György Kézdy

As part of the Temps d'Images festival, TRAFÓ Budapest produced 'bildtheatre' performances titled RECYCLEd, experimenting with the relationship between theatre and film, exploring the analogies of recycling, which in this context refers to any cyclically repeated notion. The dramaturgies of the productions were shaped by themes, according to which their far-fetched ideas were transformed and thus became open to further use, i.e., symbioses formed between them when they were recycled. These fictional etudes by Pater Sparrow were short sensations based on dialogues, represented by strange characters, in some shifted spaces and times and in surreal settings, teeming with visual allegories and codes.

A bohemian circus mouse has had enough of the spotlight and the magician who conjures him up from the top hat every day. Using a nailfile he escapes his cage and embarks on a great journey.

The fate of a Hungarian Jewish family throughout the 20th century.

A man sleeping is haunted by surreal and everyday images: a grotesque dream-scape of the socialist countryside.

On the road between Enyed and Felvinc, on the bank of a stream, stand two huge willow trees. They are a historical memory. This memory is recalled in the story, from the time of the Kuruc-Laban war. It shows how the students of the college saved the town.

Hungary, 1950s. József Pelikán, who works as a dam keeper on the Danube, meets by chance Zoltán Dániel, an old friend whom he saved from death years before and who is now a powerful politician.

Gedeon is a young, ambitious detective. Three women have disappeared and he strongly believes that there’s direct connection between them. All three of them were driving lonely and have disappeared in the same region. After a lenghty discussion Gedeon gets the permission from his boss for going on patrol with his colleague in that area.

In modern Hungary, con artist Bender Oszkár and his motley crew - Barangó and a band of small-time schemers - embark on a series of outrageous scams to track down an “illegal” millionaire and seize ten million for themselves. As they exploit every trick in the book - fake charities, crooked roulette tables, forged documents - their madcap pursuit of easy riches exposes the absurdities and corruptions of contemporary life, with Bender’s fate hanging on whether his “great maneuver” will pay off or blow up in his face.

After the World War I, enthusiastic young people found the intellectual group of Hungarian Communist Party. Their aim is to propagate the communist ideology to the people and get the workers on their side. They have fierce discussions on the new ideas, though their movement is not very successful. They clash with their opposition, attempt to lead people to the Red Army, but without success.

The main character of this film reminiscent of political writing is Laci, the young and ambitious factory worker. He lives with his brother's family. After an unsuccessful attempt to escape from his native country and the prison sentence which follows it he gets employed by Pray, the progressive thinker, at a newly established computer centre. It is here that Laci learns to know Anna, the new-leftist university student, daughter of the general manager. Tóth, although he does not favour their relationship, does not oppose it either.