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Program Overview
Remembering ‘56
Miklós Jancsó Tribute
Red and White
Electra, My Love
The Round-Up
Winter Wind
Red Psalm
God Walks Backwards
The Lord’s Lantern...
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In the late 80s/early 90s, Jancsó made a series of films that explored the use of television imagery as means of making his legendary shots even more visually complex. Frequently positioning monitors within his frames — sometimes several within one shot — it was if he were attempting to create a montage counterpoint within the frame itself. Perhaps the most remarkable of these films was God Walks Backwards, an eerie prophecy of the impending collapse of the Soviet Union and the fall of Gorbachev made several months before the actual coup itself. Waiting for a film they’re working on to start up again, two members of the production wander around a seemingly deserted mansion, watching news reports of the unfolding events in Moscow and the assassination (!) of Mikhail Gorbachev. Other characters weave in and out, wondering aloud about the implications of all this for Hungary while the air is filled with bits of documents obviously being shredded at a manic pace. Along with his good friend Béla Tarr's later Sátántango, God Walks Backwards is offers a provocative fresco on the end of communism.
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