Politics of Montage. Neo-Avant-Garde Traits in Hungarian Experimental Films (original) (raw)

In the present paper I examine the so called neo-avantgarde films made in Balázs Béla Studio, Budapest, Hungary, between seventies and eighties. These films eventually were made not by professional film directors, but by artists who were active in many branches of art, e.g. conceptualism, happening, performance , experimental painting, photo and literature etc. They were focusing on materiality of film, geometric abstraction and seriality, intermediality, experimental montage and renewing of the classical tradition of allegorical montage, new combinations of sound and image etc. Naturally, these procedures were not permitted in mainstraim film industry, not to mention the fact that they were not acceptable from the point of view of the ideology of social realism. The question is how these films tried to improve the double criticism the targets of which were the hegemon ideology in politics and the hegemon forms of reality.

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