Budapest Documentary

Milorad Krstić's video titled "Budapest" is a poetic documentary about the everyday life of a vibrant metropolis. It's a series of entertaining vignettes from a real city that we Budapestians encounter daily, yet repeatedly pass by with closed eyes, so preoccupied with our own troubles, or simply having become blind to the liberating humor of everyday life that could bring color to our repetitive, mechanical existence. True, what we see in the film is nothing more than what we're accustomed to: the irredeemable banality of everyday life is reflected in the densely edited short shots, but in these reflections—with sufficient self-irony—we can recognize our hurried, gawking, absent-minded selves as we traverse the city streets, and have a good laugh.

My Baby Left Me

This film is about a man who enjoyed his lover’s body too much. To the extent that he did not realize she had become a mere plaything for him. As the girl could not stand being an object in a love affair, she left him. Since then he has been lonely, living on his memories. All of sudden, his baby comes back to give him another chance, but in vain. He makes the same mistakes as he did before, but this time the girl doesn’t forgive him. She decides to change the rules of the game and starts to play with him like a cat with a mouse. The game gets more and more dangerous...
Hungarian short animation
Initial release: 1995, 8 min 15 sec, 35 mm, color, sans dialogue
Director: Milorad Krstic
Screenplay: Milorad Krstic
Animated by: Milorad Krstic
Music composed by: András Wahorn
Cast: Angela Roczkov, Ágnes Gyimesi, András Wahorn
Production Co: Varga Studio

Awards
Silver Bear Award at 45. International Berlin Film Festival 1995
The Best First Film Award at International Festival for Animated Films “Annecy 1995”
The Best Graphics, The Best First Film, Film and TV Critics Award at International Festival for Animated Films „Kecskemet 1996"

RUBENsremBRANDT
Virtual Exhibition

The title is a contraction of the names Rembrandt and Rubens, and the series of works were created directly after Milorad Krstić’s film Ruben Brandt, Collector was made. Krstić keeps surfing freely from one art reference to the next in his new paintings too. He lists significant artists and artworks, blending in references of film, painting and architecture in a way that all but blurs the borders between genres. The artist often uses compression and reconstruction.
Typical motifs of his fine arts oeuvre that he has been building for about 40 years now are masks replacing faces and faces growing out of masks, as well as “body-face combinations” with machines, animals, buildings or other works of art. The “creatures” of Krstić are often portraits of well known artists, scientists or politicians, which Krstić likes to call “self-portraits” with someone (Self-portrait with a model after Matisse), or after someone (Self-portrait after Da Vinci), for example. The end result is a “universal artistic self-portrait”, a kind of portrait unknown until now, which stands closer to artistic manifestations—indeed, the viewers of these works might see them as “art-portraits”, a kind of personal manifestation of Krstić’s ideas of art.

Theather

Az Ember Tragédiája

A Fizikusok

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