István Orosz

On planet Perdide, an attack of giant hornets leaves young Piel alone in a wrecked car with his dying father. A mayday message reaches their friend Jaffar, an adventurer travelling through space. Onboard Jaffar’s shuttle are the renegade Prince Matton, his fiancée, and Silbad, who knows Perdide well. Thus begins an incredible race across space to save Piel.

In an effort to end family feuding, a young gypsy travels back in time to kill mammoths to ensure Hungary becomes rich by killing mammoths in order to create a massive oil reservoir. Things don't go entirely according to plan...

A nostalgia trip in the enigmatic labyrinth of the passed childhood.

The encounter can never happen between a man in the past (tense) and a girl in the present (tense) in the garden of times.

Lost visions, forgotten dreams, ancient images with magic.

Whispered to by an ancient tree, a young shepherd dreams of more than his simple existence among grass and sheep. The journey he embarks on brings him into contact with golden birds, a dragon and a fair damsel.

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

Documentary with animated sequences about that massive Hungarian exodus to the US which went on from the end of 19th century till the outbreak of WW1. The history of the nameless crowds presented in the film submerged under the surface of official history.

short animation

A typical apartment building in Budapest and their residents from the aspect of a young boy playing football sometime in the end of the 1980s at the time of the change of regime in Eastern Europe. Is there a way out from here? A geometrical paradox and a political parable at the same time.

Well-known, unknown and forgotten faces from all over the ages are rolling by in some very short minutes.

A short film by István Orosz that explores spiritual, meta-physical, psychological and philosophical themes on a cosmic scale.

An attempt to a reconstruct of a chess game between Alexander Bogdanov and Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin. Capri Italy. Tuesday April 28. 1908. The Villa of Russian Author Gorki.

Playful experimental animation on illusion, geometry, Escher and the micro/macro cosmos.

Short experimental animation by István Orosz.

Short animated film

The inspiration for the film was a four-line poem written by the late János Pilinszky (1921-1981), an outstanding figure of contemporary Hungarian poetry. Focusing on artistic portrayals of the Holy Virgin, photographic and animation media are combined to capture an atmosphere and convey a lyrical sentiment by means of the continually changing spectacle.

Animated Short film by István Orosz and Dóra Keresztes.

A three-minutes time-travel from a man's birth to his death, from the micro-cosmos to the macro-cosmos - and all the way back.

The Hungarian family make their best to entertain the German exchange-student with traditional Hungarian dishes. The rather insignificant head of the family tries to reach for the salt cellar but can't do it, while his family keeps on chatting and eating without noticing that someone has gone missing from the table.