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György Kovásznai

György Kovásznai

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Biography

György Kovásznai was a Hungarian painter, animation director, and writer. A unique feature of his animated films is the frame-by-frame painting and drawing under the camera, which gives the paintings a moving, constantly changing, bravura quality.

Known For

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Ez Csak Divat

Bubble Bath
7.0

Zsolt Mohai, an eccentric shop window decorator in his 40s, drops by Anna Parádi on his wedding day, asking her to phone his bride Klára Horváth and call off the event. Drama, discussions and musical numbers ensue over topics like romance, loyalty, ambition, and settling for a family life in a modern day city.

Bubble Bath

1980
From Dawn to Dusk
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This etude made up of captured snaps having a sociographic impact and expressive photo-collages by Dezső Korniss is the satirical apotheosis of the single, working urban woman from the second half of the 1960s.

From Dawn to Dusk

1967
Hamlet
5.0

Shakespeare's Hamlet is rendered in exquisitely expressive pen drawings.

Hamlet

1967
Riportré
9.0

György Kovásznai co-directs his last film “Reportrait” with Elek Lisziák, a series of interviews about various sociological subjects based on the concept of “Anima Veritae”.

Riportré

1982
Monologue
7.0

A surrealistic cutout animated short.

Monologue

1963
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6.3

A series of vignettes depicting musicians, painters, and other artists in an amusing manner.

Tales from the World of Art

1965
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How a man feels when he sees a beautiful nude...

Young Man Playing The Guitar At The Old Masters’ Gallery

1964
Mirror Images
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Kovásznai György’s fourth short animation follows a cat and dog who walk to a museum to look at paintings, about cats and dogs

Mirror Images

1964
Memory of the Summer of ’74
7.0

Screenplay Written by, Painted and Directed by György Kovásznai Music Compilation and Sound Editor: Péter Bársony Music Performed by Gábor Presser, Levente Szörényi, Zsuzsa Koncz, Kati Kovács, Máté Viktor, the LGT and the Hungária Bands Collaborators: János Czipauer, András Osvát, Miklós Papp, Béla Zsebényi, Katalin Kaim, Klára Kassai, and Frigyes Janotyik A subjective interpretation of the everyday life of the 1970s’ Budapest . It is an intriguing mixture of popular culture (music) and high art (composition of images). Kovásznai is not interested in telling a story; there is no linear narrative, the structure of the film is defined by the movements and transformations of the paintings to the rhythm of the music, generating a fundamentally audiovisual sensory experience.

Memory of the Summer of ’74

1974
Metamorphoses
5.5

Animated look at an ever-changing portrait of a man and a woman

Metamorphoses

1965
The City Through My Eyes
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An experimental short film documenting the life of Hungarian citizens through city footage and animation.

The City Through My Eyes

1971
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Várakozni jó

1969
Ça ira - The song of the french revolution
9.0

Short animated by György Kovásznai and musicalized by the popular song "Ça ira" that illustrates through paintings, the events that made up the french revolution and its multiple founders.

Ça ira - The song of the french revolution

1973
Wavelengths
7.0

Painted and drawn figures and shapes move to a soundtrack of rapidly changing radio broadcasts.

Wavelengths

1971
Nights in the Boulevard
6.6

A passionate poet feels abandoned at the places of amusement in the Boulevard.

Nights in the Boulevard

1972
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A film based on his new film concept called anima veritae, and it was the first among his other tentative films.

Blossoming No. 3369

1971
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6.5

In the style of a diary, the film uses black and white photo retouching to show two good friends from Pest falling in love with a girl and finding themselves in a strange love triangle.

Diary

1966
The Joy of Light
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Some fascinating paintings, photoes and animated pictures tell about the pleasure which a miner may feel when coming up to the light after the dangers in a mine.

The Joy of Light

1965
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A gondolat, 1966 (50”)

A gondolat

1966