Bori Máté & Péter Lichter

Nutrition Fugue | 4 minutes

“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 35mm celluloid raw footage of its advertisement: the film strips were digged in the soil, rotten with food and cut up in pieces.

The Silent Spring Seahorse | 8 minutes

The silent spring seahorse is a personal documentary about childhood, tales and the process of remembering.

The Headless Appearance | 2 minutes

The Headless Appearance is a hand painted film made from the negatives of old family photos. It is an abstract memento of the passing time.

8th October 2016 | 2 minutes

Népszabadság used to be Hungary’s largest opposition daily and one of the most vocal critics of the government. Its editorial staff was suspended on 8th October 2016 without advance warning, under suspicious circumstances. This film was made from the pieces of the last issue.

Some of the Sensations | 4 minutes

This film examines the relationship between the 1950’s movie gimmicks and the contemporary blockbusters through the synesthesia of the classical abstract cinema.

“Bay’s highest inspirations are those of a virtually experimental filmmaker of pure sensation; the rush of sensation is also a temptation for experimental filmmakers who often don’t keep their own images onscreen very long (cf. Stan Brakhage).”
(Richard Brody, The New Yorker)

Non-Places: Beyond the Infinite | 6 minutes

Marc Augé’s essay (Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity) meets with Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey in some Hungarian highway rest areas.

No Signal Detected | 2 minutes

Rhythmical combat of digital and chemical decay.

George’s Poem | 2 minutes

Paranoid poetry about galactic conspiracy, futuristic politics and hidden meaning. Hungary, 2018.
35 mm film strips and magic marker: a Hungarofuturist movie.

Le Pont Mirabeau | 2 minutes

This film was made during the first hungarian abstract film workshop: the students created a free association adaptation of the poem of Guillaume Apollinaire. The film was made with direct animation technique, on 35 mm filmstrips. The film painting was created by the students of Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest. Apollinaire was the pope of avant-garde: he cultivated chance, artistic chaos, and created the word and concept of Surrealism. This workshop experiment conducted with four students was very similar to the Surrealist game known as the ‘exquisite corpse.’