Uljana Quartet – Hungarian music film

Director: Anna Korom

Cserepes Károly – Hungarian music film

Director: Gábor Karcis, Mátyás Kálmán

MORDÁI: Last Hour – Hungarian music film

Director: Gábor Reisz, Bálint Szimler

Dresch Vonós Quartet – Hungarian music film

Director: Attila Damokos

The co-creation of director Anna Korom, cinematographer Flóra Fecske and the Uljana Quartet is set in the home of a multi-generational family. With a style that is equally raw in the manner of a documentary and gentle, the film depicts the intimacy and miscellany of emotions that mark day-to-day life, paying particular attention to the women in the family. This musical film captures the small moments of living together and the big turning points in life in all their undramatic and beautiful splendour. The family’s story is told through nine songs, performed live, interwoven with moments from the Uljana Quartet’s concert recorded in the same flat. The film was directed by Anna Korom in close collaboration with the band.

The music of Károly Cserepes is as exciting and diverse as the person and career of the man himself. At the concert, visual artist Gábor Karcis and director Mátyás Kálmán used 3D mapping technology to project archival and modern video footage on the creepers and foliage of the night-time botanical garden – or on Károly Cserepes himself.

MORDÁI are at the forefront of the new wave of folk revival. In this film by Gábor Reisz and Bálint Szimler, the members of the band, who have already proven themselves in several formations, haunt the deserted corridors and rooms of Hotel Gellért. Simultaneously eerie and playful, the shots may bring in mind the films of David Lynch and the empty halls of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, and are a perfect match for the music of MORDÁI.

Everything is different at night: the rules change, as does the atmosphere, the meaning of sounds. Dreamlike, sophisticated and modern, this concert film by Attila Damokos is the perfect embodiment of Mihály Dresch’s ethno jazz. The legendary musician and his string quartet play among the neon-lit statues of Epreskert at night, and their jazz, which beautifully integrates elements of Hungarian folk music, comes to life.

This film screening of the Bartók Spring is presented by Müpa Budapest as a joint event with Hangvető and Music Hungary.

Supported by the National Film Institute, Hungary.