Media Game

A short experimental film; "An hommage to silent movies".

A video letter, created during the years of war in Croatia when communication with the rest of the world was difficult. It is addressed to the author's Hungarian and British friends. The author is sending electronic flashes with his hands, and his voice delivers the message in Hungarian and English.

Ivan Ladislav Galeta's first experimental film displays a narrative structure and a philosophic/mystical idea – we begin nowhere and we end in nothing, at the starting point. From a hidden position, the camera follows a man in a black coat who approaches passers-by asking directions without taking his hands out of his pockets. The passers lift their hands and point their fingers at the direction he uses to continue his way.

A video that uses Finnegans Wake as a structuring device to create a portrait of the farm Galeta retreated to in his final decade, where he focused on making the study of permaculture his ultimate 'artistic landscape'.