collages by Sándor Reisenbüchler

Since the mid-1960s, Hungarian animation filmmaker Sándor Reisenbüchler has consistently built his oeuvre of collage films around the central theme of humanity’s responsibility to culture, the environment and nature. The counterculture of the sixties, the anti-war sentiment and environmentalism of the hippie movement and the Beat Generation were the main intellectual foundations for Reisenbüchler’s fast-paced animated films.

The exhibition focuses primarily on the ecocritical aspect of Reisenbüchler’s oeuvre, presenting a selection of his films and collages and photomontages created for the animated films recently discovered and archived in the director’s estate. The ecological crisis is a central theme in Reisenbüchler’s animated films, appearing in his “modern fairy tales” based on Central and Eastern European folk art, and a constant theme in his films based on science fiction literature, drawing on pop art, op-art and Russian avant-garde tendencies, through to his humorous and satirical apocalyptic visions of the 1990s essay films.

Dates:

Sunday, June 8, 2:00-6:00 PM

Monday, June 9, 2:00-6:00 PM

Tuesday, June 10, 12:30-7:00 PM

Wednesday, June 11, 10:00 AM-6:00 PM

Thursday, June 12, 12:30-6:00 PM

Friday, June 13, 12:30-6:00 PM

Saturday, June 14, 10:00 AM-6:00 PM

Address: Library Bonlieu