Women’s perspective / Meeting: Selection of shorts by Hungarian female directors
Egy különc úr naplójából / From the Diary of an Eccentric Gentleman, dir: Ágnes Háy, 1972, 14’
Flirt, dir: Ildikó Enyedi, 1979, 25’
Szortírozott levelek / Assorted Letters, dir: Ágnes Kocsis, 2000, 33’
This section introduces more obscure works from the oeuvres of three important directors, Ágnes Háy, Ildikó Enyedi and Ágnes Kocsis. Films made by Háy and Enyedi at Balázs Béla Studio are cinematic experiments exploiting the flexibility of the short film format that boldly break with storytelling conventions. From the Diary of an Eccentric Gentleman (1972) takes humour lurking in simple forms to philosophical profundities, while Flirt (1978) demonstrates the inner and outer occurrences of hypnosis. Ágnes Kocsis’s Assorted Letters (2000) exposes the fragility of human relationships through a story that everyone has intimate personal experience of since 2020. The attentive viewer will be able to spot individual motifs and moods in these early shorts that reappear in the directors’ later feature films.
