stores in Hungary, during the communist era (1948-1989). The word Közért is still used in the Hungarian language. Our film was made from the 35 mm celluloid raw footage of its advertisement: the film strips were digged in the soil, rotten with food and cut up in pieces.

Love Is A Piece of Paper Torn to Bits

This film was made during the second hungarian abstract film workshop: the students created a free association adaptation of the poem of Charles Bukowski. The film was made with direct animation technique, on 35 mm and 16 mm filmstrips. Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest.

Negative history of Hungarian cinema

Reconstructions of unrealized Hungarian films in cooperation with the greatest Hungarian film directors.