Gábor Ulrich
Directing
Biography
Gábor Ulrich is a Balázs Béla Prize-winning animation director, artist and art teacher. His experimental films have been featured at animation festivals in over 50 countries. He has worked as a guest lecturer at various institutions, currently, he is a lecturer at Budapest Metropolitan University. His works have been exhibited in Hungary and several European countries. His artwork can be found in both Hungarian and foreign collections. He has received several national and international awards for fine art and film. Some of his most notable films include Foreign Body (2002), Before (2005), What Does One Need to Know in Order to Train Dogs? (2012), Dune (2020), Rekonstrukt (2023) and Capriccio (2025).
Known For
Sounds as witnesses. They blurr into memories, half-dreams, it is undecided if they are real or not. A fluctuation between imagination and reality.
Dune
In 1923, Andor Weininger, a Hungarian-born artist, musician and leader of the Weimar Bauhaus group, put down on paper the first animated film script for a Hungarian animated film, but the abstract, all-artistic work would not be realised until exactly one hundred years later.
Rekonstrukt
A tiny bird restores the pianist's final hope by revealing the music hidden in everyday moments.
Capriccio
He saw nymphs a few minutes ago, but now there is only rain.