<nettime> fwd: A la recherche de l'exposition perdue

[Janos Sugar <sj@c3.hu>]

András Szirtes's Film Diary 1979-2004

A la recherche de l'exposition perdue

OSA presents András Szirtes's Film Diary 
1979-2004: In search of exposition lost. Opening 
on September 10, the exhibition at Galeria 
Centralis presents the films,  drawing sketches, 
written notes and images selected by experimental 
filmmaker András Szirtes, who has been making 
films since the late 1960s. For the duration of 
the exhibition, Szirtes's films will be screened 
every evening from 7 pm with the active 
participation of the filmmaker.

Szirtes writes:
"Some write diaries, others photograph them. In 
1979, having had directed a number of 
experimental films of international acclaim 
(Suburb, Birds, Dawn) and with about ten years of 
filmmaking experience, I wondered: what if I 
started keeping a diary on film tape, by way of 
"my fountain pen is my camera", or "Man with the 
Movie Camera"?

I left it to my instincts to help the material 
find its own form. I filmed for 25 years, from 
1979 to 2004, first with a movie camera and then 
with a video camera. What I had in mind was a 
series of 30-minute etudes, totalling 48 
interrelated pieces which, together, would 
constitute a film epic of precisely 24 hours in 
length.

The exhibition presents my drawing sketches, 
written notes and images selected from the nearly 
1.5 million frames. The 40 films I have made will 
also be screened in chronological order. These 
include Diary Parts 1 to 16 which, over the 
decades, have gained their final form."

http://szirtesfilm.hu/

OSA Archivum / Galeria Centralis - 1051 Budapest, Arany János u. 32.
Tue, 09/10/2013 - 18:00 - Sun, 10/20/2013 - 18:00

http://www.osaarchivum.org/events/Andr%C3%A1s-Szirtes%E2%80%99s-Film-Diary-1979-2004-%C3%80-la-recherche-de-lexposition-perdue



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