The Joy of Light

György Kovásznai co-directs his last film “Reportrait” with Elek Lisziák, a series of interviews about various sociological subjects based on the concept of “Anima Veritae”.

Short animated by György Kovásznai and musicalized by the popular song "Ça ira" that illustrates through paintings, the events that made up the french revolution and its multiple founders.

A surrealistic cutout animated short.

Painted and drawn figures and shapes move to a soundtrack of rapidly changing radio broadcasts.

In the style of a diary, the film uses black and white photo retouching to show two good friends from Pest falling in love with a girl and finding themselves in a strange love triangle.

Screenplay Written by, Painted and Directed by György Kovásznai Music Compilation and Sound Editor: Péter Bársony Music Performed by Gábor Presser, Levente Szörényi, Zsuzsa Koncz, Kati Kovács, Máté Viktor, the LGT and the Hungária Bands Collaborators: János Czipauer, András Osvát, Miklós Papp, Béla Zsebényi, Katalin Kaim, Klára Kassai, and Frigyes Janotyik A subjective interpretation of the everyday life of the 1970s’ Budapest . It is an intriguing mixture of popular culture (music) and high art (composition of images). Kovásznai is not interested in telling a story; there is no linear narrative, the structure of the film is defined by the movements and transformations of the paintings to the rhythm of the music, generating a fundamentally audiovisual sensory experience.

Zsolt Mohai, an eccentric shop window decorator in his 40s, drops by Anna Parádi on his wedding day, asking her to phone his bride Klára Horváth and call off the event. Drama, discussions and musical numbers ensue over topics like romance, loyalty, ambition, and settling for a family life in a modern day city.

A series of vignettes depicting musicians, painters, and other artists in an amusing manner.

A passionate poet feels abandoned at the places of amusement in the Boulevard.

Animated look at an ever-changing portrait of a man and a woman

Shakespeare's Hamlet is rendered in exquisitely expressive pen drawings.

A gondolat, 1966 (50”)

Kovásznai György’s fourth short animation follows a cat and dog who walk to a museum to look at paintings, about cats and dogs

This etude made up of captured snaps having a sociographic impact and expressive photo-collages by Dezső Korniss is the satirical apotheosis of the single, working urban woman from the second half of the 1960s.

An experimental short film documenting the life of Hungarian citizens through city footage and animation.