General information

Call No.:

313-0-2:1/1

Part of series

HU OSA 313-0-2 Árpád Ajtony Personal Papers: Experimental and Documentary Films

Located at

Digital container #1 / No. 1

Digital ver. identifier

HU OSA 313-0-2_001-001

Original Title

[Surány]

Date of production

1972

Date

1972

Level

Item

Primary Type

Moving image

Language

Hungarian

Language Statement

No sound.

Duration

26 min. 8 sec.

Content

Form/Genre

Fiction film

Contents Summary

The film, working title Surány, is most probably an adaptation of the improvisational theater play The Breakfast of Adolf Kurtz. The play was performed at a sand pit in Surány (Pest County, Hungary) in August 1972 at an open-air avant-garde theatre festival organized by the Kassák Theater. The performance, played by the members of Péter Halász’s group seems to unfold around a rape. The raw, unedited footage documenting the performance survived, while the script and the sound reels didn't. The footage was edited into a silent film by OSA for the first time in 2017.

Context

Associated Names

Halász, Péter (None)

Ajtony, Árpád (None)

Subject / Coverage

Spatial Coverage

Hungary