Balázs Béla Stúdió
Person Type:
organisation
Country of Birth:
Hungary
Biography:
The Béla Balázs Studio was born in 1959 as a grassroot initiative of young filmmakers engaged in the renewal of Hungarian cinematorgraphy, and became institutionalized in 1961 due to the support from the cultural policy-makers of post-56 consolidation.
In the 70s, the BBS, besides young filmmakers graduated from the Hungarian Film Academy, also started to admit “outsiders” in its ranks. Throughout the decade, the Studio was a site of passionate debates animating a progressive workshop atmosphere where experimental, conceptual tendencies competed with documentarist approaches engaged in a social transformation.
Breaking with the avant-guardist attitude, the BBS in the 80s became a free space of “institutional dissidence” characteristic of the time, and a major workshop of Hungarian video-art that by documenting the process of democratization contributed substantially to the deconstruction of state-socialism in Hungary.
Questioning its raison d’etre, the dominant cultural policies of the 90s doomed the workshop to slow atrophy. The Balázs Béla Studio signed its last production in 2005 and ceased to exist in 2010.
Producer
TITLE | TYPE | CREATION DATE | |
Looking for Dózsa |
experimental film |
1972 - 1973 |
Publisher
TITLE | TYPE | CREATION DATE | |
Relative Swingings | 1973 | ||
Triolets - 18 Variations for 3 Objectives and a Singer | 1980 - 1981 |
Studio
TITLE | TYPE | CREATION DATE | |
A fény képeiről |
documentary |
1989 | |
Attacks |
animation |
1977 | |
Begining |
animation |
1977 | |
Butterfly Scene |
animation |
1977 | |
Chase |
animation |
1973 | |
Civil MacBeth (Etüd 1. Emlékezés) |
experimental film |
1977 | |
Conversation II. - The Birth of Venus |
video art |
1985 - 1987 | |
Danse Macabre |
animation |
1991 - 1992 | |
Do You Know My Method? |
video art |
1998 | |
Dough |
animation |
1977 | |
English Numbers |
video art |
1991 | |
F.A.N. |
video art |
1990 | |
Face Scene |
animation |
1977 | |
Fall Back Scene |
animation |
1977 | |
Friends Scene |
animation |
1977 | |
From the Diary of an Excentric Gentleman |
animation |
1972 | |
Inter - Images |
experimental film |
1989 - 1990 | |
Invasion |
animation |
1977 | |
Kamera a pácban |
experimental film |
1992 | |
Mediology |
interview |
1990 | |
Metal Baby Scene |
animation |
1977 | |
Painting the Space, Project Buchberg |
experimental film |
1982 - 1983 | |
Privacy |
video art |
1985 | |
Relative Swingings |
experimental film |
1973 | |
Seven Seasons |
video art |
1991 | |
Seven Trials |
experimental film |
1981-11-23 - 1982 | |
Shit Scene |
animation |
1977 | |
Stereo Time |
interactive art |
1995 | |
Sword Fight Scene |
animation |
1977 | |
The Immortal Culprits |
video art |
1988 | |
The Media Were with Us! (summary of the symposium) |
broadcast, conference |
1990 | |
Titles |
animation |
1977 | |
Triolets - 18 Variations for 3 Objectives and a Singer |
experimental film |
1980 - 1981 | |
Two Half Pictures |
video art |
1990 | |
Újlak Group, Antology 1989-90 |
documentation, exhibition, performance art |
1991 | |
ViewPoint |
video art |
2001 |